DeForest Sanabria
 

Hi everyone,

I saw this set listed on the big auction site (no. 170303835259), and was wondering if anyone was familiar with it. It is a 27-inch DeForest-Sanabria made in 1961 from what I could research.

I don't know if there's any service info out there for these, as they seemed to be a small company mainly serving Chicago. I am looking for opinions on whether this set is worth getting and how difficult it may be to restore.

Thanks,

Ryan

Even if you don't go for this set, you will enjoy reading about Sanabria:
http://www.tvhistory.tv/Sanabria.htm

Thinking it over, I think I'm going to pass on it only because of it's size - the only room I have to put it in is "under construction" right now.

I hope somebody saves this set - it appears to be a last year of production model and the last enterprise DeForest was involved with (and possibly Sanabria too.)

Good lord he was a busy guy!

That cabinet is really interesting.

John

I had that model as a teen ager . I'ts a big monster.
But, I love the cabinet.
Below off to the side is a small speaker. You can put your nick nacks below, and, there is a 110v 7 watt lamp to light up that compartment.
I had been in touch with this owner, but, can't seem to get enough info on it.
It looks like it may have a broken pix tube. Ouch. That's a 27" set, and, very rare.
Wish I had a way of picking it up.
Bill Cahill

Yeah, it's relisted for the same price, and without being able to see if it is complete and has a good/rebuildable tube, no thanks. Not for $100.

Sweet! One of a kind cabinet for sure. The speaker grille looks like a wooden heatsink fin or something! Reminds me of an automobile of the time. Guess which....

27" ??? Must weigh a ton.

Have you checked that link recently? It seems to be leading nowhere.
Bummer! I would have liked to read about the TV.

That's worrisome. It appears that they forgot to renew their domain name.

John

I checked it just before posting - it's Tom Genova's site -I'm sending him an email right away

Tom Genova says its a problem with switching hosting companies - his old company pulled the plug too quickly and now he has to upload the backup from an old computer - it will take a few days until tvhistory.tv is back online.

Tom Genova's site is back up:

http://www.tvhistory.tv/Sanabria.htm

set is still here
 

A long while has passed since this tv was offered at auction, but it's time to dust off the topic as I still have it. A sale at the current auction is unlikely, but I'd certainly like to restore it otherwise.

Gene

DeForest TVs were sold in plush TV salesrooms in Chicago's North Shore Communities, including Deerfield Illinois where I lived. The sets were assembled with the labor of Sanabria's American Television School where paying students provided free labor to the company! The sets were far from marvelous but the set's warrantees promised the moon.
Sanabria himself was also linked to picture tube manufacturing at National Video in Chicago which, in cahoots with Motorola, developed the unspectacular 23EGP22 rectangular color CRT using a black & White CRT envelope.

Here an interesting true story.
The one I had I found in the trash in Harper Woods, Mich. where I was living at my parent's house. I didn't know how to fis it, and, it had a very dim horizontal white line, though it had audio reception.. I ended up throwing it back out. Sam's didn't have a schematic on the set, and, American Television didn't even list the model in its' line up.
Exit to about 6 years ago. Another one came up, and, the dealer said it was in Harper Woods, Mich. Too far for me to go. Yet, I contacted them, and, they let me call them on the phone.
They told me this was her original tv., and, the set I found down the same block was actually her mother's set.

That really intrigued me. These were monster sets, and, that 27" tube took up alot of space, and, still stuck out the back of the set.
I've also since then found they made the same general set in both 21", and, 24".
Looked the same. Just smaller.....
The chassis, as I remember, was copper plated, but, cheaply built. I think it only had 16 tubes, plus, picture tube. It was a transformer operated set...
I think they were actually built in the mid 50's. The tube line up included 6DQ6, 6AX4, 1B3, 5U4, 3 video I F 's, and, one audio I F.
Had a Sarkes Tarzian drum tuner. Great timer/
6" speaker.
Bill Cahill

The one I remember working on one that had the chassis mounted upside down on the top of the cabinet. It had a tranformer and selenium rectifiers. It had a Standard Coil tuner that had the odd turret type UHF tuner. Milwaukee was a UHF town, real early in the game.