And yet another unknown CT-100
 

#302 one owner set claims the seller.
Gassy CRT

http://cgi.ebay.com/RCA-CT-100-Origi...item35a8789c27

Interesting. Very interesting. Very unusual. Out of the ordinary. Strange. Not common.

Two CTC2's on the bay at the same time.

50's vintage color sets are not my passion, BUT, I think I will watch this one - hells bells I might even bid on this one - I have relatives who live right near there who could "snatch" the set and hold it for me until I get motivated to go after it.

Just a thought??

Given that Ann Arbor is so close, I might be tempted to bid on it also. I doubt that I'll make the reserve though. If anyone here decides to bid on it let me know and I'll bow out. I don't want to drive the price up for someone who seriously wants it.

John

O.K. The temptation was too much given how close it is to me. I'm one of the bidders. It looks like there is a lot of early interest, but none reaching the reserve yet.

John

GAWD I wish I had the money to get that right now. I want one of these more than just about anything else.....maybe I'll get lucky one day.

Can't necessarily tell much until the final 5 or 6 seconds of the auction, when automated snipe bids kick in.

Phil "not bidding" Nelson

I believe you. I've used countdown.ebay.com to watch bids coming in. I do use an automatic snipe though. It helps keep me from bidding more than I promised myself I would.

John

Why bother? The CRT is bad, and we all know they are unobtanium since the rebuild effort has been scrapped. The chances of finding a usable tube are also next to zilch. I could see it if you had a known good tube waiting in the wings...

It's alot of cash to spend on something you may NEVER get to see work.

just sayin'...

These things are jumping out of the woodwork lately. Who knows, I may stumble on one in one of my boss's barns.

Hi TV Engineer,

Don't give up yet on 15G rebuilding.

Here in France, a 15G ETF donor CRT has been rebuilt, it was a severe leaker and is for now, vacuum tight - No neck "Neon" glow.

RGB + white raster testing results should be seen next weeek, and if sucessful, the CRT will be shipped in time for the ETF Convention 2010.

Just a small message of hope to say that work is still in progress on the 15G worldwide and that someone, somewhere will succeed.

Best Regards

Jhalphen
Paris/France

There must be alot of collectors near Ann Arbor, or else there is something especially attractive about this CTC2.

John

I totally understand that, but, I still want one. I know the right people when it comes to the CRT so it's not totally unobtanium, just VERY expensive. I also want one for the history factor.:yes: I also would like to have one example of every color chassis RCA made up to about CTC 16. Right now I only have a 4, 5 and a 9. A 7 is also on my "must have" list.

Ditto what Jerome said!

Even John Folsom and myself have not thrown in the towel. We have just put things on the back burner, while we to try and work out some of the wrinkles.

We know how to rebuild guns. We have stems that work pretty well. We just need to work on the issues of cost and finding and sealing leaks.

Between the French effort and the USA effort, we WILL be successful in the end. It is just a matter of time before we have the right recipe.

Right now we are keeping our fingers crossed that RACS is successful. Everybody just needs to hang in there. John and I are conficent that it can be done.

Too many of these things coming up lately, it's time to talk to the wife about a second mortgage...:yes:

You never know. Just having one is worth it alone, even with a dead CRT. There may be a working rebuild process that is affordable. Plus, It's a museum piece.

I second that. :P

Jerome,
I am curious. Will the RACS rebuilt 15G be flying first class or travelling in the cargo hold?

Hi Terry,

IF we get to that stage, (should know tomorrow or tuesday) i will do whatever it takes.

In the old days (pre-2003) i could have baby-sitted it to NYC in 3h45 with the Concorde, now you wait 4 hours to be searched naked by a spanking-new microwave X-Ray scanner + 9-10 hours in the air ...progress!

Best Regards

jhalphen/Paris

I'm sure everyone wishes you luck. Bringing it in the passenger cabin will help protect against temperature change and hard knocks, but air travel still involves some pressure changes -- perhaps a good real-world test of your sealing methods :)

Phil Nelson

You could always make the trip by boat, I enjoy mixing busness with pleasure whenever possible.

Phil,
Yes, those were my thoughts, too.
In the cargo hold there would be at least two temperature and pressure cycles before deplaning at JFK.
I always feel pretty crappy after that hop and I'm in the cabin. If the 15G's seal makes it intact, it will probably last for a while.

Went for $5600.:smoke:

Who's the winner????????????????

Not me, if I raised the bids, it was only for a microsecond.

John

Not me. I went to bed early last night. I must be getting old.

P.S.
I talked to Jerome last night. He may be grounded in France by the Icelandic ash cloud.
Shouldn't we be prepared for his 15GP22 presentation via the internet at the 2010 ETF convention?

If Jerome's presentation consists of Powerpoint screens, as many do, a two-way Internet videoconference isn't absolutely necessary. He can email the Powerpoint file to ETF in advance, to be displayed onsite for his segment. If his narration is already written out, then a proxy at the conference can read it. If not, Jerome can address the audience extempore via speakerphone from France, and say "next slide" when it's time for a new slide.

Questions & answers could also be done via speakerphone. Unless an answer requires him to draw pictures or hold something up to show the audience, displaying a picture of someone's talking head doesn't add much to the experience.

Just some thoughts . . .

Phil

Or a Skype camera connection from Jerome.

As a backup plan, Jerome is sending photos and notes which Bob Galanter will present. But I have confidence Jerome will be here in person, in spite of that pesky volcano!

They said on the radio this morning that they hope to have more than half of the flights back in the air so he might just make it.

I found it interesting in the item description to see the statement that the owner's father had had a television repair business since "the 1040s" to 1960. I'm sure that was a typo; after all, television hadn't even been thought of 900+ years ago. Oh well. I didn't notice the original post date. If it was anywhere near April 15, the seller might have been thinking about his income tax return, which is form 1040.

Maybe the TVs of the 1040's were used to watch the first airing of the iconic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Christmas special (with Herbie the dentist elf, et al).

If one looks carefully at the opening graphics, one will see "COPYRIGHT MCLXIV......." - 1164!

Not I. My bid sat there as the high bid for about a week, until the last minute as usual. I was almost afraid I was going to win it, and I have no idea how I was going to get it safely to California. Fortunately, I was outbid at the end, seriously outbid. Silly me.

Same here, my tiny little $3500 bid was fleeting as well. :smoke:

The price of this TV doubled in the final 60 seconds. Automated last-second bidding is so common that it's pretty pointless to watch "old fashioned" bids (or make one) before the last few seconds. It's not like you're going to sneak past everyone and score a $5000 item for $50 when nobody is watching. On eBay, the world is watching and robo-bidders never sleep.

Phil

On occasion I've done well when an item was placed in the wrong category making it less visible to those who would normally bid on it. Then the world isn't watching. That's pretty rare though.

IMHO robo bidding only works because of human nature. If we were to bid only the maximum amount that we were willing to spend and not increase it when we saw we were about to lose, then robo bidding wouldn't change anything. Robo bidding works because we don't have self control.

John

We've had several very entertaining success stories told at our club by folks who did bid low and then held their breath that nobody else was watching. This usually happens on poorly described, miscategorized items.

--Dave

I often win car parts that way, though the sellers don't like it when you score something for next to nothing. I'm about to leave NFB for a guy on Ebay next week for non-delivery, matter of fact. He claims his back is broken...