Kamakiri's great television trek
 

So....from the period from say March 24 till May 3, I put on close to 2,500 miles on the car, visited a lot of my TV friends, made trade deals, and got a TON of sets.

Here's what I ended up with. Needless to say that I'll have no shortage of things to do in the near future. The '50s portables went in a trade deal to one friend though....which is just as well because I'm a console guy at heart, and he loves the dang things :)

More....

More!

Might be a couple more I missed, but that's all I can remember. And tube caddies, and tubes, and cool old test equipment, etc.

Downsizing appears to be a possibility. Right now I'm in triage mode :yes:

Now that's a haul! You forgot to mention that you also managed to help other collectors while you were at it. A very big thank you for the Sams Photofact folders and the capacitors for restuffing purposes.

It was the least I could do. Ironically I had a Sams for a 3" Pilot, gave it to Al because he's been drooling over them for a year now. The next day, he scores one at ETF!

Ended up bringing back a CTC-10, a '72 Zenith color console, and a Philco color roundie from ETF for one guy, and am storing a CTC-4 for another collector in Texas that came up for sale at ETF.

Still on a hunt for a CTC-53 for another TV buddy.

By the way, did you ever end up picking up the Sparton?

Wow, what a haul! :thmbsp:

That's a real cool little Emerson! :yes:

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No :sigh:. I got outbid by some one else. We'll see when my whale shows up if I really needed it anyway.

Got one of those little metal Emerson sets. Got it years ago--I THINK at an Estes auction. Beleive it is cold. Never messed with it...though it had been stolen in the robbery....but I found it last year when I moved my stuff.

Figure it was their answer to the RCA 8" set..

I had it recapped within a week of getting it. Has sound, HV, but no raster. Picture tube tests good too. But I'll get to that at some point, right now the biggest fish I'm frying is how to organize all of this stuff into a moderately packed finished basement.....

VERY cool sets!

Performance-wise, it was better than the RCA. Same RCA built CRT.
Power transformer, voltage doubler PS. Standard Coil Neutrode tuner. Same one, as on the larger Emersons. It uses a 6AQ5 audio output, where the RCA used the triode half of a 6U8. I has an external speaker jack and a phono input. Add a record player and you have a small-scale home entertainment center. :thmbsp:

I had the same little Emerson, given to me by a friends family, same color, sold it cheap at the Oak creek hamfest a few years ago, I hope someone was able to bring it back to life.

I bought that one on the way to Lancaster PA, at a place called Roller Mills Antiques in Lewisburg PA. Think I paid $30 or $35.

I have this same model that i have restored back into operation several years ago. this set is an amazing performer for being a "budget" model. both the TV & radio sections function very well. however, the handle & the thumb screws that attach the handle to the set are missing on mine. if anybody has those, please PM me.

i also have a complete parts chassis with a good CRT as well.

I like the bakelite GE locomotive and the 7" '50 Motorola the best. They look like nice examples!

The Locomotive is 100% restored and operates nicely. The 7" Motorola I haven't had a chance to even clean up yet.

So what do I do today? I go out and end up getting more sets. Pretty soon I'm gonna need to go into rehab :sigh:

But....but....they were free!

Very nice groups of sets. My faves are the maple cabinet Zenith, the RCA BW Deluxe, and the CTC 7 Sanford! On the rehab....I'm afraid it's already too late....for both of us! :-) :-)

Decided I'd crack open the black and gold RCA just for grins, and what do I see? Hm, looks like the seleniums were replaced with diodes! A very good sign!

And sure enough, it works! Brought it up VERY slowly, appears as if it was restored 20 plus years ago....but it still works! I'll have to go in and replace a few wax caps, and the control shaft extensions were crumbling apart, but other than that, what a pleasant surprise! :)

The Zenith 19" portable you picked up reminds me of a similar set used as a video monitor in my high school's CCTV system 40+ years ago; it (and almost certainly the rest of that system) is long gone by now, almost 40 years since my class graduated.

Your set looks like it is missing the channel selector knob, but if you can set the tuner on channel 3 or 4, even if it means using a pair of pliers to do it (!), you won't need the knob anyhow since any DTV box or cable box you connect to it will have an output signal on one of those channels. Being near Buffalo, you would probably use channel 3 as the output channel, but since all TV is digital these days it probably wouldn't matter which channel you selected to receive the output of the converter or box. Even if you use channel 4, the signal from the box would more than likely override the broadcast signal, since the former will be fed directly into the tuner via coax.

My modulator broadcasts on channel 9, so as long as that station's good, it's fine by me. The knob is just an aesthetic thing, of course.

Two words: Stove. Knob.



Do it! :naughty:

What a tour! You need T-shirts made up for something like that. It takes some of us a year to find that many treasures but somehow, you end up moving them along.

That 17" black and gold RCA was made by Sylvania, the upper-lower chassis. I got a red-silver one last year and haven't worked on it. Just dreading the pc board, that's all.

:jawdrop::jawdrop::jawdrop::jawdrop::jawdrop:

I had a trip like that once! Awesome collection you got there! I once picked up 15 sets in one haul from a retired TV repairman, wish a dumont doghouse and GE locomotive set was in it like your haul.

PLEASE tell me those were NOT all sitting by that garbage can...to be put out for the packer man !!

No,

I was too excited to carry them into the house first. I got them out of the car to check them out and take pictures. I got 10 more sets that day.