The end of the world is near...
 

And it is inside a RCA 17" or so hacked by the audio fiends. My head is spinning from the description. What...no cryogenically frozen and tempered Edison outlets for better frequency response at 8762.588Hz? How can this thing operate? And nary a Monster cable in sight. Fishtankers are starting to look good compared to this delusional conversion. Now I know what to do with my RA-109! And it is restored and working.

Viewing is NSFC (not safe for collectors). Your eyes will scar and you will never see lollipop color again. You will just hear it and you will wander the earth repeating his description on street corners.

Pix uploads are not working here tonight. View at your own risk.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1954-RCA-Vic...item3cfd641143

Ouch......now I'll be forced to gouge my own eyes out.....

$2500??? Hahahahah

Ooh, burn. Audiophool snobbery mixed with hipster tacky, that must be a highly unstable combination.

I can't say I'm surprised by the asking price.

hate to see a nice set ruined like that. Back in college I thought about making a guitar amp out of a ugly 60s Zenith 19" b&W.. Use the chassis, transformer & audio output trans, and put a speaker where the CRT was, but never got that far. I parted out a couple 15 years ago when I was moving and didnt have room, I had like 5 of them ...those sets used to be plentiful $5-10 garage slae items back in the 80s, Wouldn't do that now, unless the set wasnt savable. I did keep the 3 best ones. I did save the power transformers for future tube amp or radio restorations. I must have had at least 10 Zenith B&W sets from 1960-1970 or so at one time. Every single one of them worked OK. when i got it from a garage sale, although a couple had crts that wernt so bright anymore.

You wouldn't happen to have saved the vert. out transformers from those (I could use one)?

EM made that !

Com'on admit it that's your contraption ! !

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Ridiculous and just plain sickening. Good luck getting $2500. What a joke.

No, my 17" metal RCA is the older 4 knob/NO pencil box version.....Might get that treatment if whatever put it back on the DL is expensive though.

Not exactly a nice thing to do, but at least the set they did it to is far from being a rare set.

The newer (pencil box ) version quite likely had the metal cone 17CP4 crt, which was likely gassy anyway and hard to find. Not an uncommon set anyway, IMHO not a great loss.

jr

To paraphrase a comment on another discussion:

Maybe if a couple of us TV collectors found an early Gibson-Les Paul guitar and drilled holes all over it for sorting out our capacitors (stand their leads in the holes), or strung up a bunch of Telefunken 12AX7s as Christmas-tree lights (run them at 8 or 9 volts, nice and bright!), when the audiophools came crying, we could explain how this type of junk is to us.

It's not even a good guitar amplifier, it's missing the necessary leaky .022uf black beauty capacitors that all great guitar amps need to get that "sound"

Chuck

Someone needs to slap this idiot and tell him he wasted a perfectly good antique television, on a stupid, poorly made guitar amp. It looks like a child made this.

This piece of trash made by the hands of a baboon could be YOURS for the new LOW LOW COST OF $2,500!

I wonder if one can convert a fish tank into a guitar amp or convert a guitar amp into a fish tank?

That model used both, the all glass and the metal cone CRT's
The 17QP4, glass and the 17CP4 metal cone CRT.
I have the four knob version that uses the 17QP4. Mine has the voltage doubler, using selenium rectifiers. The newer version uses a 5U4 and a 5Y3, which I like a little better.

IIRC my 4 knober uses the all glass CRT AND has the 5U4-5Y3 dual rectifier set up....

So does mine! To me (having both at one time and running out of room), it was a pretty easy decision to keep the older 4 knob version and turn loose of the later version (pencil box) that had a weak (going gassy) metal CRT.

jr

Wow, i should never have clicked that link.

The 4 knob version with the tube rectifiers, was a strange model for RCA. It has a 21MHZ IF and a penthode tuner, 6J6/6CB6. It must've been the BOTL model, that year.
The 4 knob version, with the voltage doubler, has the cascode tuner, 6BQ7A/6X8 and the 41MHZ IF.
RCA was an early player, with the 41MHZ IF. :thmbsp:

Now there's a cool idea! :scratch2: I didn't know tubes could glow bright at such low voltages.

On a similar note, I junked a Dual turntable for its motor. I'm sure the audiophools would have wanted it for nothing because a little bit of rubbing alcohol got on the platter and ate away a little bit of the rubber. Aside from that, it was too complex for me to want to bother fixing, strobe lights are almost impossible to find and they're not a bolt-in swap for most other turntables of the time. Give me a much-simpler Garrard any day for the rare occasion I do play records.

Wow religious intercourse Batman that guy must really be on some good meds... I like the fact that he shows the cap and component board looks like it was soldered by a 5 year old. I think we should all sit back and see if he actually pulls this off if he does, I guarantee you my old TV collection will literally be worth millions... Needless to say I'll have a lot of CRT's for sale as well as chassis :-)

Maybe it was. Brian's 8 year old daughter has demonstrated superior soldering skills.

Thats 1 of the idiot sheeple of today who think TODAYS GARBAGE is so good and they dont give a crap about the PURITY of the past!!!

Well, he put over $2,500 worth of parts and labor into it, so OF COURSE it's worth that much! Now pay up. ;-)

That's about as bad as the guy who cuts speakers into suitcases and asks absurd money (and occasionally gets it!):

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw...omper&_sacat=0

Oh--That's just plain Wrong on all sorts of levels, not least the god-awful build-quality.....