Scored a Dumont Manchurian.
 

So I went to an audio hoarder today to grab some mundane late 40s-early 60 table sets (including CTC-10 I was informed about the day before going).
I was told about the dumont when I arrived and at the end after failing to figure out how to get inside to test the CRT I made a rediculously low offer not knowing CRT condition and they accepted...
Given me and 2 people could barely get it in my suburban I don't look forward to unloading it, and I have no clue where I'm going to put it, but given I never thought I'd be in a position to buy one let alone so affordably I couldn't pass it up.
http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1641692458

Looks like it's in nice shape too. What year is it, 1949 50?

1948/49 apparently. I thought it was a little earlier. Uses a 20" all glass 20BP4 picture tube and weighs 350 lbs!?!
http://www.myvintagetv.com/dumont_manchu.htm

1948...It's 20" screen was the biggest direct view screen that year.

I'm both looking forward to and dreading unloading that 350lb monster later today.
Yesterday I noticed an 80s balun on the antenna terminals so this may already be recaped.

From what I gather it's basically a RA-105 with a beefed up power supply/horizontal output chassis to accommodate the 20" CRT. I'd have to guess it came out after the 105's. It's a cool piece, but I don't think I could live in the same space with that cabinet.

Looking at the link Bob posted and I can see why it's 350 pounds. That chassis is massive. Someone must have laid out some serious cash back then.

As Wallace Wimple would say on the old Fibber McGee and Molly show; " oh my aching back".

Tain't funny, McGee.:lmao:

:lmao: once I get it in from the garage I'll have to invite 'Old Waxy' over to do a Johnson's self polishing glow coat commercial with it. :D

Unloading it wasn't too bad yesterday except for the wheels making it want to roll away while tipping it up.
Got the back off yesterday and found a brightener. Didn't get a chance to test it before I started having cold symptoms...Today it's supposed to be 3f as a high temperature so it's probably going to stay untouched in the garage today.
http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1641846423

I bought way too much stuff this week.
http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1641846423

Dang, that chassis is MASSIVE! you weren't kidding when you said it was a big TV! :yikes::jawdrop:

That is QUITE the beast. Bravo!

you guys always seem to be able to find the fun stuff up there. :scratch2:

I can never seem to find a break down here :sigh:

Let’s see the ctc-10… :naughty:

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1641865574

It looks mint. The original manual, paperwork and legs are in the back. The 21CYP22 woke up after about 15 minutes on the tester. That set had been hidden in an alcove in a wall with something that had sat in front of it for many years. They had forgotten about it for a long time.

Good news CRT seems to be good.
I know why the CRT had a brightener. There's a short.... I'm not sure where since it didn't register on HK or G1 shorts scale on my tester, but without the brightener the meter pegged on cutoff and emissions (WHICH ISN'T RIGHT), but tested with normal cutoff behavior and good emissions with the brightener in series....With the brightener in series I got my DMM on the heater pins of the base and dialed around my meter till I got 6.3V and that's where I took my emissions reading. This should be repairable without CRT swaps.

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1641939996

Posted a video of the haul I got.
https://youtu.be/QfDzpue1Xmk

Did someone forget to pay the electric bill? That seemed like a shady video. :D Otherwise cool stuff.

No my family is too cheap to change the fluorescent bulbs in the garage when they fail(and after a few years the ballasts failed from trying to run dead bulbs) and my phone sucks in less than bright lighting.

Haha! Congratulations!

Could there have been any way you could have externally illuminated the area in the garage where you were using your phone? This would have made up for the lack of lighting in there if the fluorescent tubes were dim or outright dead. Also, trying to power dead (or nearly dead) bulbs is a very good way to shorten the life of the ballast transformers, which never were meant to operate fluorescent tubes which are on their last legs; it is no wonder the ballasts failed when they did.


Fluorescent bulbs last a long time, but they will fail eventually, as do any kind of light bulb. Case in point: I have replaced all but one of the incandescent bulbs in the light fixtures in my apartment with LED bulbs, which are supposed to last at least ten years. I now only have one standard incandescent bulb in the chandelier-type light fixture below my ceiling fan; the other three are LED bulbs, with yet another in the light fixture in my bedroom, but for some reason, the one remaining incandescent bulb just keeps going--hasn't burned out yet, and it's probably been at least a year since I replaced the other three (not to mention the one in an end-table lamp) with LED bulbs; they are still going strong. I also replaced the incandescent lamp on my desk with an LED lamp a couple years ago. The bulbs in this lamp, LEDs of course, are still going even after, again, at least a year (I don't remember anymore when I replaced that lamp).

How much loot did you get when you unlocked that achievement? :D