Kutztown show
 

Well i couldn't make it for friday and the auction was friday but was there saturday and there were some sets there , some a bit pricey others reasonable , there was a guy from north carolina with a ctc-9 that after measurements i probably could hae fit it in the car but $325 was his price , i had to let it go and he didn't sell it , i'm sure i could have talked him down but i wont go into why i didn't try but should have.
a friend told me a ge 800 was put in the dumpster , the cabinet wasn't bad at all and the chassis was there just no crt and knobs , well just as i got to the dumpster there was a guy already looking at it , he decided to take it , said it would make a good aquarium , my other friend later on said i should have offered him $10 for it but i wasn't quick to think.
met a couple vk members , was a pretty good show , below is a picture of one of my acquisitions , couldn't pass it up since i passed up a blonde one last year.
anyone have any stories that went ?
any questions on what else was there ?
mike

I love the rounded corners on that. Makes it look more like a radio console.

19ap4?

I was also there as a DVHRC member and there were a few sets but nothing jumped out. I did see a Farnsworth and a Capehart twin that changed hands. I heard about a Raytheon 7" but did not see it. Waves had a Philco 1000. There was an Olympic mirror-top! Never seen one. A twin of the Sparton version. Went for $10 at the auction. The cabinet was scruffy and the radio/phono door was missing the hinges. A seller had a pair of DVHS decks with a crate of studio releases in DVHS. $70 for all.

The show was well attended with a few sellers arriving Wednesday but no public. We moved the auction to Friday night because the Saturday auction was hurting the buyers. Table sellers were closing early for the auction which left few tables open later in the morning. The move to Friday night seemed successful with many more bidders than Saturday. One of our main themes is to get the public in to expand the hobby. Our famous BIN table was busy for both Friday and Saturday. Lots of strange stuff that people really took away...thanks to all who help us move this stuff. I picked up a Lafayette VOM NIB and a pristine vinyl version of Cheap Trick Buddakan...my hometown boys. Now to find the 15v battery for the VOM. The 1.5v battery powers most of the functions. It has a 12 amp scale that will help me diagnose a problem I have with a camera at my ballpark. The DVHRC is always fine-tuning our big show and hope you find all of it for the better.

The oddest thing I saw in the auction was a Zenith FM-only stereo 9-tube plastic table radio. The odd thing is that it is only one half a pair. It has a switch for L/Mono/R on the front. You need a pair of these to get stereo. One for L and the other for R. It even has a speaker phase reverse switch on the back. The buyer already had one so he is set with an 18 tube FM stereo. Now back to the tv stuff.

For those of you who read this down to here, I trash-picked a Moto gold bezel for a 7VT5R in good shape. I cleaned it and buffed a bit with Novus #2. First PM and post here to time stamp from a needy set owner that needs a good one gets it. Not for resale. Postage paid by the DVHRC.

Listen that mirror in the lid olympic i helped unload and get it into the guy's house that won it , it was so heave we had to take the tv section out , that was easier said then done , you couldn't just unbolt the chassis , you had to unscrew all kinds of wood parts and more to get it out , it is bolted to a piece of wood that the speaker is attatched to and remove it and even then try getting it to come out , it did come out and we were able to carry it a lot easier , he also bought that fm only zenith so i got to see it , what a bad marketing idea , buy two of the same radio to hear stereo.

The motorola has a 16GP4 not a 19AP4 , would have been nice to be a 19 but if it was and the crt was bad i would be stuck , i took the back off and saw it was a ge 16GP4 and thought that might be a good sign , stuck it on the tester , after 5 minutes it really woke up and is a really good crt , it is also a transformer set so should be a good performer because it reminds me of the 17" chassis used by motorola and they are pretty good , yes the rounded corners are nice , not only does it have a radio look but if accidently bumped into it wont hurt lol.

there were other sets , a not so great predicta holiday with some cracks in the mask but not in bad areas and no knobs for 60 , there was a crosley 10" bakelite , a ct-4 or ctc-5 that sold and that ctc-9 that i really should have did what i could to get , a 7" bakelite philco , a 7" emerson , 8" motorola bakelite , rca 10" 8-t - something with am fm radio , one of those philco bakelite 12WP4 sets , a 21" tble top zenith with space command that was tempting just because of the space command , a couple others that wont come to mind , an overpriced 57-58 era 14 inch rca metal portable , a philco 12" rounded top tv , yes there were sets , this was opposite of last year , may 2013 tons of tv sets but sept 2013 not much , may 2014 not many sets but sept 2014 a good amount.

i guess i will do what i can to get there on friday in may 2015 for the auction.
mike

Hi,
I had a table on Saturday. Next May I'm going Friday as I had done in the past, this year was good, Id say.
Nice to see you there Dave A, I will catch up with you Mike, hopefully next year.
Philcophan was also in attendance. We'll have to trade something next May.

I went looking to sell mostly and source some parts for a Philco 38-7 and Zenith 8S563 Im restoring for hobby money.
Sold some NIB Finco and Jerrold UHF antennas, so I'll bring more TV antennas and lots more tubes in May.
I bought a huge lot of tubes last month and did well selling the 37 of 200 I brought, only 2.5% of whats at home ;)
Its a good thing I made it to my table before selling the 3 flats of tubes to the looky-loos that bug you while you're trying to unload your truck.
I hadda keep repeating, "there are no 45s or 2A3s or Western Electric gems, OK?"

When the club BIN table was opened up to "take it now - please" at 2pm, I nabbed that 1956 metal 17" Bug-eye Zenith. What a cool set!
The only other treasure I brought home was an RCA 66X1 a guy from Massachusetts sold me for $5 cause the bakelite case was cracked, but all there. He marvelled at how well he did with test equipment, here so much more than other meets.
I restored an RCA 66X1 for a guy at work and it needed NO Rf alignment - dead on, a fine performer, so I wanted another.

Its great to see all the travelers come here. The guys from DVHRC run a great show! Hats off again. =)

You have no idea how glad I am that the bug-eye went to a respectable new home...

The guy who kept muttering loudly while digging through the pile was certainly an odd one... In my mind I have dubbed him "Foul Ole Ron" after the character in Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. (To be completely fair to the guy, he has no similarity whatsoever with Foul Ole Ron when it comes to the stench department, only the amusing incoherent muttering.)


I'm the guy who couldn't stomach the thought of all of the Radiola power supplies going for steel scrap, also the Riders TV Volume 11.