Stewart Warner b/w tv
 

I bought a Stwart Warner tv today from local junk shop for 10.00 and tried to look it up on line here and got car parts or radios. Has anyone heard of this brand? Or if I got a good deal? Any info would be great. KIM

Stewart Warner was a really good brand from the earliest days of radio. They continued making radios into at least the 50's, so a tv set wouldnt be that surprising. You never see them, though.

I'd love to see pics, especially inside.

John

I have two. One is a 12" round and the other is a 21" with a 21AP4. Neither are restores at this pernt, but will be eventually.

pics of stewart warner tv
 

here are some pics just taken, cheap camera so not the best pics. KIM

Looks like a keeper to me!

I wish I could find a neat looking set like that for ten bucks. Test the CRT, inspect, bring it up, and see what happens.

nice piece!

Looks like a keeper to me, too. Mid 50's I'd say. Cool set!

John

yes I am glad I found this deal. But I do not know the first thing about checking the CRT I am sure If I was told how to I could. The guy said he got picture and sound from it when he plugged it in but one thing the plug kinda looks rotten should I cut it off and how would I replace it . He told me he didnt keep it on for too long just to check it is all for fear of fire. KIM

A TV from the 50's most likely will not work well as it did new, and likely will soon fail taking out an expensive hard to find part. It will need the electronic equivalent of an overhaul. Mostly to replace wax paper capacitors. Vacuum tubes are more reliable than what you'd remember from back then. Tubes not used (either in the shipping box or in an unused TV set) last indefinately. NOT true of the wax paper caps, those absorb moisture from the air over time (and their time is up) and go electronically leaky, causing the TV circuits to not work right. See my repair page http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/radios/repair.htm and http://www.antiqueradio.org/recap.htm though I would not try to remove all of the old cap lead from terminals (these are fairly fragile). Just clip with small wire cutters.

ok thanks :banana: kim

I hooked it up put a plug from radio on it a plug in kind and the sound is great the knobs light up all but the volume knob, It has a trebbile and base button and the knobs are all bakealitte. The picture comes in bright but has black lines, like static in it or bad reception?

I have a couple of ads for Stewart Warner, 1948 and 1949, showing 2 earlier TV models of theirs - one a round-tube table model and the other a round tube mirror-in-lid console. Yours must be from the 50's. "Stewart Warner, Chicago 14 Illiniois"

Thanks

your black lines that look like static may is most likely the damper tube failing. Eventually it will break down and short, destroying the Horizontal output tube, and possibly the flyback if the set doesn't have a HV fuse. I would stop running the set until you've replaced the damer, and checked the horiz out tube. Destroying the HV supply is not on your high priority list.

ok I will just use it as it is, for now it looks nice where I have it, until I find the tubes to replace it and that may not happen for a while I do not know where to find them.

You really want to smoke that thing out, don't you? You've now been told twice that applying power to this set while in its present unrestored condition can have dire consequences. First you were told not to plug it in, to which you responded "ok thanks" and promptly proceeded to plug it in anyway. Next you were told that the condition you described could be a symptom of imminent catastrophic failure, to which you responded "I will just use it as it is." If you're not serious about restoring it that's your red wagon, at least don't make it unrestorable by stressing the hardest-to-find components.