Channel One Capehart mirrored TV
 

Hi - my first experience here.
I have the above described TV, the first one in my family. My uncle who owned a furniture store in upstate NY, gave it to me in 1953. It was already somewhat old at the time. When last I turned it on - about 5 years ago, it still worked although the picture was not the brightest.
The mirror has a 3/4" blemish on it where my father tried to remove a spot ( probably in 1954).
My question . . . Is there interest in this TV that might warrent my putting it up on EBAY?.
Thanks.
John

Yes, I think there would be considerable interest in your set. Could you post some pictures?

Steve: Thanks for the reply. I will post pictures sometime next week after the Christmas rush and I can get some help retreiving the set from the attic.
John

Spartan not Capehart
 

Attached should be pictures of the set I thought was a Capehart, but when I retreived it from the attic, I see that it is a Spartan.
Any one have comments?
John

That's a pretty badass lookin' set:thmbsp:
I would put it on a variac and bring it up real slow for a few hours and see what happens. That's definitely a keeper!

Please don't put it on a variac. Even if it comes up at first, it will fail soon - the paper capacitors all need to be replaced. You can destroy hard to find parts.

Those sets are popular among collectors, since very few mirror in lid models were made after the war. Put it on Ebay and you'll probably get a good price for it.

I've heard that some of these mirrored sets can have the mirrored coating worn off when trying to clean it, or was that another type of set, a projection set perhaps?

Steve is right, powering this up without examination and replacement of paper caps could lead to the destruction of critical had to find parts.

Jordan:
You are right about wearing the reflective surface off the mirror - take a look at the picture, that spot is just such a blemish where my father tried to clean a spot off of it with some sort of solvent - that was about 50 years ago.

I don't plan to power it up.
john

I bet the mirror could be fixed for pretty cheap

the tv looks really clean

Most any glass shop should be able to supply you a replacement cut to the correct size.