Somebody save this before it becomes a fish tank!!
 

http://cgi.ebay.com/1950-Electrohome...QQcmdZViewItem
Check it out. A horrible fate may await it! :yikes:

Can't get excited about this one or its possible fate. Who's the seller, the cinematographer from ABC's Batman?

I like it! But it is overpriced, and I have no place to put it. It isnt from 1950 by the way. 1956 would be a better guess. Heres the picture.

John

Haven't seen you since "Last Post Wins!!". God, I miss that thread...:sigh:

It was a lot of fun. :yes:

I often wonder what got into the people who deleted it that day. I PM'd Sam a few weeks ago, and he said that some members(mods, their names aren't coming to mind) just went off and deleted it. Oh, well...:tears:

Well, I have no inside track with the moderators here, but I do work in IT. It was a very active thread. I have no doubt it had more activity that the rest of "off topic" and maybe more activity than all of AK. Thats just a guess. Whether it was consuming enough resources to be on the radar as a "problem" or not, I dont know. I imagine it could have.

I dont know if you caught it, but at the near the end of the thread there was another discussion about post counts, probably the third time around in that thread. Post counts dont mean anything to me. As I recall Sam thought they were somewhat important.

There was a couple days later another thread called "tell the lurkers how great AK is" or something like that. It came out in that thread that several people felt that if you had a low post count, you wouldnt get much response here. They were dead serious. I didn't know what to say. It certainly doesn't mirror my experiencce. My second thread here is 2 or 3 pages long. When I was a complete newbie here, AKer gonzp shipped a big heavy oscilloscope up here for me, all the way from Colorado! I would bend over backwards to do the pony express for someone else. I think AK is the greatest. It's great to hear from you again, Yamahafreak.

Ozmoid put it best. "I miss our coffee klatch".

Regarding the television set, since nobody else mentioned it, Electrohome is a Canadian brand. Though I am less than 100 miles from the border, we just dont see Canadian electronics here at all. That makes it twice as interesting to me. Still, I doubt I'll be the new owner.


John

Yeah, that's what got me cheesed. I was never able to read the last 20 or so pages before it was deleted. About the TV; I had never seen any appliances made by Electrohome before, and I didn't know they made televisions. Do you know of any other electronics they produced, and of what quality they were?

I think in the 50's Electrohome made really good stuff. I have seen some big tube monoblocks. They go for a lot of money when they show up on ebay, and they look like top drawer stuff. I have seen bizarrre omnidirectional speakers, cylindrical in shape, with the drivers pointing up. I think I read somewhere that Electrohome and Phonola (Canada) were the same thing. Someone here on ak has a "serenade" wooden table radio made by Electrohome in the 40's.

From the 70's, all I have seen are some really wierd flying-saucer shaped stereos with ball-shaped speakers. They look like about the Soundesign/Lloyds quality level. I think it might be a case like Fisher, where things were very good, then hit rock-bottom years later.

Canadian electronics just dont seem to show up here. I have been working on tube electronics since I was a kid, and the Canadian stuff fascinates me because I have never seen inside any of it.

I wonder which half is missing?

Obviously, the "home". That's why its on eBay. :yes:

If it's the same company, Electrohome made ( makes ?) a line of video projectors. I've never seen one around New York State. I don't know what market they were going after.

Bob Hodge

Hi from Canada!
I thought that maybe I could shed a little light on the Electrohome discussion. "Dominion Electrohome Industries Limited" was based in Kitchener Ontario, and like one of the previous posts mentioned, they seem to have produced some decent quality stuff at one time. Due to the fact that I am in a working class town, there don't seem to be too many examples of their high end stuff around here. From the products that I have encountered, the quality seems to really have taken a dive around the switch to solid state. I have had a couple of mono table model record players that were built like tanks, as well as some electric fans that were made prior to the switch from 25 to 60 cycles, that are still working very well. I think they were a middle of the road company, not Muntz, but not Zenith either. They seem to have produced a wide variety of stuff ranging from window air conditioners to hifi consoles.

I used to work for a company who made medical monitoring sytems that used both 14- and 19-inch video monitors (for a while) by Electrohome. They were used only as procedure-room remotes, hung from a pipe-flange-mounted hanger in the ceiling. 25- to 100-foot coax trios fed 'em RGB/sync-on-green video of patient waveforms and text. The Electrohome 19's were built like a tank, as I had to pick them up to test them with systems pre-shipment. Good thing I was young at the time. Seems they had an about-average failure rate, but it became moot when later a different (non-North-American) brand was called out on the spec, and the installed base of Electrohomes were unceremoniously scrapped as necessary over time. A tip of the toque to the Electrohome folks who made those mighty beasts!

Y'know, come to think of it, my neighbor has a really old table fan with the "finger chopper" style grille on it, and I think it may be an Electrohome. Only other brand it could be(I think)is Westinghouse.