Free old TVs and CRTs in Charlotte, NC
 

I have been contacted by a guy in Charlotte, NC who has a basement full of old TVs that he would like to give away.

His grandfather ran a RCA dealership in Charlotte for 50 years. These TVs are what remains. Most are RCA, but not all. They also have a dozen brand new picture tubes.

Whoever takes them must pick them up -- and take everything.

He does not have a list of model numbers. He says that his grandfather used to have hundreds of these. Most are consoles.

I would go and take a look at them, but Charlotte is a 3,000 mile drive from here.

If you are interested, send me an email and I'll give you the guy's contact information.

I am 90 miles away! I would like to have a look at what he has. PM sent!


polaraman

go, go polaraman! Sounds like a great find! Good luck-and wish me luck as well, as I am on the trail of something this weekend...

I made contact with the folks and am going up Monday night.

polaraman

Here is the load of televisions that I brought home. On top are a Bendix, Capehart and a GE.


polaraman

All those TVs will keep you off the streets for a while.... Enjoy.

There are 12 televisions on my truck. 11 in the bed and one in the cab. There are 3 CRTs in the cab.

I was out on the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour last night. I was helping a man on the tour fix a right front wheel bearing on his 76 Aspen wagon. He drove on it till it melted to the spindle. Had to replace the whole thing last night. We were lucky to find a local Chevy guy that knew another person who knew a MOPAR guy with the correct parts. Try finding a spindle for a 76 Aspen at 8PM on a Tuesday. :no: SO! The televisions are still on the back of my truck!!!!

polaraman

polaraman,

Very lucky find. :yes:

If you've bitten of more than you can chew, or if you just don't want the Capehart, I sure could find a nice home for it. Looks like a CX-33 chassis and a 20-inch crt. I'm not sure of the cabinet style, but if you give me a model number I could get more info to you. I have a lot of original documents for the set that might help you to restore it, if that's where you're going with it. Regardless, let me know what you do with it. Please don't chop-shop it for parts. Thanks.

-kbmuri

The Capehart is Model 320. It would be in the CX-33 series of chassis. It would be SAMS 112-3. That would put the set about 1950/51. SAMS says that it is Capehart/Dumont. Is this a Dumont chassis?


polaraman

According to my books:
Capehart 320:
Open-Face Console
Mahogany Blonde cabinet
CX33 chassis type
C289 chassis number
16RP4 CRT
Electromagnetic focus
8-inch speaker
Turret 20mc tuner
Model name: "Spinet"
Year: 1950

DuMont may have placed some Capehart CX-33s in some of their cabinets, but you have a Capehart cabinet and a Capehart Chassis. Nothing DuMont about it IMHO.

Just curious, I have a Sams 112-3 in front of me, I don't see the reference to DuMont. Where is it?

Somewhere on your chassis you'll see printed CX33-"n", where "n" is a 1 thru 5. There were 5 production runs, with subtle variations. Sams 112-3 is sort of a conglomeration of all 5 and may or may not be exactly consistent with your set. So don't take it completely as gospel.

There's a 320 like yours in the Philo T Farnsworth museum in Indiana. That's the only other one I've seen. I'm very new to this forum though, and I've seen more Capeharts here in the last month than anywhere else (outside of the museum). I'm really hoping to find a round-screen Capehart, like the 334, at some point. Anyone out there know of one?

Keep us up to date on what you do with yours. Thanks!

I did a SAMS search on their web page for the SAMS number. It said Capehart/Dumont and the sams number.


polaraman

We were just talking in another thread about what became of the DuMont name when Emerson was done with it-maybe it ended up in the same hands as Capehart (in the 70s, I'd say) and now Sams lists them together? Kinda like how all the old Motorola stuff is now under Quasar. Just a thought.

Here is a pic of the RCA T-121 that I got. The cabinet is shaped like a T-100 but it is much larger. This set has a 12" CRT and not a 10BP4 like the T-100. The safety glass is broken. Anybody got another to spare?

polaraman

Load number two of the TV stuff. The picture tubes are new in the box 21AMP4. I will get detailed pictures later. I have one more load to get. The Hallicrafters in the front right has a color compatible plug on it. I posted the picture if the tag and socket on the Admiral color compaitble thread.


polaraman

Polaraman,

Attached is a photo of the Capehart 320 in the Farnsworth museum.

Also have a look at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=6213730579.

If it helps motivate.

Your RCA looks cool too. Have fun!