Nice Dumont in St. Louis, Missouri
 

There's a Nice Dumont in St. Louis, Missouri. This would be a nice set for Marlin Mackley who is not too far from there.

http://cgi.ebay.com/DuMont-1949-Tele...QQcmdZViewItem

"total weight with crate is estimated at 320 pounds" :eek:

I think I'll watch this one!

At least I won't have to ship the darn thing.

Travis

If you contact the seller, I would advise him to NOT mess any more with replacing fuses and powering it up -- especially just to get a photo of a lighted dial. Nothing good can happen while it's still in their unpracticed hands.

Just my $0.02.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

I already contacted them about that. Much to their credit they posted my comments in the listing. Undoubtedly they would have burned something up in that set had they kept putting fuses in it and powering it up. It's sad how many people on Ebay keep powering up long-unused radios and TVs to see if they will do anything, hoping they will work so they can get more money for them. In the process a lot of damage is being done to the old sets.

Why heck, they just haven't put a big enough fuse in there, I usually find a 20 amp will hold up just fine... :lmao:

(the preceding was a joke, never exceed the listed rating for any fuse :nono:)

I would LOVE to have another Tele Set. That one probably has the cool dual HV/LV rectifiers and the huge 40 pound tranformer. The most interesting sets I have ever seen. The key will be getting it with no shipping because that 320 pound shipping weight sounds light to me. I got rid of my RA109A because it was just TOO HEAVY and big. Perfect size for oh, say, a castle....

Somebody needs to tell those people to quit plugging the darn thing in just to show that the dial light works of all things.

It's not like I needed something more in the house, but I got the DuMont for $41. The seller seemed very nice on the phone and said she bought it with the intention of gutting it. When she tried it and it somewhat worked, she thought she would let someone else restore it!

It will get done here someday, but there's a fairly long list of radio's, tv's, refrigerators, and a few jukeboxes ahead of it!

Man you even do refrigerators!! Never heard of that although I will admit I have always thought that the 50's refrigerators were really neat looking, and work very well to boot. When I was a kid I remember a frig with a big chrome V used as the latch. How cool can a frig get? It may have been a Norge or Kelvinator. I have thought of replacing my newer CHEAP Admiral with a vintage frig.

Its amazing that at one time, in an old industrial America with its own economy (no global) that we made products that are now prooving to outlast their owner.

Does anyone think their Wal-Mart Mao Tse Tung television will outlast them?

I got the set home on Saturday. It's in very nice shape with only some minor scratches on the top.

The fuse is blown on the TV chassis. I looked underneath and saw all the caps that I'll have to replace at some point. For now, the 15DP4 CRT tests as new and the AM radio works very well.

The seller was happy that someone that would restore it got it. She had planned to gut it and that would have been horrible for such a nice set.

With the thought of everything made in china or mexico or some other country I believe my six year old dog will out live these sets! If you read the boxes of some of these LCD or plasma tvs the bulb life expectancy is about 25 to 30 years providing the set is played only five hours a day! At a price of $1,500 and up sure does not sound very long to me! Hard to beat the picture of a beautiful working CTC11 or 12 and theses sets are 45 years old! Shows the craftsmanship we had at one time here in the good USA!