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Up and Running
Just wanted to give you all a final report on the sad little 1950 Crosley I picked up out of a basement in Jersey City NJ for $25.00 early last month.
It turned out to be a fairly simple restoration with the most difficult part being the undoing of all the crummy repair work done on it in past years. Aside from that it was just a matter of replacing caps and off value resistors and a few weak or bad tubes. The picture tube looks great and was replaced at some point with a crt from an outfit in Newark, NJ called Mercury Picture Tubes. I guess the only negative I can say is that the channel indicator is missing. The knob that is used to turn the station selector is there, but the indicator that sat behind it and displayed the channel number is missing. All in all it doesn't look too bad though.
Now it runs like a champ and seems very happy in it's new home.
On to the next challenge.
Bob.
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