[bgadow]

Here I am, trying hard to get rid of tv's, and what do I do? Buy more! The story behind these: an elderly customer of mine has moved from his old farmhouse into an apartment. I mentioned that I collect radios/tv's. First he gave me an old Philco console radio from the barn. The story is that he never threw out any of the old stuff, just stashed it away somewhere. And thats where these came in-the old tv sets just got pushed upstairs when they stopped working. The one on the left is a Silvertone, 1954 model. The other is a 1960 Motorola. He says both have bad crts, something I usually take with a grain of salt. I tend to believe it on the Sears since it has a GE branded tube with a brightener, which would seem to point to years of hard use. Will have to put the tester on it-set is packed with black beauties so I know better than to even try it. The Motorola is loaded inside with tobacco gunk but has most of its original tubes, including HV. I carefully powered it up and I have audio but no hv, despite subbing all tubes in the circuit. Tommorow night I'll drag out my trusty Sencore sweep circuit troubleshooter and see what develops. Ironically, I just brought back to life a Motorola that is about a year older, a cheap table model. They are very similiar with the biggest difference being that the 59 is series filament and this one parallel. Last year I came across a collector who wanted to sell all his tvs and most of his radios. This included a Motorola console very close to this one. I walked on that deal because he hemmed and hawed on the price too much. Out of that whole lot this was the set I kept thinking I might want to call him on again-now I don't have to!

BTW, price on these was $15 each, which I, being a cheapskate, thought was too high. He said the cabinets were worth a lot...hmmm...sounds familiar?!