Well I don't know if I am a weirdo or not (sure seems to be a lot of us out there)
I don't know if I should get out more or what the heck it is about this hobby that lights the 6LQ6 in my mind but I am glad it is there.
These old sets are many things to those of us who collect them. To me they are history. They are windows into a time when a human being actually put things together with their hands. A time when people took pride in the product they built; often pushing the envelope of technology to do something miraculous like beam a moving image into our homes and our lives.
Not to wax too nostalgic here but while I was just a tyke in 1969, sitting in front of my beautiful CTC-21 seeing man land on the moon...it is something I hardly, if at all really remember but that moment in time came through that set and through those speakers and was a magnet for my family that we all shared together.
I also think of the older 40's and 50's tv's and radios that were parts of so many different people's lives. Some of these radios heard Roosevelt on December 7, 1941. They living history beamed into their very living rooms. They heard and saw incredible moments in time from the Korean war to Uncle Milty to Jack Benny and back again. These wonderful old machines carry the ghosts of those who cherished them and they are very special.
For me, I have many sets in my collection. I have set up my garage to be more like a tv sales showroom and run electricity and antenna to all the sets so I can turn any of them on I wish to view them in all their glory. As they get restored, I hope to be able to turn on more of them.
So let em call us weirdos or whatever. They can think (albeit ignorant or misguided minds) Our good old RCA's, Zeniths, Philcos, Crosleys, GEs, Admirals, Hoffmans and all the rest of our so called junk tvs and radios will be playing and bringing history and entertainment into our lives long after this "modern" stuff has made its trip to the landfill.
Just my 2 cents on the subject of this thread and other comments within it.
Roy