Yesterday I found a 1971 Curtis Mathes tube type color set at an estate sale for $10.00. This house looked like very little in it had changed since the 1960's...there was lots of interesting vintage lamps and decorative items I got too.
The set had a hack repair job done on it...the back was put on with one screw and the chassis was not mounted to the cabinet very well...maybe only with one screw. I used the ratchet strap and dolly to move it on end.
It uses an RCA CTC-25 type chassis with some improvements such as connecting plugs and sockets on the wiring to the tuner cluster, 8" speakers, cooling fins on power transformer and a 6BQ5 audio output tube.
2 of the power supply diodes look very crudely soldered onto the circuit board. There was no indication of power when I plugged itin. It has a 25V" picture tube without a bonded faceplate.
Here is a video of the set. I don't have a still camera that works very well so I usually just do videos plus the video lets you show and tell more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqsW7MwFcqI
Also does anyone know if there is a way to embed videos in AK posts?