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Old 12-06-2002, 12:41 AM
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"New" set

Here's a pic of my latest set.

Got this beauty off eBay for $20, it looked much worse than it was, just extremely dirty and some mouse rust on the gold trim.

I took it completely apart, washed and waxed the cabinet and repainted the gold screen trim. (the picture below is after repainting the trim but before the wash and wax)

The tubes wouldn't light, I traced it to a bad tube socket on one of the 6CU8's, a bear to change and to make matters worse I had to completely disassemble a parts set to get a replacement socket

It fires up now, has raster but no picture and some hum bars on the screen, time for a recap but I have other projects to finish first.

It's either the Walnut or Mahogany finish, not sure which, and is otherwise identical to this RCA:
http://www.vintagetvsets.com/rcaswiv.htm
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