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Here's one I scored some time ago from the attic of a now-defunct parts distributor in Youngstown. It's a Philco 16M91 chassis, which looks to me to be a licensed clone of an RCA CTC-20. The Sams is in Set 835 and the one for the RCA is in 837, and they're very similar. I set this one aside because the base had been detached from the 21FJP22 and the tube tested on the weak side when I connected my Heathkit tester to it with the "universal leads" adaptor. I recently pulled it out of the corner where it had been tucked away, though, in hopes of either tracking down an affordably-priced replacement 21FJP22 or that "waking up" the one in the set might be feasible as a temporary fix until I can fit the cost of a rebuild into my budget. Besides the detached CRT base, the 6JE6 was missing from its socket. Cosmetically, the set is in pretty good shape, so I'm revisiting the possibility of getting it going by the end of the summer.
I had planned to substitute a known-good spare 21FJP22 after its cataract surgery, but it was determined after the surgery that the safety glass from that tube had so many scratches that it was unusable. The delaminated tube will be substituted into the Sylvania set from my earlier post instead, just as Todd's similar Sylvania had been retrofitted with a 21FBP22 when its original 21AXP22 failed.
Later this week, Jamie and I are planning a "road trip" to pick up three Zenith roundie sets and some other items that I arranged to buy from someone in NY. Two are in cosmetically "Good" condition, the third is "Fair" cosmetically. None of them are working at the moment, but the plan is to salvage parts from any that don't seem to be likely candidates for restoration due to, for example, a faux-finish cabinet in rough condition and transplant those parts to save the other two and perhaps transplant a 95-2263 injection coil into my 24MC32 whose coil is broken (mentioned in another thread).
Here are some photos of the Philco.
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