I have decided to wait and pass on it.for 1 thing his price was too high.Besides even if he accepted an offer for half which is what I was thinking about because it's ebay and not craigslist I would be obligated to buy it bad crt or not.
The 2nd thing was the "caveman" repair like you said.The 3rd thing was the disconnected plate cap and Hv wire with the cover off the HV section.Could have meant bad flyback,crt who knows.
And fourth it was an 8 hour round trip.
They don't show up as often in Md and the sellers often have high prices on them like the ebay auction. High asking prices seem to be a northeast thing Both on ebay and craigslist.I see it on jukeboxes and old radios as well. Nothing cheap around here unless you get extremely lucky and find it at a garage sale or something like that and the guy doesn't know what he has.
I've been trying to contact a local list member who gets around a lot more than I do to see if he can locate one.He doesn't get on here often.I have to work 6 days a week so that leaves out most yard,garage and estate sales for me.BTW I've never seen anything but modern tvs in the trash and this day and time probably will not.even back when I started looking for tvs to sell the oldest were late 60s tube and early 70s portables.
Saw a roundie once in front of a defunct radio repair shop in Salisbury and started to grab it and a guy came out and stopped me around 1988 or so.
I was extremely lucky on my Zenith 29JC20 roundie maybe I'll get lucky on a 50s console for my friend.
J.C.
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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson
I don't know about things in MD, but here in WA people can hardly give away humdrum 1950s B/W consoles like that. If you watch craigslist for a while, you may find something in better shape at a much lower price.
The caveman "repair" does not inspire confidence. For all you know, the set has a smoked power transformer or dead CRT and someone gave up on it when the first fix-it attempt didn't work.
Just my $0.02.
Phil Nelson
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