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Originally Posted by miniman82
Vintage TV's are a crap shoot as best anyway. Half the time you get some dope who thinks he's sitting on a goldmine of a rare set that usually ends up being some mid 50's common as the hills RCA set, the other half you get the one you're after for beans. No rhyme or reason to it, really.
I picked up my first vintage set off the curb, and it had a new testing CRT. I paid $400 to get my CTC-7 in non-working condition here from Seattle, and the CTC-4 turned up misadvertized as a B&W set for $150 along with a working Zenith roundie. Go figure.
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That's why I invested in a CRT tester (40bucks) that has saved me hundreds and hundreds so far and will continue to save me money into the future. I don't buy from ebay or any set that I can't go and look at and pick up in my hand. One seller on CL here local took four pictures of a 50's set and not one of them showed any damage. I went to look at it and had to reject it because it was a mess.
That being said I think that CRT is a 7JP4. and somewhere on this forum or AntiqueRadio forum collectors were saying that they have never found a bad 7JP4 in a used set. I have three sets with that CRT that I bought before I had a tester. They were all good. The CRT is worth 50. If the set has all the knobs they are worth about 30 bucks and if the cabinet and chassis are all togher and not damaged there's another 40 bucks. So on this one you can't loose. It would be nice if it had a back and a lid for the front but you can probably find those around.