[West]

I once worked at a school district where a guy had one of these CBS sets in the CCTV studio we built. This was in the 1960s.

I never did see the 19VP22, because it had long before been replaced with a 21AXP22. The front mask had been roughly cut larger for the 21-inch tube.

The set worked, but the AX had a low-emission blue gun, so they went to a parts supply place in Riverside (CA) and bought a rebuilt 21CYP22. It wasn't long before the neck just fell off the tube. Another replacement did the same. Eventually a new RCA tube was installed which didn't have the same problem.

It was impossible to converge the set. I always thought it was because of the change of tube sizes, but otherwise the set made decent pictures. A look under the chassis revealed places where parts had previously burned up, like several chassis-mounted wire-wound power resistors that had shorted out and been replaced by some non-chassis-mounted types.

The video leads in the two inter-chassis cables were always having to be repaired as they seemed to come undone very easily. Turning on the set always made a visible surge in the room lights.

Unlike the cabinet in your photos, this set, although mahogany, was finished in an odd greenish color, and the fiber panel behind the front controls as well as the tube mask were sort of pale green as I recall, not brown as in your photos.

I don't know what happened to the set after I left that job. It certainly was a monster.