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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
What is the chassis number on that one Tom? Something with an M in it?
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14M27 on the pictured one, 15K37 on the SC set. I have the sams for the SC set and 'I think' the Bietmans for the one with the stand....I have not really compared them, but the only glowing differences(asside from the SC and UHF options) are that the one with a stand has an extra side knob, and uses an actual B+ rectifier tube. The newer one(based on the silicone B+ rectifiers) actually could use a good service someday as the width takes a long while to fill out, and it sometimes don't start up with HV. I don't use them much so unless they decide to quit giving halfway decent performance I'll keep them as they are and save my resources for the many dead sets awaiting my care.
AiboPet: Folks were more open to carts then for two reasons aside from the investment. Subscription TV systems that tied sets to the cable outlet(or satelite) were rare then, and lugables like my 18" set were meant to be able to be moved around regularly(the cart only serves to take lifting it out of the equation).
AiboPet:Also I've been meaning to you say that a small apartment is not a real excuse not to collect big tube consoles. I was stuck in an apartment for a couple of years until a few months back when my folks (whom I'm living with to help keep college expenses down) bought a house. They only let me use my room and half the wall space in the garage before we got the house, and I had to get creative to fit everything I wanted to store.
Here are some pictures that give the idea of what I did to get the 8 or so TVs, ~40 antique radios, two cabinets of stereo/video equip, seemingly ton of LP's, and much much more random stuff in to my bed room, and still have room for the bed + floor space to do repairs.
I intentionally avoided taking a pic of the whole thing as I always had enough things going on that it was never organized enough for me to consider it worthy of being photographed....case in point you can fit as much in a space as it's volume will allow, and you can still fit a TON into a room yet retain plenty of floor space if you think 3-dimensionally and get shelves/stack things. What you can fit in to a space is only bounded by what you find(and can organize) to be acceptable (and of course the laws of physics
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That said there are smaller tube color sets like the table top roundy above, this 20" set(on right, below) that are manageable and can be watched by many people comfortably from across the room, as well as sizes as small as 11"(color sets smaller than 20" are generally less common).
They also made monochrome(black & white) tube sets in a WIDE variety of screen sizes, with screens anywhere between 3" and 20".
There are many cabinet styles and screen sizes to choose from that can be had cheap. If you keep your eyes open you can find models that are unobtrusive enough that you might decide to keep 5 tube sets around....There is some really nice stuff out there no matter what styles you like.