[Charlie]

I managed to bring home that GE today. The guy let me have it for 40 bucks.

The set is not as pretty as Bob's GE... this one must be a little lower on the food chain as it has the faux panels instead of a veneer. They are not in the greatest of shape... lots of marks on the panels. One of the side panels is coming off at the bottom... but could be glued back in place very easily. At a later time, I think the cabinet could be easily restored... whether with real veneer or fake panels.

Some of the brightwork on the front suffers from a little corrosion. I might be able to clean it up a little, but not expecting a lot. The plastic looks like it should clean up nicely.

The inside looks complete... plenty of dirt in there. It looks like all the originals caps are in there. Looks like a few of the tubes have been changed (at least, there are some other brands other than GE).

A nice surprise was to find a good CRT. It was a bit sleepy at first. After cooking it for a little while, and then a cool down, I get the needle to the bottom of the good zone in the first 20 seconds, and then over the next minute or so, it slowly climbs to the top of the scale... so seems like I should get a good bright picture at some point.

I later noticed the CRT had been replaced... it has an RCA tube in there. According to the tube chart inside the cabinet, the original 21DEP4 had an ion trap. Bob, did you find an ion trap on yours?