While picking up a different set I bought from Justin's "hoard," this Andrea T-VK12 caught my eye. It's a set I've been interested in acquiring some day, so I picked up this one from him as well.
It came without a picture tube, and two knobs are missing (focus and radio tuning). It appeared to have no service work done on it previously, except for some updated tubes. Most tubes were dated April 1949, but there were a number from 1952. There was evidence of one or two blown electrolytics, and a dead 5U4 rectifier. With a full recap, a new 5U4 and a few other weak tubes replaced, a good squirt of DeOxit into the Inductuner, and some mechanical lubrication of both the radio and TV tuners, it came to life very nicely. Here I'm subbing a 12JP4 in place of the missing 12QP4 CRT.
No alignment touch up was necessary -- not even for the sound.
There's a bit of herringbone interference in the above picture from my nearby DTV converter box. I'll take a nicer picture sometime in the future and post it -- perhaps when the set is all done.
The cabinet is pretty decent, and will look very good after refinishing sometime in the near future.
I like the dial -- you push the tune control knob inward to momentarily light the dial when it is operating in TV mode. I guess they didn't want the dial competing with the picture in terms of lighted stuff on the front of the set. In radio mode, the dial lights up continuously.
Anyone have two spare knobs for this model? The function is printed on each knob individually, but I'd be happy with any matching knobs, even if they don't have the correct functions printed on them.