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Originally Posted by marty59
This is the later chassis style other than the common flat clone used on the earlier rectangle as well as round tube sets. During this time period the cabinets were still generally well made.
I've seen Emerson's from this time period that looked similar but had different trim/bezel colors to differentiate from the DuMont's.
Doug you'd be right about that vertical board being problematic especially back in the day.
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That model was just another RCA CTC15 clone, right down to the tube compliment.
The Milwaukee Emerson distributor, had a repair shop that would repair the sets, that were DOA.
He went to the Emerson plant in Jersey City for a service seminar. He was telling me, there was a reason why the chassis was assembled that way. The chassis were assembled on the upper floors and hand carried, to the first floor, where the cabinets and CRT's were. They didn't have a freight elevator!
That's the reason why the top brace is rounded, like a handle.
That was a time, when they were more or less, on the way out and didn't want to make the investment.