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Originally Posted by Eric H
According the the Radio museum it was a large combo unit. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/fada_895895.html
It was almost certainly an RCA 630 design with whatever mods it needed to work with the 12" tube and other components. It may or may not slide right in an RCA Cabinet. |
The 10 and 12" round CRTs (and IIRC some 16s with the same deflection angle) could be driven by the same unmodified chassis the only difference being CRT/yoke mechanical mounting hardware.
I have a Stromberg Carlson TV-10 which is their TV-12* with a just a wood shim added to the mounting to accommodate the smaller CRT.
* Which is just a rebadged Dumont RA103 Chatham chassis in a Stromberg designed cabinet.
If you can figure out which RCA it best matches getting a new IF can should be fairly easy.
RCA successfully licensed the '630' chassis from 1946 to 1960 (as time went on licensees piled on mods to add AGC and large screen CRT support).
Cabinet wise you could probably use an RCA cabinet or any clone cabinet if you're not set on the exact FADA cabinet. The first two RCA sets the 630TS and 8TS30 used IIRC a wider knob layout than the later ones like the 8T241 and 9T246. Heck you could even build a custom cabinet as homage to the configuration you remember.
If you can't find a 12" cabinet you like you could get a 10" CRT and swap to it....lots of options.