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Originally Posted by veg-o-matic
Thanks for the comments, guys! I know this is all old hat to most of you, but it's a big huge deal to me. Just the fact that I haven't electrocuted myself is cause for celebration! 
Not a sickness. It's a sign of a creative mind (I keep telling myself...)
My personal "creativity" goes way beyond TVs, though. Yeah, there's Troy the Olympic and Anthony the Heathkit (not to mention Allen the Dumont), but I also have Thor (my car), Cory the percolator, Connie my washer, Mitzi the cellphone, George the dishwasher, Marilyn the stereo...
If I were any more creative, I'd be in a rubber room.
Tony--no, haven't messed with Troy, though after my success with Laura I'm half tempted. I'm not sure if I'm on a roll or if I've used up all my TV luck!
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Congratulations, veg! It's a great feeling to get one of those old sets working, especially after someone else has given it up for dead. In the late '60s I had an old Zenith b&w 23" console TV I rescued from a neighbor's trash. Someone had filched every tube but the CRT and HV rectifier from it, but I retubed the set--and had a beautiful picture on all three VHF network stations in Cleveland the minute I turned it on after installing the last tube. The set's audio section and speaker (6BN6/6BQ5 audio stage and 6x9 oval speaker with a very heavy magnet) were so good I patched an old FM mono tuner into it--and it sounded great. Unfortunately, I moved about three years later, so this set had to go, along with half a basement full of other old cast-off TVs and radios, many of which I was able to get to work again. I wish I could have held on to the Zenith, especially after all the work I put into it, but...oh, well. I have several old Zenith radios where I live now, one of which is a table model in a wood cabinet, so I guess I'm making up for having to throw out all those TVs 30+ years ago--on a much smaller scale, of course, since I live in an apartment and have no room for any more TVs than I have now (an RCA in the living room and a Zenith in the bedroom). I had a Zenith 12" solid-state portable I bought new in 1978 which I had to give up when I moved here, for just that reason. Had the set 22 years; it was still working when I got rid of it. I saw a small Zenith TV/AM/FM radio (5-inch CRT) on ebay last night and was tempted to bid on it, but I passed it up. It's enough that I have five Zenith radios and several others (transistor portables) of various makes as it is; I can't afford to get hooked on collecting TVs again. Just don't have the room anymore. I suppose I could rent a storage locker somewhere if I decided to take up the hobby again, but now that I think of it, I'll stick to small radios for the time being. I had my fun with collecting old TV sets already, thirty-plus years ago.
BTW, on naming your TVs, appliances, etc. I don't think you'll be put in a rubber room if you keep it up. As long as you keep it to yourself (and us here at AK; believe me, we understand--at least I do) you'll be in the clear. I think the ability to come up with names for your equipment, appliances and such is great. I have an imagination like that myself, only I use it to come up with names for characters (and the cities/towns in which they "live" and in which the story takes place) in a story I'm presently writing.