[Chad Hauris]

In my opinion it is wise to save the tube type sets even if they are junkers, there is no more of those parts being made! At least save the chassis and the crt's if they are good. It's a shame to throw anything away. I keep seeing fewer and fewer and fewer of the tube type TV's at estate sales, etc. so it is not yet a problem of me having too many of those type of sets as I hardly find any anymore.

DRH, in 50 yrs those of us on this board and maybe a few others will probably have the only surviving examples of tube type TV sets outside of maybe the Smithsonian or something! Like I have said they are already starting to get pretty scarce. I don't think they will be dumpstered then...It would be like trashing an Atwater Kent radio or a Victrola today, or hauling a Model T to the junkyard...pretty rare.

I had a lot of 1980's solid state sets that I had collected from the recycling days and that I had found through the years that I really wasn't using, most of them worked. Donated them to the thrift store and was so glad to see them sell.
The only time I have really thrown away TV's recently has been junky old cabinets of 70's and 80's non-working consoles. All of the parts, I salvaged before disposing of the cabinets.