I have only one other TV here besides my daily watcher RCA CTC185. The other set is a ten-year-old Zenith SMS1917SG Sentry 2 19" in my bedroom, which will replace the RCA if anything happens to the latter. The Zenith works amazingly well for having ten years on it; original CRT and a great picture on cable here in my small town. In fact, I think my Zenith set has a better picture than the RCA. I've been tempted more than once to put the Zenith in the living room and use the CTC185 RCA as the standby set, but the RCA has such a good picture in its own right I can't bring myself to do it just yet. I think I'll wait until the RCA dies before I do that. However, the RCA has worked like a champ the last six years and continues to do so, so I may be waiting a little while yet before putting the Sentry 2 into daily watcher service again (that set was my daily watcher for four years in the mid-'90s--1995 to 1999; it worked well then and still does to this day--that's Zenith quality for you).
BTW, to Truetone36, I know the feeling of having to leave old TVs behind when moving. In the late '60s to 1972 I had a nice collection of old sets in the basement of my former home, then I moved (the first time) and had to get rid of all but three of them. Six years ago I moved again, within the same area (from a suburb of Cleveland to a village about ten miles outside the metropolitan area), this time to a small apartment (where I live now). No room for old TVs here, but I do have a small collection of vintage tube and transistor radios.
When I see an old TV set on the curb here I am tempted to grab it (if it's a portable--I saw a 1980s-vintage RCA 12" b&w portable not far from my apartment about three years ago), but then I remember the fact that there's just no room here for any more large sets. I like Zenith TVs and radios (I like the quality of the older ones, but cannot abide the Zenith-branded LGs), so maybe if I can find a small set of that make, say a 5" Zenith portable with AM/FM radio (on ebay, for instance), I might bid on it. I saw one of these on the bay last year and wish I'd have latched on to it, but there will be others, I'm sure.
