What Year Is This Set ?

[Oldstuff78]

Does anyone here know what year this old RCA set is ? I'm guessing early 1950's. it screams "I Love Lucy"

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-RCA-Vict...QQcmdZViewItem

[David Roper]

1954 or '55.

Long after the episode in which the Ricardos buy the Mertzes a TV set and end up in court. That was IIRC, a 1952 Westinghouse.

[hposter]

It's a 1953 model, the 21-D-317...the "Merritt" (yep, 2 R's and 2 T's)!

21AP4 CRT, 21" Deluxe TVs (so says RCA's Service Manual--1953-T4).

[David Roper]

I stand corrected. It's not a color set though.


That's a reference to it being posted in the color forum and probably not to anything else....

[Oldstuff78]

I knew I would get Busted for it being in the color forum. ....but I like to be a rebel.

It is a nice set though.

[wa2ise]

I plugged it in to test, (!) and there was a slight box of snow showing, but it stayed at about one-fourth of the whole screen, and I could get no sound

That likely means that the unobtanium parts are likely good (CRT, flyback, yoke, vertical out, power transformer) and is thus probably restorable.

[Eric H]

Looks like it has the CT-100 type tuner and knob.

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Looks like it has the CT-100 type tuner and knob.

You're 100% correct! It has the same tuner (KRK-12), and the same knobs. The CT-100 version is a KRK-12C, so it may have a more selective design, or something. Only physical difference is in the center dial, which has that sporty arrow-looking thing on the B&W set, and is a plain brass disk on the CT-100. The pencil box door is also identical to the CT-100, but of course has different control holes drilled. I've used one of those on a CT-100 by drilling more holes

Charles