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Old 01-03-2009, 04:53 PM
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National TV-7W Television
I picked this up a few days ago. Pretty rare.

Needs a lot of work but a great deal. I paid $50.00.
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Nice find!
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Yes, nice find,, very cool.
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Wow....How's the CRT ? If it's OK, that's about 2/3-3/4 of the game right there...
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Very nice find! Was it an estate sale or what?

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I haven't checked out the CRT yet. You have to take it out of the cabinet and I have something on the work bench. I'm not worried, I have 4 7JP4 tubes. Also, I'm lucky to have the original 27 page service manual for the TV.
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Very cool. It wasn't till fairly recently that I discovered that National even made TVs.
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Excellent find, especially for that price. Congratulations.
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Nice! At first glance I thought it was my RCA 8T-243.
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I got it at a yard sale. My friends wife called me from a garage sale to say there was an old wood National TV in the driveway. It was about 5 minutes from my house and she said she would stay with it until I got there. It was a large old house - about 90 years old. The owners said they found it in the attic when they purchased the house. They asked for $75.00 but settled for $50.00.
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Was it National or Hallicrafters who made the 7 incher that had the VU meter in the case to measure signal strength ? Both outfits got into the TV business that seemed to be limitless right after the war, but soon found out they couldn't compete against the Muntzes of the world..Halli stayed in in long enuff to apparently make a few color sets, though, IIRC...
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National made a 7 inch metal model that had the vu meter. That is an extremely rare TV. Model TV-7M.
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National made a 7 inch metal model that had the vu meter. That is an extremely rare TV. Model TV-7M.
If you go to my TV-7W page, you can see an ad for the "Videometer" with the meter that measured both line voltage and field intensity.

http://www.antiqueradio.org/NationalTV-7W.htm

I would love to find one some day.

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Excellent web site.

Great pictures of the National and restoration tips.
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Its cool that your wife "stood guard" until you got there. Does she share interest in your hobby?
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