The end of the world is near...

[Dave A]

And it is inside a RCA 17" or so hacked by the audio fiends. My head is spinning from the description. What...no cryogenically frozen and tempered Edison outlets for better frequency response at 8762.588Hz? How can this thing operate? And nary a Monster cable in sight. Fishtankers are starting to look good compared to this delusional conversion. Now I know what to do with my RA-109! And it is restored and working.

Viewing is NSFC (not safe for collectors). Your eyes will scar and you will never see lollipop color again. You will just hear it and you will wander the earth repeating his description on street corners.

Pix uploads are not working here tonight. View at your own risk.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1954-RCA-Vic...item3cfd641143

[hi_volt]

Ouch......now I'll be forced to gouge my own eyes out.....

$2500??? Hahahahah

[Jon A.]

Ooh, burn. Audiophool snobbery mixed with hipster tacky, that must be a highly unstable combination.

I can't say I'm surprised by the asking price.

[Olorin67]

hate to see a nice set ruined like that. Back in college I thought about making a guitar amp out of a ugly 60s Zenith 19" b&W.. Use the chassis, transformer & audio output trans, and put a speaker where the CRT was, but never got that far. I parted out a couple 15 years ago when I was moving and didnt have room, I had like 5 of them ...those sets used to be plentiful $5-10 garage slae items back in the 80s, Wouldn't do that now, unless the set wasnt savable. I did keep the 3 best ones. I did save the power transformers for future tube amp or radio restorations. I must have had at least 10 Zenith B&W sets from 1960-1970 or so at one time. Every single one of them worked OK. when i got it from a garage sale, although a couple had crts that wernt so bright anymore.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Olorin67

hate to see a nice set ruined like that. Back in college I thought about making a guitar amp out of a ugly 60s Zenith 19" b&W.. Use the chassis, transformer & audio output trans, and put a speaker where the CRT was, but never got that far. I parted out a couple 15 years ago when I was moving and didnt have room, I had like 5 of them ...those sets used to be plentiful $5-10 garage slae items back in the 80s, Wouldn't do that now, unless the set wasnt savable. I did keep the 3 best ones. I did save the power transformers for future tube amp or radio restorations. I must have had at least 10 Zenith B&W sets from 1960-1970 or so at one time. Every single one of them worked OK. when i got it from a garage sale, although a couple had crts that wernt so bright anymore.

You wouldn't happen to have saved the vert. out transformers from those (I could use one)?

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Olorin67

hate to see a nice set ruined like that.

Thats 1 of the idiot sheeple of today who think TODAYS GARBAGE is so good and they dont give a crap about the PURITY of the past!!!

[Dave S]

Well, he put over $2,500 worth of parts and labor into it, so OF COURSE it's worth that much! Now pay up. ;-)

[Username1]

EM made that !

Com'on admit it that's your contraption ! !

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[pac.attack76]

Ridiculous and just plain sickening. Good luck getting $2500. What a joke.

[Electronic M]

No, my 17" metal RCA is the older 4 knob/NO pencil box version.....Might get that treatment if whatever put it back on the DL is expensive though.

Not exactly a nice thing to do, but at least the set they did it to is far from being a rare set.

[jr_tech]

The newer (pencil box ) version quite likely had the metal cone 17CP4 crt, which was likely gassy anyway and hard to find. Not an uncommon set anyway, IMHO not a great loss.

jr

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

The newer (pencil box ) version quite likely had the metal cone 17CP4 crt, which was likely gassy anyway and hard to find. Not an uncommon set anyway, IMHO not a great loss.

jr

That model used both, the all glass and the metal cone CRT's
The 17QP4, glass and the 17CP4 metal cone CRT.
I have the four knob version that uses the 17QP4. Mine has the voltage doubler, using selenium rectifiers. The newer version uses a 5U4 and a 5Y3, which I like a little better.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

That model used both, the all glass and the metal cone CRT's
The 17QP4, glass and the 17CP4 metal cone CRT.
I have the four knob version that uses the 17QP4. Mine has the voltage doubler, using selenium rectifiers. The newer version uses a 5U4 and a 5Y3, which I like a little better.

IIRC my 4 knober uses the all glass CRT AND has the 5U4-5Y3 dual rectifier set up....

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

IIRC my 4 knober uses the all glass CRT AND has the 5U4-5Y3 dual rectifier set up....

So does mine! To me (having both at one time and running out of room), it was a pretty easy decision to keep the older 4 knob version and turn loose of the later version (pencil box) that had a weak (going gassy) metal CRT.

jr

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

So does mine! To me (having both at one time and running out of room), it was a pretty easy decision to keep the older 4 knob version and turn loose of the later version (pencil box) that had a weak (going gassy) metal CRT.

jr

The 4 knob version with the tube rectifiers, was a strange model for RCA. It has a 21MHZ IF and a penthode tuner, 6J6/6CB6. It must've been the BOTL model, that year.
The 4 knob version, with the voltage doubler, has the cascode tuner, 6BQ7A/6X8 and the 41MHZ IF.
RCA was an early player, with the 41MHZ IF.