Unusual Travler console TV on eBay

[decojoe67]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1951-Travle...4AAOSwqqRdpS11
I've never seen this one before with the push-button tuning. I would date it more like '48-'49, not '51.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1951-Travle...4AAOSwqqRdpS11
I've never seen this one before with the push-button tuning. I would date it more like '48-'49, not '51.

According to a gentleman that worked a Travler, the Chicago plant, told me the tuner was made by Hallicrafters.
It's probably a 1950 model.

[Kevin Kuehn]

FWIW it's in Sams 86-11 dated 2/50.

[vortalexfan]

It appears to be a very early version of veractor tuning...

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

It appears to be a very early version of veractor tuning...

Varactors? In 1950? Kinda doubt it.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Varactors? In 1950? Kinda doubt it.

I said it looks like an early version of a veractor tuner, and the reason why I said that was because this TV uses push buttons to tune the stations in on the TV much like how the Veractor tuners work, except that unlike a veractor tuner the pushbutton channel settings on this TV are fixed rather than tunable to different stations like the veractor tuners are.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

It appears to be a very early version of veractor tuning...

My neighbor had the next years model Travler, a 16" model using a 16TP4.
That had a similar chassis but with a one tube continuous tuner, using just one 12AT7. The tuner was made by R/C and two knobs, one for high and low band and one for tuning, 2-6 and 7-13. A strange one at that.

[old_coot88]

I once had a little 14" Sears 'flat' table model with a tuning system I never seen before or since. It had 3 concentric shafts, the outermost one for hi-lo bandswitch, the middle one drove a pointer, and the innermost one was continuous-tuning.

The bandswitch knob was big, about 3" in diameter. It turned 180 degrees to select hi or lo band. Half its face was calibrated in channels 2 - 6, and the other half in channels 7 - 13.

The pointer (on the middle shaft) was direct coupled to a 'radio-style' tuning cap gang, and pointed to the selected channel.

The continuous-tuning knob (on the innermost shaft) drove the capacitor gang and was verniered about 3:1.

IIRC, the tubes were 6J6 and 6CB6.

[maxhifi]

That's a nice looking TV, very clean lines. Wish I was closer!