21" Maple Philco

[Charlie]

Picked this up yesterday north of Houston just outside of Beltway 8. I got this set from the same guy I got my CTC9 from last year. It a split-chassis Philco 21"... Sams 231-12 (dated Feb 1954). The set is in REALLY nice condition.

This set has a 21ZP4A. It was pretty sleepy at first... hardly moving the meter. Heating it up to 8 volts woke it up some. Earlier, I used the "clean" function and got really good results... well up into the green now. I will check it again later from a cold start and see how it does. I was certainly glad that this set didn't have a 21EP4!

It has the cool UHF tuner in the middle. However, after looking in there, I found that someone has completely disconnected the UHF... the coaxial, the B+ and heater plug, and the antenna leads. Interesting. I wonder why. Perhaps there was a serious problem with the UHF? Houston always had a handful of UHF channels... I wonder what might have made someone disconnect it.

Headed out the door right now for a CL lead on some 50's portables... nothing great, but might score some good CRT's!