GE 12T1 CL find

[Eric H]

Kept telling myself no, no, I'm not going to go look at this... well, it's in my Kitchen now.

It was only 30 miles away and looked clean so I took a drive over with my CRT checker, rule is, no more sets with bad CRT's.
It started out looking bad so I turned it up to 8 volts for about 60 seconds, it gradually climbed well into the good range so I turned it off for a bit then retested it at normal voltage, it still checked great, dropped it down to about 5 volts and it still held good so I bought the set. When I got home I tested the CRT one more time, it went way into the good range in just the time it took to set up the tester!

The drive home sucked due to construction, an hour to go two miles!

When I got here I tried the set on the Variac and got some static from the speaker but noticed the 6BG6 and a few other tubes weren't lighting.

I recalled that this chassis has a split series heater string so I went looking for missing tubes and found the Damper and 1B3 were gone, replaced those and the heaters all lit but I still got nothing, and it started to smell hot so I shut it down.

It'll need recapped. I have a complete spare chassis from a console I junked and another from a 10" Locomotive if I need any hard parts, but that's a ways down the road, lots of other projects ahead of it.

It's missing the back, anyone have a spare hanging around? or a picture of what it looks like, metal, hardboard?

GE sure liked Brass back then!