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[Steve McVoy]

When he posted the ad I told him the set was worth $50 max.

[Ampico-kid]

Hi Gang;

Yesterday I made the trip to check out this set. It is a Crosley, and it looked pretty rough. I was almost certain the crt would be a hopeless cause from the looks of it. To my amazement when I hooked it up to my crt tester it darn near pinned the meter! What a pleasant surprise. It's a 12" round tube and apparently is in excellent condition.

I decided to take the set after all. I paid the owner $25 and we loaded it and it's table/stand onto my truck and off I went. It's missing some sort of a disc or plate around the tuning knob which I'd guess is also why there are no channel numbers visible, but for $25 I can't complain too much.

I havent figured out the model or chassis number yet. I'll let you know when I get it up and running.

Bob.

[Ampico-kid]

Just wanted to give you all a final report on the sad little 1950 Crosley I picked up out of a basement in Jersey City NJ for $25.00 early last month.

It turned out to be a fairly simple restoration with the most difficult part being the undoing of all the crummy repair work done on it in past years. Aside from that it was just a matter of replacing caps and off value resistors and a few weak or bad tubes. The picture tube looks great and was replaced at some point with a crt from an outfit in Newark, NJ called Mercury Picture Tubes. I guess the only negative I can say is that the channel indicator is missing. The knob that is used to turn the station selector is there, but the indicator that sat behind it and displayed the channel number is missing. All in all it doesn't look too bad though.

Now it runs like a champ and seems very happy in it's new home.

On to the next challenge.

Bob.