Show us your vintage B&W sets!

[sean]

Maybe they are a "museum" in the same sense as a certain radio "museum" in St. Louis.

[rca2000]

It is from 1960, sams #506,and is chassis #15e1. It is a cold chassis, with a 5u4, mounted ABOVE the transformer, on a little shelf, not attached to the transformer itself(guess this was done for beter heat dissipation). The chassis is pretty nice, with 14 tubes plus the CRT. It is in real good shape, with all knobs in place, but missing the antenna.

The cabinet is metal,kind of a tan color, wit a silverish front. and there is no UHF, and does not appear an option for it.


I took it in the house, gave it a while to warm up, and opened it up. after some preliminary checks, I decided to "fire 'er up".

SHE LIVES! I have a crt, that is in quite good shape, and not the original(it has an RCA silverama tube I am not sure if it has a date code of 64 or 66, 'cause I think the number I saw was "646something"

I have a decent picture, and pretty good reception. fly is good, and does not get hot after 10 min.or so. The caps are marginal, as the vertical started creeping up from the bottom, after about an hour(proabbly the cathode bypass cap).

All in all, it is a good find. Best off, the price was right-- FREE! A garbage find, right on my own street. I ALMOST missed it, it was between a garbage can, and another bag, and looked from the side to be a box. But somethng kept telling me it was not, so ,I went back to check, and saw the knobs on the side. At first ,it looked like a Zenith, then, after I got it home, I discovered It was an Admiral. No matter.

This is the second week in a row, i have found an old tv, near my house, in my own neighborhood, and it has been a LONG time, since I found much of ANYTHING, in this area.(see my thread on the Sony kv-9000, to find out about tonight's find) And, this was ONE house down, from where I found the MR-71 tuner, 3 years ago, that I sold on the bay, for $600, that same year.


I took a couple of pictures, but I still have to reload my camera software into my computer, after my loss of my hard drive, earlier this month. I'll get them up, soon.

[classicradios]

Just experimenting with a new Digital Camera so thought I would post a few pictures. These photos were taken with the Nikon 5200 in the "Sunset" mode.
The video source is from a DVD I bought for a dollar at a Dollar store.
Jim

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by classicradios

Just experimenting with a new Digital Camera so thought I would post a few pictures. These photos were taken with the Nikon 5200 in the "Sunset" mode.
The video source is from a DVD I bought for a dollar at a Dollar store.
Jim

Jim, that is a sweeet looking Porthole! I love that cabinet style with the smooth wraparound corners.

[classicradios]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Jim, that is a sweeet looking Porthole! I love that cabinet style with the smooth wraparound corners.

It is a great console TV, By far my favorite. Many many sets have come and gone but this one always remains. Eric, Do you still have that metal cone 12UP4 CRT? That You mentioned in the other thread. Sure could use it to finish up the tabletop version Porthole set I have. (Same model year as my console)

I've only seen the dollar DVD's at Wallmart and a few Dollar stores. I bought Jack Benny (3 episodes on the DVD) and TV Detectives. I also have the TV connected to Tivo so when TV Land broadcasts something decent I record it and play it back on the vintage set. TVland has been quite a dissapointment lately with shows like Wings, Macgyver, etc... When will they bring back the Honeymooners! or more 1950's shows. Oh well, I have plenty on DVD now anyway.
Jim

[Eric H]

Jim, I haven't heard from anyone wanting it for the $25 Porthole yet, so unless someone let's me know real soon that they bought that set and want it, it's yours.

Eric

[Steve K]

Eric:

I'm picking up the $25 porthole set tomorrow. I wanted to test the crt first before I gave you a call. I do have a good 12LP4 that might work in that set with some slight modification.

Steve