Late 50s philco curb find

[Charlie]

JGlenn, I have one of those. Got mine just before Hurricane Rita, and that was what we had to watch during the storm as the new color set I had wouldn't pick up crap during that windy night!

I spent a couple of days going thru it... had lots of stuff to replace. Someone had already done a lot of work on the deflection board... looked like work from the 60's or 70's judging by the caps used. I found the chassis pretty easy to work on.

Back then, Don pointed out this was a great chassis as far as performance, and he was right! Once I re-capped everything, this baby played great, and still does today! I watch this very regularly, and haven't done a thing to it since the re-cap. In fact, I watched it last night for several hours. The sound is great on it as well! Mine actually had tubes in it date-coded from 1983 when I got it! The CRT had been replaced in the 60's.

This is one of my favorite sets... and to think I nearly turned it down! Glad I didn't!

Hope yours goes as easily as mine did!