Swoop! Got a 19" roundie Kaye-Halbert on CL in West LA today!

[kx250rider]

Originally Posted by nasadowsk

Good luck on the 19AP4!

Very true... I've had pretty good luck over the years, but I hear that lately it's getting harder to find a good one.

The neck is clean & clear, and the TV worked last time it was used, according to the lady. Since it's been in a livingroom in the steady climate of West Los Angeles (no humidity or extremes of cold nor hot), maybe I'll luck out. I'll take my B&K 467 over there tomorrow if I get a chance, and check it. I'm probably not going to try to variac it up, as it's been at least 30 years since it was plugged in. I have other working/recapped 242 chassis left over from a few unfortunate Kaye-Halberts from the 1988 fire, so I could swap in a recapped chassis if I wanted to make it a working set quickly.

Originally Posted by jpdylon

Great find!



Very simple looking chassis - were these simple like the muntz sets, were they modeled after another manufacturer, or where they a design all their own?

They're fairly unique, but as with most all sets, it's basically an RCA licensing lab circuit. It does have 25 tubes, but the chassis underneath is fairly clean and empty. They had a unique feature where the flyback and high voltage tubes are under the chassis, as many of them were in custom cabinets without backs, or with the chassis naked in a closet in built-ins. They also had one with a DX front end, which had a hotter tuner and an extra IF. Never seen one, but I have the schematic. They also used two LV rectifier tubes, which seemed to give more stable B+. In fact, they are quite stable overall (when recapped now, or back when new). So much so, that the only controls are on-off-vol, contrast, and channel/fine tune. All other controls are behind, which is idealistic, I'd say. I have the feeling that after using one of these sets for a few days, most owners wished they had the controls on the front. For the 1953 model year, the controls were all switched to the front of the chassis with an access door.

Originally Posted by zenith2134

Very cool set. Congrats, Charles!

Thanks! Glad to have found it... I got my first Kaye-Halbert set in 1977 when I was 10 years old, and been hoarding them ever since. Never had a Windsor before, except for a real junker full of termites.

Charles