"Vintage" color TV

[Phil Nelson]

I bet he can sell those as fast as he makes 'em. I have sometimes thought of giving a restored TV to family members, but I know they'd never actually watch a 10" b/w set. They would use and enjoy something like this, though.

BTW, what does BPC mean? I did an acronym search and got things like Blueprint Copy and British Potato Council . . . .

Phil

[sampson159]

i have one of those too!i had no choice.i got just the cabinet of a stromberg carleson.i retrofitted a zenith system3 from the early 90s.it looks very good and most people think it is original.they say how great the picture looks and when i get the remote and put on screen display......they know they been had!

[DaveWM]

black plastic carp

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

I bet he can sell those as fast as he makes 'em. I have sometimes thought of giving a restored TV to family members, but I know they'd never actually watch a 10" b/w set. They would use and enjoy something like this, though.

BTW, what does BPC mean? I did an acronym search and got things like Blueprint Copy and British Potato Council . . . .

Phil

I find it odd that the contour of the CRT in the more modern set appears to match the mask so well... If one were retrofitting older sets in general, it might be difficult to match the surface contours so well. The mask does not appear to have been reshaped, but perhaps it has been.

Black Plastic Cr*p

jr

[wa2ise]

I suppose one could modify an old TV set cabinet to accept a flat screen display. By removing the CRT bezel and replacing that with some wood door frame trim or such to create the 16 by 9 rectangular hole to be filled by said flat screen. And I'd try to make the knobs serve a function, if only pushing on them press buttons for channel up and down volume up and down... Valid only if the cabinet has a missing chassis and CRT...

Of course you end up replacing the flat screen more often than you had to replace CRTs in the day...