Prototype set is here

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Originally Posted by Bill Cahill

I have a 21" SC in a Chinese painted cabinet that would work better, and, changes could be made to that. It's certainly deep enough.

SC is not RCA and being 21", it's certainly a square set that would require extensive mods. Not a good choice, the whole front panel would have to be fabricated from scratch. Plus, I find the Chinese cabinets repulsive. This set was home grown in the USA, I'd like to keep it looking like it was.

250 Is a bit rich, plus shipping, as you certainly didn't pay that much. I didn't know it was on ebay, or I just may have tried to save it.

What the hell do you know about what I paid for this set? Bill with all due respect you have no place to tell me what's high or low here, or make speculations on what's fair. I know what I paid and believe me, selling it at $250 would be taking a loss. To want to save this is one thing, but then to come in here and tell me what's fair is a little beyond me. You'll just have to find another one.

I really like that set, and, wish I could find such a nice one.

Then I respectfully suggest that you keep watching Ebay and CL as I did and find your own, or wait and see if I don't end up needing this one. Bantering back and forth with me on this is pointless, until I make my decision.

I'm not knocking your prototype. Indeed, I'm fully supportive of you getting it going again. But, first, what is the real problem with saving the case it's in?

What case? The case it's in is the TC-168. The one it was shipped in was far beyond repair, I tossed it a long time ago.

If worse comes to worse, I have a 1951 RCA 17" metal tube with full doors , and, a nice curved front that I'm not in love with. Wanna trade?

I'm not interested in spending more money on a cabinet I may or may not use, wait and see what I decide. If I don't need the 168, you can PM me and we'll haggle.

Please don't get so upset. I was just trying to ask if there was something better you could use.

Who is upset? I will choose what I choose, it's my decision. If I don't end up with the 168, it will be in the classifieds. Again, I don't much care what B&W set this used to be. There were far more TC sets made than field test sets, I have no reservations about using this cabinet. I could see if it was a 621 or something, but as far as I'm concerned it's no different than any other 50's 16" set.


Kevin: There are no mounting tabs on the chassis, but that doesn't mean it wasn't in a cabinet. Again, we don't know what RCA did to the other prototypes. Maybe none of them had tabs.