RCA Chassis KCS88K , anyone have any info on this?

[kramden66]

I just thought i'd ask since some of the guys here know a lot about chassis and could shed some light on it , i checked the crt and it is real good.

mike

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by kramden66

I just thought i'd ask since some of the guys here know a lot about chassis and could shed some light on it , i checked the crt and it is real good.

mike

The set was RCA's first, re-design models. IIRC, it was the first RCA, to use an audio output tube voltage divider. That model was a lot simpler, than the previous models. As a result, they're easier to restore.
Yours is a UHF model, that had a cascode tuner and a better AGC circuit. They work well, when restored.

[kramden66]

audio output tube as a voltage divider - why ?

mike

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by kramden66

audio output tube as a voltage divider - why ?

mike

Output stage does double duty as a B+ dropping resistor. Saves cost of a large power resistor, reduces parts count.

[Electronic M]

Reminds me of one that is rotting about half a mile from the family cabin.

[Phil Nelson]

Similar to my family's first TV. That set logged a lot of hours over the years!

http://antiqueradio.org/MyFirstTV.htm

Phil Nelson

[compucat]

Those RCAs from the Fifties really seem to be built for long service life.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

Output stage does double duty as a B+ dropping resistor. Saves cost of a large power resistor, reduces parts count.

Also slightly less power consumption.
All manufacturers seemed to use it alot. Just about any set that used a 6AS5, 6W6, 6Y6, 6BF5, 25L6, 12L6, as an audio output.
Also reffered to as stacked B+.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Reminds me of one that is rotting about half a mile from the family cabin.

Hell, someone over in one of the color TV forums is restoring a set almost as beat up as that one... http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=258006

[truetone36]

That model's from 1954, IIRC. I have two of them. One's in fair shape, and the other looks like the one Electronic M posted the pic of. Both are missing the channel selector knobs, however.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Hell, someone over in one of the color TV forums is restoring a set almost as beat up as that one... http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=258006

I wonder who that nut is? LOL.

If I had not had the misguided idea when I was around 10 years old to smash the CRT neck to discharge that lethal high voltage that was sitting there all those years, I'd have dragged it home and started messing with it years ago..... I did take most of it's tubes though.

[kramden66]

the one that is rotting away has a chanel selector knob , theres your chance of getting one

mike

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Hell, someone over in one of the color TV forums is restoring a set almost as beat up as that one... http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=258006

And doing a "bang up" job of it too.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I wonder who that nut is? LOL.

If I had not had the misguided idea when I was around 10 years old to smash the CRT neck to discharge that lethal high voltage that was sitting there all those years, I'd have dragged it home and started messing with it years ago..... I did take most of it's tubes though.

The rusty model shown, is the slightly newer model.
It might be a KCS92, which was simular, but had 90 degree sweep and a few changes in the tube lineup.
Both models were the first RCA's to use PC boards in the IF and audio circuits.

[Electronic M]

Funny, I don't recall seeing any PC boards in that RCA, though it is so full of leaves I could imagine not seeing it under all that.