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Originally Posted by Electronic M

On a set like that the CRT and cabinet alone are probably worth around 200$, start adding stuff like tubes to that and that set starts to have a good amount of value as is.

On both the buying and the selling end I wish that we could consider the worth of the tubes. If you are letting go of a set with a good set of tubes and you have new capacitors or whatnot in it, most sets would command more than they typically do. I know that sets like this Admiral fall more into the true "collectable" category so I'm just generalizing. So generally you might get $50 for some average 50s set for instance. It really doesn't cover the tubes, much less the C.R.T.

Recently, due to space and a woman I have had to dump sets at local thrift stores and as much as I hate to do it I remove the tubes. Who wouldn't unless they were completely getting out of vintage electronics? I hate to do it because I feel that it lessens the potential of another person successfully getting the set going, thus increasing dumpster potential, or even worse fish tanking!

Bottom line I guess is we have a hobby, and like restoring automobiles or any other (unless you collect gold and silver) hobby, it's more about the love than the money. Inversely you will get your heart broke.