Emerson TV, Can't Figure out What Year This Is?

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

One thing to note is that most makers back then put the same electronics in a wide assortment of cabinet options, sometimes having completely different control panel layouts on some models. I have sam's for a couple of my Zenith TV consoles where the screen size, cabinet, AND control panel look nothing like my sets, but from the chassis pictures and technical info it is clear that they are the the correct folders for my sets.

I can remember buying Sams photofact sets for about $5.95 at the parts jobber and seeing a set completely unlike the one I was trying to fix, then before I walked out, I pulled out the folder and saw the same tubes.

I have an Emerson 1657 (not a combo) with the same tuner and a fairly good 23CP4, also in Sams 502.
It's speaker is 8" round and below the CRT, same mahogany finish as Magnavox300's

Its possible the capacitor Old Coot Mentions is the screen grid bypass capacitor on pin 8 of the 6AW8 video amp.
This cap caused sync issues in RCA CTC7-9-11-12-16 IIRC