Capehart Farnsworth 661P Aquisition

[David Roper]

The mask is no doubt original to that set. The grill cloth on the other hand....

[pendulum]

Originally Posted by David Roper

The mask is no doubt original to that set. The grill cloth on the other hand....

Forgot to mention that. Grill cloth is for sure a replacement, there are still remnants of the original style. It is the same red with gold diamonds as other versions of this set have.

[Phil Nelson]

Great score -- congratulations! This set has an interesting electronic design, with air variable capacitors in the tuner and an outboard horizontal/AFC chassis, and it performs well after restoration.

This article has some restoration notes on the 661-P:

http://antiqueradio.org/CapehartFarn...Television.htm

If you send me an email via http://antiqueradio.org/contact.htm, I'll send you some close-up photos of the knobs on mine.

Regards,

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Radiotronman]

Great early set, awesome find!

[ronl]

Very interesting pendulum,
a different version of this farnsworth chassis. i have gotten help from the arf forum with my 651p and learned a lot about this chassis over the years. never seen this version! chassis is very simular but that mask is different. hardware around the crt neck is different too.i have a unique tuner but might because it was for the canadian market? i discovered the arf forum after finding some data there after years of searching(owned this set since 1981). eventually found this site too.
here is the discusions on arf.
http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/...p?f=3&t=122536

http://www.antiqueradios.com/forums/...p?f=3&t=143501

im sure the arf forum (thanks for the service info Tim!!)can help you with the knobs.(thanks radio pup)!! help is here too.here is a youtube of my set when it was last ran.(when analog ntsc was on the air)
enjoy that set! there is not a lot out there.seen more ctc 100's online-lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EKBFUSVHF4


fyi-this set was very simular to the set that was used in the
addams family-the politician eposide.

RonL

[pendulum]

It's been a while, but I finally finished recapping the set and gave it a first power up. Results were pretty good considering I haven't replaced any of the resistors and I still need to replace one oddball capacitor I didn't have on hand.



On a side note, anyone know how many amps this set is supposed to draw? Right now mine is using almost 3 amps when I have it on 110 volts. I know there is a voltage selector on top of the transformer. I can move it and I put it in the middle, at three. I haven't found any information in the manual to what voltage each number is supposed to coordinate with.