Found a Videodyne on CL

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Eric H

I found an ad from May 1949 for this set, that's about all I could find, not much about this company out there.

I see, there was a distributor in Milwaukee, although I never saw one in this area. IIRC, the Videodyne sets were built out east, somewhere.
The Empire building has been torn down for about 40 years.
A little bit of history! I had some Wallace's Tel-aids, that were rubber stamped with the Radio-TV Labs, on North 11th St.
I'm not sure if I wanted buy a TV, from a firm named "Fink Engineering".
Steve Allen, used to have a lot of fun with the name "Fink" on his show.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Steve Allen, used to have a lot of fun with the name "Fink" on his show.

Used to stay up past my bedtime to watch that old Steve Allen show, the one syndicated by Westinghouse. Sure wish the Steve Allen estate would put out some of those on DVD. I've asked them to!

[Steve D.]

Videodyne set/w mask on display at the ETF Museum. Also a closeup of the knobs.

-Steve D.

[Kevin Kuehn]

It's beginning to look like they used a few different knob styles.

[broadcaster]

I've owned two Videodynes. They are neat sets. One thing to examine are the screws that attach the sub chassis to the main chassis. These work loose over time, and cause weird effects with ground loops. These sets were offered as kits, and were well designed. You have a rare winner!

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I'm not sure if I wanted buy a TV, from a firm named "Fink Engineering".
Steve Allen, used to have a lot of fun with the name "Fink" on his show.

I also remember sneaking a watch of Steve Allen's late show, but my mom would insist I turn it off and go to sleep. So I wouldn't fall asleep in Mrs Murphy's boring 4th grade class.

I was around 9 or so, and had thought "fink" was the "F" word. I was a little behind in my vocabulary at the time.

Someone with the name Donald Fink wrote a television broadcast reference book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_G._Fink

When this Videodyne TV was made, they may have gotten a great deal on surplus aluminum, as there was tons of it left over from WW2 military equipment manufacturing.

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

I also remember sneaking a watch of Steve Allen's late show, but my mom would insist I turn it off and go to sleep. So I wouldn't fall asleep in Mrs Murphy's boring 4th grade class.

I was around 9 or so, and had thought "fink" was the "F" word. I was a little behind in my vocabulary at the time.

Someone with the name Donald Fink wrote a television broadcast reference book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_G._Fink

When this Videodyne TV was made, they may have gotten a great deal on surplus aluminum, as there was tons of it left over from WW2 military equipment manufacturing.

Sorry to go OT. But... I went to Catholic school. In High School, 1962-66, we were taught by Marianist Brothers. I was brought in after school for using that word. I was very close to getting suspended. My, how times have changed...

[old_coot88]

Originally Posted by kvflyer

...I was brought in after school for using that word. I was very close to getting suspended. My, how times have changed...

What, for saying fink?

[kvflyer]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

What, for saying fink?

Yes, I was. Catholic school, goofy Marionist Brother.