Cabinet and CRT only - rare '54 Westinghouse H840CK15

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by WISCOJIM

Who got it???

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Don't know, but it was gone EARLY this morning shortly after the original post.

But the asking price was only $50 - I wonder if someone local grabbed it to make an aquarium...

John

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Don't know, but it was gone EARLY this morning shortly after the original post.

But the asking price was only $50 - I wonder if someone local grabbed it to make an aquarium...

John

I saw it early and was tempted myself to hit the BIN. I posted it also on ARF, so I'm hoping I alerted a collector about it. The word is that someone got a heck of a deal just for the CRT. They have a higher survival rate than the RCA CT-100 model. How could anyone go wrong at $50.

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

I saw it early and was tempted myself to hit the BIN. I posted it also on ARF, so I'm hoping I alerted a collector about it. The word is that someone got a heck of a deal just for the CRT. They have a higher survival rate than the RCA CT-100 model. How could anyone go wrong at $50.

Makes me shudder at the thought of the buyer tossing the CRT into a dumpster on the way home with the cabinet..

John

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Makes me shudder at the thought of the buyer tossing the CRT into a dumpster on the way home with the cabinet..

John

Me too, but if the CRT didn't happen to be good (a probable scenario) it is not as big a loss... until rebuilding becomes more than a pipe dream duds are not going to be worth more than a restored monochrome set.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Makes me shudder at the thought of the buyer tossing the CRT into a dumpster on the way home with the cabinet..

John

I would suspect that a collector got it because I couldn't imagine someone paying $50 to make a cupboard out of what, to a non-collector, would appear to be a rather plain-Jane and well worn box of a cabinet. We can only hope anyway.

[SpaceAge]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

I would suspect that a collector got it because I couldn't imagine someone paying $50 to make a cupboard out of what, to a non-collector, would appear to be a rather plain-Jane and well worn box of a cabinet. We can only hope anyway.

You're probably right. Some people want the "distressed look" but this thing is beyond that.