Sylvania bought Philco.

[zeno]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I also heard that NAP wanted Sylvania's CRT manufacturing operation.

That would make sense. Syl already built CRT's for itself & Sears / Sanyo.
Add to that Philco, Maggy & eventually Phillips & thats a lot of jugs.
They were also quite active in the rebuilt market.

On the chassis end last true Philco I remember was a little 9" B&W
football shaped TV, not a bad set. The colors were RCA SCR sweep
clones & real dogs. The first Sylvania/ Philco was the E08 IIRC.
Maggy became the builder of all in the early 80's. Probably the E32 was the last Sylvania. The NAP C-3 was the first I remember in all three. A real
over engineered POS chassis. Before that they had the C-1, the best Maggy ever. It only went in Maggys.

enuf fer now
73 Zeno
LFOD !

[zenith2134]

Originally Posted by zeno

The NAP C-3 was the first I remember in all three. A real
over engineered POS chassis. Before that they had the C-1

I agree 100% that the C1 was the better chassis! That being said, when you come across a good running C3 set, it just runs forever. I can only recall popping in a new filter can once or twice and a fly maybe once.

There was an early 80s Sylvania 19" which was extremely plentiful in the NY area well into the 2000s, it had a decently chromed control panel with manual tuners and a GTmatic style pushbutton for auto tuning. I have seen them well into their second CRT with no chassis work done. Some non Zenith hospitals used them. The tubes were also rather bulletproof, Sylvy sourced naturally.

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by zeno

That would make sense. Syl already built CRT's for itself & Sears / Sanyo.
Add to that Philco, Maggy & eventually Phillips & thats a lot of jugs.
They were also quite active in the rebuilt market.

On the chassis end last true Philco I remember was a little 9" B&W
football shaped TV, not a bad set. The colors were RCA SCR sweep
clones & real dogs. The first Sylvania/ Philco was the E08 IIRC.
Maggy became the builder of all in the early 80's. Probably the E32 was the last Sylvania. The NAP C-3 was the first I remember in all three. A real
over engineered POS chassis. Before that they had the C-1, the best Maggy ever. It only went in Maggys.

enuf fer now
73 Zeno
LFOD !

The set I grew up with was a 19" Magnavox that had either a C1 or C2 chassis (I can't remember; but, I think they were both basically the same). After that, they went downhill and I didn't care for the C3 or C5 chassis. Our Magnavox was ran hard until the mid '90's, when the CRT got too dim to watch.

[zeno]

I think the C-1 was for 19" & the C-2 for 25". and probably
had more features like a comb filter.

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

The set I grew up with was a 19" Magnavox that had either a C1 or C2 chassis (I can't remember; but, I think they were both basically the same). After that, they went downhill and I didn't care for the C3 or C5 chassis. Our Magnavox was ran hard until the mid '90's, when the CRT got too dim to watch.