A bountiful day!!

[Eric H]

This is probably the nicest set of the bunch, it's a beautiful little 10" Hoffman complete with a stand that may or may not be factory but is very nice in any case!

The CRT came up ok after a little cooking, it may not be good as new but it should work fine.

Since it looked like it had been stored well I decided to go ahead and plug this set in, it didn't explode or anything, in fact it had strong static in the speaker and sounded like it would probably tune a station if I had an antenna, there was no hum, there was no light on the screen though so I will have to check and see if the HV is working.

[Eric H]

Lastly this brand new Raytheon CRT arrived at my work today!
Shown here next to the set it's going in.

I bought this from a guy who has a bunch of CRT's listed on the Early Television Site. http://www.earlytelevision.org/info_wanted.html
the listing is a little more than half way down, just use "Find" and enter "Cathode Ray"

I was reluctant to buy something from someone I didn't know but it turned out fine so maybe if you need a tube on his list you can work a deal.

[Steve K]

Eric:

That first set you pictured looks like it uses the same chassis that I used in my color wheel project. It may be a Coronado made by Gamble-Skogmo (or at least sold by them). Mine has a variable tuner and the small knobs in the front are left to right, brightness, vertical and horizontal. Check Sams 145-5 to see if it is the same chassis.

Steve

[polaraman]

Only 5 sets? There were more to be had and you did not buy them?


polaraman

[vintagecollect]

These all look like great sets, beautiful hoffman!! Keep us posted on restores!!!!

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by polaraman

Only 5 sets? There were more to be had and you did not buy them?


polaraman

Well... actually... yes!
I passed on a GE Locomotive in nice shape and a Bakelite Teletone with a small crack. There was also a Motorola VK-101 that I would love to have but the cabinet was in bad shape, the feet were also missing and they would be hard to repro.

The Hoffman has a date penciled on the bottom of 5/80! Someone was having this set repaired as late as that.
That probably is why it's in such good shape.

I got it working somewhat by cleaning the HV cage, it was arcing under the 1B3, also HV doesn't make it to the anode unless I bypass the resistor and doorknob, did this by jamming a screwdriver in under the 1B3 .

A little shrunk but not bad considering.

[mbates14]

well, nice score eric!!

looks like you gonna have to start replacing the caps.

[Eric H]

I just noticed the channel selector on the Hoffman has the call letters from KNBH (now KNBC) on it. (this set was built Jun 15 1949)

It also has KLAC and KFI on it in the channel 13 & 9 slots.
These are (still) radio stations so I don't know why they're on a TV dial unless you could tune them on the TV?

Re KNBH: I found this on http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/KNBC

"This station went on the air on January 16, 1949, as KNBH-TV. In the mid-1950s, KNBH changed its call letters to KRCA-TV. The station was originally located out of the NBC Radio City studios on Sunset Blvd. and Vine Street in Hollywood. KRCA changed its call letters to the present KNBC-TV in 1960."