The WORST ever

[TVtommy]

Oh yeah, I nearly forgot that a friend of mine ( he's still a friend in spite of this) knowing my reluctance to throw away anything tv related, gave me a '67 vintage Motorola 21" rect. tube floor model. Since then I've only seen one other rect. 21" floor model and that was an RCA XL-100 and that was a pretty decent set. This set had a Channel Master CRT in it in good shape and the cabinet was mint. Thats all I have good to say about it as far as my initial assesment goes. Aside from half the tubes in it testing marginal, the horizontal output tube was cracked and the flyback melted (then I got to looking at the Sams for it and noticed their novel 1! tube based color demod circuit and how it resembled the one that was used in the Magnacrap tube chassis - the one with the push pull focus control - and neeeever looked good to me). Anyway, I thought about risking censure by the collecting community and going ahead and making a bookcase or a bonfire out of it. Then it dawned on me, the entire front mask assembly was identical to a TS-919 gen 1 Quasar table top set I had "restored" and was very fond of except for it's scratched up contact paper on steel cabinet. They even both had the tint control (like the maggie chromatune control) and the convergence paanels were in the same place behind the speaker! Needless to say, I have the only floor model 21" Quasar I've ever laid eyeballs on and it is a sweet little set (the ho-made back cover looks a little cheesy but it keeps the cat alive). If anybody has a better use for one of these abomin-ola's, let me know.

[andy]

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