Silvertone Roundie on eBay

[Eric H]

Needs re-veneered

http://cgi.ebay.com/Round-tube-color...QQcmdZViewItem

WOW! A Sears color porthole!

[Telecolor 3007]

That rounide is very funny

[Bill Cahill]

It wasn't a porthole. It had a double D mask. It's a 64, or 65 model. It's in a home made frame. Original cabinet is gone. If you look you can clearly see picture is stretched in all directions.. Too bad.

[Chad Hauris]

That looks like something I would do! a real recycling job. Picture seems quite good.

[polaraman]

I have an empty Silvertone roundie cabinet. The rest of it is too far away for me to bid.


polaraman

[blue_lateral]

DId you take apart the Frankenset? Or is this another one?

John

[bgadow]

Somebody out there has a cabinet begging for this. I would think it could be fitted to any RCA clone from the mid-60s. Before I saw the pics I was gonna say a good one to part out but the darn thing works!

[blue_lateral]

It probably could. It has the single-drum channel indicator, and volume only between the channel knobs. Possibly might fit directly in a ctc12 cabinet? It's looks nearly identical to my ctc15 based Silvertone.

John

[jroberts500]

I used to wonder what a roundie would look like stretched from ttop to bottom. Now I know!
Somebody must have a nice cabinet to put that in.
Very unusual to find perfect guts instead of perfect cabinet.
Very funny to see.
I wonder if he has the safety glass. I think it is missing.

[kx250rider]

I eMailed the seller, and it's a few blocks from me so I might try to go see it. I don't know what I'd ever do with it, but it's neat and must be saved. I can't tell from the pictures if it's a CTC-12 or a Warwick. I think CTC-12, though.

Funny story about that: I won $20 from an old Sears tech who swore that there were NEVER any RCA-built Silvertones... This was probably 1982-ish. Luckily I got a housecall from a lady with a Sears CTC-12 a week or so after the argument and the bet placed... Easy $20!

Charles

[blue_lateral]

I have often wondered who built mine. I suspect Warwick. It is ctc15 based, but has ctc12 like controls, and different tuners than a ctc15. The chassis is extremely RCA-like and it uses RCA circuit boards. The only differences I have noticed so far between this and a real ctc15- (1)the chassis is anodized a gold color instead of the usual silver, (2) It has a polarized interlock (3) About 3 resistor values, but I think one of these was just incorrectly stuffed. (4) There is no high line voltage tap on the power transformer. (5) no 1k resistor in the HO cathode circuit. (5) The tuners.

Does this sound like Warwick to you? There was also a thread a while back about a set that used ctc15 like circuitry but had different boards and cage.

John

[RetroHacker]

Wow - that's really cool. I like that If I were closer, I'd buy it. I actaully have a roundie cabinet for a GE set, I found it (just the cabinet, grumble) on the side of the road. I also recently found a round tube (no clue if it's any good). I've thought about building a frankenset for a while, seeming as though it looks like it'll be the only way I'll manage to get ahold of a roundie. But all that aside, I really like the idea of a salvaged set like this, that's pretty cool, and his idea with the smoked plexiglass would be neat too. See, what I'd do is get bypass the original tuner (or mount it back inside the cabinet), and hook up an 80's cable box with the red seven segment displays, and mount a nice keypad and the red displays in the front. Put wood on the sides, and the smoked plexi over the tube area. Most of those cable boxes would allow you to turn on the set with the remote's power button, through a relay - you'd have a remote control roundie! Put in an internal RF modulator (or bypass the tuner entirely, and direct couple baseband video) and hook up a DVD player and have the home entertainment system from the past's view of the future.

-Ian

[polaraman]

Bluelateral,

Frankenset is almost alive. The restoration is on hold untill I move next month.

I acquired another Silvertone cabinet. It is a real cheap cabinet though.

I also have a CTC 16 metal empty cabinet.

polaraman

[frenchy]

Guess that pic answers my question about whether a color porthole would have been possible with these pic tubes, the picture looks to be filled in from top to bottom, looks cool.