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[Captain Video]

A question:

If this thing is a custom job ( and it seems it is, as I've done a little investigation so far on this subject ), than there's no schematic of this unit, right ( if everything is interconnected in there ) ? That might make a restoration somewhat more difficult, isn't it?

Otherwise, everything else seems to be only good news about this combo. It came straight from the same house where it sat since it was new, and I've been told ( by the seller ) that they are a very careful family. In fact, since the seller claim that she is a friend of the family, I am thinking about asking for a way to make contact with that family to know more about the history of that set - maybe they might even have some old photo taken in the 50's with the set in their living room.

[Captain Video]

Arrived today, after a long trip, and luckily, everything is fine, it arrived intact. Really looks like a custom job, on the next hours I will remove the back cover to find out what is the brand of the TV - there's no name on the front, I was thinking it might be a Windsor because of the knobs, but now, I am not so sure.

[Captain Video]

The thing is VERY heavy, so, as I was going to move it around, so I could have space to work on the back cover, I decided to enlist the help of my brother. BIG MISTAKE. I thought that he was strong, since he regularly goes to the gym, and takes all those vitamins. "This is the right man to help me" I thought. I lifted it on the left, and he lifted it on the right. HE TREMBLED, HE COULDN'T STAND THE WEIGHT!!!! THE WHOLE THING WENT TO THE FLOOR, RIGHT OVER MY RIGHT FOOT!

I was mortified. There weren't injuries to my foot ( only a little persisting pain, it happened 8 hours ago ), but I instantly feared the worst, I feared that the CRT had broken. I lifted the whole thing in panic, but AMAZINGLY the CRT survived, and even the glass in front the CRT remained intact. Only the plastic mask surrounding the CRT was broken. I was very upset over that broken mask, but at the same time relieved that it wasn't the CRT that broke. It will be a pain in the neck to get another mask ( or, in the worst case scenario, to repair that broken one ).

This thing was, no doubt, a custom job. There's an american TV inside ( I looked inside ), that I couldn't identify the brand, and the radio is a brazilian radio. It's made of a noble and very heavy wood, "imbuia" ( I don't know the name of that wood in English ), so this thing will never get infested by termites. I was so, very lucky that I didn't ended with a crushed foot.

Below you can see pictures taken before and after the tragedy.

[Captain Video]

I sent the broken mask to a guy very skilled in working with plastics. To do it I had to take the chassis out of the cabinet, and I can't find a single clue about the brand of the TV other than it is an American set because of the labels written in English. Any ideas about what TV this might be? The radio is a Windsor, I only discovered this by taking out the back cover of the radio part. That might explain why the TV uses the knobs of a Windsor TV set of that same period.

The CRT was rebuilt on October, 25, 1965. It uses the 21-Z-P4 CRT.