Who made the TV in my Scott 800B combo?

[Phil Nelson]

I have had this Scott 800B combo for years and can't find out who made the television. It doesn't match any of the TVs labeled as Scott in the Sams Photofacts I've found.

http://www.antiqueradio.org/art/scott800b601.jpg

Scott guru Norman Braithwaite told me that Scott put a variety of TVs into these combos, with different size CRTs, etc. In back of this CRT chassis is a Scott plate with the model number 9T40, which matches nothing I've found in literature.

The arrangement of controls on the side suggested DuMont to me, but I haven't spotted a DuMont with an identical configuration. It has a continuously variable tuner with mechanical detents. The fine tuner shaft is concentric with the channel selector.

The TV has three chassis, which I named CRT, power, and tuner when compiling the tube lineup.

Type: Chassis

16AP4: CRT
6C4: CRT
6AU6: CRT
6K6GT: Power
6AL5: Power
12AU7: Power
6AC7: Power
6BG6: Power
6K6: Power
5V4: Power
1B3GT: Power
1B3GT: Power
6J6: Tuner
6J6: Tuner
6J6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AL5: Tuner
6AT6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AU6: Tuner
6AL5: Tuner
25L6: Tuner
12AT7: Tuner
6AC7: Tuner

The TV works after recapping, but not as well as I'd like. For instance, it has the familiar "sound doesn't match best picture" issue. It would be keen to have a schematic before I start messing around.

Ring any bells? If Scott simply plopped someone else's TV into this cabinet, you'd think that set would show up in literature under another name -- or something.

Thanks!

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[Phil Nelson]

Incidentally, the vertical & horizontal controls are hidden behind a pop-out chrome cover at the top of the front panel. Kind of a slapdash adaptation -- the control knobs are too big for the space and have a different color than others.

Phil

[Tim]

Phil:

Are there any ID numbers on the transformers, including the Flyback?

[Eric H]

It doesn't look even remotely like anything I've seen before, except perhaps the HV section looks a little bit like a 1948 Capehart I had once.

If there are any EIA codes on the chassis maybe this would be of help:
http://www.triodeel.com/eiacode.htm

[Phil Nelson]

Thanks, that gives me something to look for.

Phil

[Tony V]

I dont know what the tv is but the set is beautiful!

[kx250rider]

Scott made their own sets, including the table-top projection model. They were very low production, and in fact, I have never seen a direct-view version like yours! The 800BT, if I'm correct, had the same projection TV as the table model. I bet it's in Rider's... I Have a set of Rider's TV manuals, but they're not where I can lay my hands on them just now.

And as Phil says, Norm Braithwaite is the guru on E.H. Scott, since we lost Roy Burnett a few years back. I'd take anything Norm says as fact.

Charles

Here's a nerdly teenage picture of me in Norm's house in the late 80s, next to his 3-cabinet Scott FM Imperial...

[Phil Nelson]

Norm's impression was that some of the direct-view sets used in the combos were obtained from other manufacturers. I believe he had owned more than one, with CRTs up to perhaps 19." The combo cabinet could accomodate a bigger picture tube than mine if the internals were shifted accordingly.

Cool photo, by the way. At that age, I was doing lame things like gutting a cheap radio/phono that I got from a neighbor and taking the innards to college where I crammed them into two drawers of a dormitory dresser and made a "stereo." Can you spell shock hazard?

Phil

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by kx250rider

Here's a nerdly teenage picture of me in Norm's house in the late 80s,

Oh, I easily out-nerd-ed you by a mile



Maybe it was this guy
who built that Scott TV...