Not a scroem but a F-n SCORE 2 TVs, radio

[ticntoc]

In a different life, I used to sell antiques and collectables at swap meets. I had boxes of leftovers in the garage at the house I was renting. When I was moving to my new (old) house in Palm Springs, I decided that I really did not want to take all of that stuff with me. I asked a friend at work, who also does estate sales, to put it all on consignment in her store.

At one of her estate sales, a few months later, the RCA 648 PTK showed up. I traded her all of the stuff in my boxes for the RCA, plus delivery the 100 miles to Palm Springs. Somewhere she has the original receipt for the thing from 1948. Somewhere about the cost of a new Caddy of the day. It took them a year to pay it off.

I usually get into her sales a day early, before the dealers. About 2 months ago I went to one. While banging around in the garage I uncovered the Packard Bell 1273. It has AM in 2 bands (East coast stations and West coast stations) and FM. The frosting is the 78 record player with a play back and a recording tone arm. Somewhere else was buried the Dumont Teleset RA110. FM with analog TV tuning. The cost..? Almost nothing. I rebuilt a late 30s 5 tube radio for her partner.

When they delivered the stuff, they brought along some test equipment that had been setting around that they I thought I might like.

B&K 1074 Television Analyst,
B&K 467 CRT Restored
B&K 801 Cap Analyst
B&K 1077 Tele Analyst
RCA mini Chro-Bar Generator
RCA High voltage probe (for CRTs)
Sencore Transistor/FET in circuit tester

I may keep the cap and transistor testers, the rest will get cleaned up, checked out and sent on its way.

Any input on the 2 TVs or the radio/phono would be greatly appreciated. See the radio in the radio section.

[Eric H]

Nice Dumont! you'll probably be hearing from a guy named Lee.

The downside is it has a brightener on the picture tube so it's probably shot, also it looks like a 19AP4 which is very hard to find.

[Tony V]

I picked up a Dumont identical to that one a couple months ago off of Ebay cheap. It was local so dont have alot invested in this one. Mine had a brightner on it too and you guessed it the crt is shot. I tested it with a test tube and it works fine. I located a crt for mine, its just the matter of going and picking it up in a few weeks. The only difference i see if yours has mahogany knobs where mine has blonde knobs that match the cabinet.
-Tony

[Boobtubeman]

Lemme know about the HV probe

Steve