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11-05-2010, 04:52 PM
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Wow, you even have the back and it's in great condition ! So often they are missing or falling apart. Thanks for the picture. I'll try to fabricate one for my set someday.
You also have the built in antenna. That's the "X" down there in the bottom. 
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11-05-2010, 08:27 PM
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That chassis looks to be in pretty good shape. It appears to be copper-plated which hopefully kept the rust away. There looks like a piece of electric tape on that red wire that you see there on the right. Someone may have "patched" a few rough wires in there at one time. Those silver cans you see on the left side ( one appears to be leaning? ) are multi-section electrolytic capacitors that usually contain 3 or 4 different values. These can be dismantled and rebuilt in such a way that they appear as original with no repositioning of the wires that go to them. You can also leave them in for looks and just mount the new capacitors somewhere under the chassis, but then it's a matter of repositioning the wires to their new locations in a way that still matches the schematic.
Just like Phil said, if you haven't worked on things like this before, a good start would be to recap an old tube radio. I took this advice myself I first took an interest in rebuilding my Zenith, and indeed it was a good starting point. The circuitry in old tube radios is very similar to what you find in televisions of similar vintage, but on a much smaller scale. Not to mention, there's not the high voltages to worry about. That said, I would imagine your Motorola has a fairly sensible layout under there that hopefully won't be too mind-boggling compared to some sets that were made many years after.
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11-05-2010, 09:05 PM
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What a great find. The condition is just a bonus!
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11-20-2010, 03:05 PM
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Thank you to everyone.
I posted a new pic of my TV after I put some effort to clean it up. I used all Howard's Products because you guys said they were good and you were right. It must at least look somewhat close to what it looked like in the old days. Thanks to user bandersen especially because he helped me with the knob and his videos on YouTube are very good, too. I also have an old radio that I will now teach myself to work on before I attempt the big guns.
As a side note, television did not come to my area until 1953. I am a historian and I asked around and it is possibly the oldest TV in original "working" condition in my state. Why would someone throw it away? Thanks again! -Zach
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11-20-2010, 06:49 PM
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Why would someone throw it away ? 'Cause they're unfeeling, ignorant Philistines, that's why. (Grin) Their loss is YOUR gain. Most of us here would about do handsprings over a find like that...Now, if someday you're out tootlin' around, & run acrost a roughly similar lookin' set that has a bit bigger cabinet, a metallic "V" underneath the screen, & the screen's a little too small in relation to the cabinet size...You MAY have found yrself a 1954 RCA CT-100, the 1st color set...Those are kinda the Holy Grail.
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11-20-2010, 08:13 PM
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It looks great
 I'm glad that knob fit.
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11-21-2010, 07:34 AM
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