19" RCA from my youth

[DavGoodlin]

AH yes, new logo 1969 when RCA dropped the Victor and the "quality went out"and how many times I saw VHF channels being changed with slip-joint pliers due to that STUPID plastic tuner shaft. So much for the safety line-side isolation.

My family would spend New years eve every year with a family that had the same set in Eric's Picture, an RCA KCS171 IIRC. This family also had an early 50s motorola 17" sitting idle on a shelf in the basement. The RCA 19" was the second set for this family of 6 with one car (67 Falcon SW).
I would be allowed to go down and tinker with that motorola and it always got a raster but never got any signal.

Later, based on my record of no smoke or fire in the basement, I was "allowed" to work on the RCA upstairs as it was becoming touchy. The first issue was the vertical hold, conveniently located around on the back on the left side looking from the front. I cleaned the control and that seemed fix that issue. A second visit and I ended up simply adjusting height/linearity. Still another new years eve, they brought the set to our house saying the reception was snowy. It seems that with all the adjusting of the UHF loop, the antenna terminal screws wiggled enough in the plastic "board" to break off the UHF tuner antenna leads on the inside. I was later told that they never had repairs done on that TV by a "real tv guy". L O freakin L

This all being said, I would stop and pick one up fir my collection if I saw one. All sets have a place in history.