Heathkit Roundie

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Made the trip to Pierce, Arizona to pick up the Heathkit and the Fada 930, and also got a couple of bonus items. The Heathkit is a 1965 model that was built by the owner's father, who was a TV service technician. The CRT in the Heathkit is a Sylvania Color Bright 85, which is a Grade A rebuilt. Emissions on all three guns check OK, but even though I got good emissions on the blue gun, I couldn't get the gun balance to adjust properly. I'm going to run the filaments for a couple of hours to wake the tube up tomorrow evening when I get home from work. I even got the original Heathkit manual for the set, plus a few spare parts like a yoke and a few other goodies. The set, of course, didn't come with a cabinet, but I did get the cabinet that the original owner "repurposed" back in 1965 to house the set. Cool.

The Fada 930 is complete and has a rebuilt aluminized CRT with a date code of 1979, so I'm guessing the set was still in use until at least the early '80s. The 12BP4 checks just barely in the "good" zone, so I'm going to try to wake that tube up as well.

The owner had a spare 21-inch rectangular CRT that I got as well. Emissions check barely OK as well, so that one also might wake up. I don't have a set for this one, but if I didn't take it, it would have gone to the dump

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A few more pictures:

[wkand]

Wow!! Sweet finds!!

Is the wood cabinet with the doors the re-purposed cabinet for the Heath?

Someone( probably the father who was a service tech) appreciated the significance of the Fada set, given they re-tubed it in 1979! That would not have been a common thing to do.

I had a GE 16 inch BW set from ther late 50's that I re-tubed about that time for $25

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Not 100% sure about the cabinet, but it looks like it might fit the Heathkit, though the chassis would stick out the back a couple of inches. The cabinet was free so I wasn't going to leave it there to get sent to the dump. If it doesn't end up working for the Heathkit, I'll use it for something else.