My first Firestone TV!

[earlyfilm]

Originally Posted by Tubejunke

The mask looks identical to that of my RCA 8T-243.

Yes, it does, but the RCA 8T243 uses a 10BP4 while the Firestone look-alike uses a 7JP4!

Tele-Tone sold by mail order and often used small time dealers in places where Television was just starting. In small towns, people had seen the expensive RCA sets pictured in magazines, but had never seen them in person, so most Tele-Tone sets copied the RCA styling to mislead potential buyers who had no idea about actual set size. A picture is a picture without an indication of the actual size.

This look-alikeness and small size is what attracted me to the Tele-Tones in the first place.

James.

[azbigsam]

The Firestone is up and running thanks to a friend of mine who works on vintage electronics. He also cleaned up some of the sloppy work that was done previously. While not perfect, the picture is very watchable.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by azbigsam

I have been looking for a while for a Firestone set and thanks to Justin (StellarTV) I finally have one.

Wow shes very pretty!!!!



Thank you for sharing her with us... You ARE quite lucky buddy!!

[Username1]

That is a nicely styled tv.... Looking at it you would not know what size screen it is...
Got to be less common.... And it's flat on top..... I like that...

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