The end of the world is near...

[Dave A]

And it is inside a RCA 17" or so hacked by the audio fiends. My head is spinning from the description. What...no cryogenically frozen and tempered Edison outlets for better frequency response at 8762.588Hz? How can this thing operate? And nary a Monster cable in sight. Fishtankers are starting to look good compared to this delusional conversion. Now I know what to do with my RA-109! And it is restored and working.

Viewing is NSFC (not safe for collectors). Your eyes will scar and you will never see lollipop color again. You will just hear it and you will wander the earth repeating his description on street corners.

Pix uploads are not working here tonight. View at your own risk.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1954-RCA-Vic...item3cfd641143

[hi_volt]

Ouch......now I'll be forced to gouge my own eyes out.....

$2500??? Hahahahah

[Jon A.]

Ooh, burn. Audiophool snobbery mixed with hipster tacky, that must be a highly unstable combination.

I can't say I'm surprised by the asking price.

[Olorin67]

hate to see a nice set ruined like that. Back in college I thought about making a guitar amp out of a ugly 60s Zenith 19" b&W.. Use the chassis, transformer & audio output trans, and put a speaker where the CRT was, but never got that far. I parted out a couple 15 years ago when I was moving and didnt have room, I had like 5 of them ...those sets used to be plentiful $5-10 garage slae items back in the 80s, Wouldn't do that now, unless the set wasnt savable. I did keep the 3 best ones. I did save the power transformers for future tube amp or radio restorations. I must have had at least 10 Zenith B&W sets from 1960-1970 or so at one time. Every single one of them worked OK. when i got it from a garage sale, although a couple had crts that wernt so bright anymore.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Olorin67

hate to see a nice set ruined like that. Back in college I thought about making a guitar amp out of a ugly 60s Zenith 19" b&W.. Use the chassis, transformer & audio output trans, and put a speaker where the CRT was, but never got that far. I parted out a couple 15 years ago when I was moving and didnt have room, I had like 5 of them ...those sets used to be plentiful $5-10 garage slae items back in the 80s, Wouldn't do that now, unless the set wasnt savable. I did keep the 3 best ones. I did save the power transformers for future tube amp or radio restorations. I must have had at least 10 Zenith B&W sets from 1960-1970 or so at one time. Every single one of them worked OK. when i got it from a garage sale, although a couple had crts that wernt so bright anymore.

You wouldn't happen to have saved the vert. out transformers from those (I could use one)?

[Username1]

EM made that !

Com'on admit it that's your contraption ! !

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[pac.attack76]

Ridiculous and just plain sickening. Good luck getting $2500. What a joke.

[Electronic M]

No, my 17" metal RCA is the older 4 knob/NO pencil box version.....Might get that treatment if whatever put it back on the DL is expensive though.

Not exactly a nice thing to do, but at least the set they did it to is far from being a rare set.

[jr_tech]

The newer (pencil box ) version quite likely had the metal cone 17CP4 crt, which was likely gassy anyway and hard to find. Not an uncommon set anyway, IMHO not a great loss.

jr

[ChrisW6ATV]

To paraphrase a comment on another discussion:

Maybe if a couple of us TV collectors found an early Gibson-Les Paul guitar and drilled holes all over it for sorting out our capacitors (stand their leads in the holes), or strung up a bunch of Telefunken 12AX7s as Christmas-tree lights (run them at 8 or 9 volts, nice and bright!), when the audiophools came crying, we could explain how this type of junk is to us.

[ChuckA]

It's not even a good guitar amplifier, it's missing the necessary leaky .022uf black beauty capacitors that all great guitar amps need to get that "sound"

Chuck

[Arcanine]

Someone needs to slap this idiot and tell him he wasted a perfectly good antique television, on a stupid, poorly made guitar amp. It looks like a child made this.

This piece of trash made by the hands of a baboon could be YOURS for the new LOW LOW COST OF $2,500!

[kramden66]

I wonder if one can convert a fish tank into a guitar amp or convert a guitar amp into a fish tank?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

The newer (pencil box ) version quite likely had the metal cone 17CP4 crt, which was likely gassy anyway and hard to find. Not an uncommon set anyway, IMHO not a great loss.

jr

That model used both, the all glass and the metal cone CRT's
The 17QP4, glass and the 17CP4 metal cone CRT.
I have the four knob version that uses the 17QP4. Mine has the voltage doubler, using selenium rectifiers. The newer version uses a 5U4 and a 5Y3, which I like a little better.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

That model used both, the all glass and the metal cone CRT's
The 17QP4, glass and the 17CP4 metal cone CRT.
I have the four knob version that uses the 17QP4. Mine has the voltage doubler, using selenium rectifiers. The newer version uses a 5U4 and a 5Y3, which I like a little better.

IIRC my 4 knober uses the all glass CRT AND has the 5U4-5Y3 dual rectifier set up....