Scott 6T11 projection TV

[bandersen]

Wow! I'd love to grab this Scott 600B to go with the 6T11 Only $150 plus you get a bonus Colonial console.
http://allentown.craigslist.org/ele/4222583556.html

Check out this ARF thread to see them paired up.
http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=160542

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by bandersen

Wow! I'd love to grab this Scott 600B to go with the 6T11 Only $150 plus you get a bonus Colonial console.
http://allentown.craigslist.org/ele/4222583556.html

Check out this ARF thread to see them paired up.
http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=160542

I have a Scott 800b, just like that one. The cabinet weighs over 100 pounds, without the chassis. It's the Chippendale Grande cabinet, in Mahogany.
The two chassis and 15" speaker weigh about 80 pounds.

[Phil Nelson]

If you have the room, go for it. The 800B is one of the best postwar consumer receivers, in my book. There are many discussions of it in ARF, including a circuit to improve the "shy" bass response.

$150 is a good value. It's the elephantine size & weight that depresses the price of these guys.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[bandersen]

Amazingly, what appeared to be a NOS (or nearly so) Protelgram kit (minus the CRT mounting hardware and yoke) appeared on ebay a couple weeks ago.
I ended up paying a bit for it, but I figured it could be a very long time before something similar showed up.
I especially wanted the optical assembly since my corrective lens is cloudy and front surface mirrors stained.


There is some surface corrosion and chipped paint but otherwise looks unused or barely used.

[bigaudioal]

Nice score!!! Cannot wait to see this set come back to life!

[bandersen]

All I need now is lots of time First though I've committed to restoring an Admiral for a local collector and I'd like to finish off some of my outstanding projects.

[peter scott]

There aren't that many TV parts in common between the US and the UK but it looks as if the projection system is one of them.
Here is the Mullard stuff used in Philips and Decca sets over here. CRT is MW6-2.



My parents' first set in 1952 was a Philips 1400 using rear projection with this system. The picture wasn't that great, principally because it didn't have proper d.c. restoration so you got black bands on each side of white objects.

Philips 1400A photos taken off the screen of my parents' set showing an eclipse of the sun. Not just bad d.c. but poor flyback blanking.


In recent times I've seen very much better results from this system used in a Decca 1000 that projects a 3' x 4' picture on a separate screen. This had amazing resolution (given the picture size) and proper d.c.restoration. See attached test card.
Also: http://www.myvintagetv.com/decca_1000.htm


Peter

[zenith2134]

Hi, I have a 3HP7 crt lying around, is it of any use to you? The pic of your Protelgram reminded me of it. I have a lot of oddball CRTs from o-scopes and things like that.

[bandersen]

Thanks for the offer, but I already have one. I think I got it from Fair Radio Sales years ago just as a curiosity.

[bandersen]

I was poking around my storage unit last night and noticed this sticker on the backside of the mirror in the lid.

[KentTeffeteller]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Yeah they are the rarest of the quad record decoders that were originally marketed in the US. I got mine for under 15$ at an anti-q shoppe a few years back (probably the latter Bush years), and it was only this year that I saw another for sale in person. It was the first consumer quad record format available and did not get much support beyond Radio Shack. I've only been able to find about 4 records for my unit in all this time, and most of them were Realistic brand. I would imagine that on rarity alone the decoders must be worth a pretty penny considering what stuff of the more common formats goes for.

I never knew that those cases were available as project boxes...interesting.

That could be a Zenith back there...With how obscured it is in that pic I completely missed it.

Project Records and Ovation seemed to have been the main suppliers of EV/4 encoded Quad LP discs by the way, a format which was a lot less common, as SQ, QS, and CD-4 took over, (Sansui's QS for me was the best practical Quad LP format, Matrix at it's best, backwards compatible with Stereo and Mono, the only practical broadcast format).

[Tim Tress]

With "Meck" stamped on the tuner, that probably answers the question of who made the set for Scott. Meck did eventually acquire the company.