Philco 22d5102

[Electronic M]

This afternoon I made the trip to northeast Iowa to purchase this set. It is now my honor to be the custodian of this fine piece of history. Checking the original Philco branded CRT with my tester showed no heater illumination...A DMM confirmed the heater has no continuity at the base. I suspect it has lost vacuum and the heater burned open in oxygen when powered to test or operate the set at some prior date. Tomorrow I'm going to have a look at the getters and see if they have turned white if not there is the slim chance the solder on the base pins failed and the CRT might be good after a resolder...Enough good things have happened today though, that I probably have used up that luck. In any case, I have good spare 21AXPs I can populate it with even if that means a CTC-5 must do without.

IMG_20190622_222438301 by Tom Carlson, on Flickr


After purchasing it I made a stop at an Antique/junk shop and ended up making a bulk radio purchase (there was cool stuff at bargain prices)...I even found a Zenith cheater cord I've been looking for. Perhaps the icing on the cake on the way back while crossing back into Wisconsin I was followed by and given a good chance to drool over a 1941 Oldsmobile 2dr fastback...I've only ever seen pictures before so it was a real treat to see a car I've been wanting to own for years right next to me.

IMG_20190622_220835501 by Tom Carlson, on Flickr

I'm about at the limit on space so I'm probably going to stop purchasing TVs for a while. It will probably be a fairly long time before I make a purchase that tops this.