1956 8" Rca 8-pt-7014

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by fsjonsey

Phil,I might be interested in the unrestored one with the bad cabinet, as mine is covered in gloppy paint and the chassis is real rusty. Let me know if you decide to get rid of it.

OK, let me think about it. I have some other stuff on the workbench that I would have to clear off, just to make room to swap the chassis.

Phil

[Adam]

Back together. This one is a plainer model, no built in antenna or swivel stand.

[Adam]

I had been watching this set in bed and falling asleep with it on for about a week, and was surprised at how well it had been holding up, until this morning when I woke up to bad vertical linearity and vertical foldover. I swapped out the bad resistor causing the problem, and am about to put it back together. I also picked up one of these timing devices you plug it into that will automatically shut it off, so I won't put so many hours on it while I'm asleep. I debated whether I should use it so much, but these are pretty common I imagine I wouldn't have trouble finding any parts for it, and it's a great set to watch in bed, I prefer to fall asleep to b/w over color.

[fsjonsey]

If anyone has one of these they'd be willing to sell, let me know. restored, unrestored, doesnt matter, as long as a recap job will bring it back I'll take it.

[compucat]

Originally Posted by Adam

Back together. This one is a plainer model, no built in antenna or swivel stand.

That's the same style as mine only my cabinet is grey. They are great little sets, easy to store and fun to watch. I prefer the more common sets as I can use them as much as I want and not worry about trying to find rare parts.

I do wish these sets had an aluminized tube. They could really benefit from better contrast. Nonetheless, these little RCA portables are some of my favorite vintage TVs. If I could only have two sets, it would be this one and my Zenith color roundie.

[kx250rider]

I have several of them, and I have partially recapped one of them. I got busy with other stuff, so it's still sitting apart. I tried at first to do it without "unstacking" the chassis layers, but I decided it MUST be unstacked. I'll post further on it when I get back to it... I think it's still at my old place with the ex-girlfriend. (that move is 1 year now, and counting ). I have about half of my TV stuff here in Moorpark, and the other half is still up there in Santa Clarita.

Charles

[Adam]

I had more vertical foldover trouble with this set. It was happening intermittently over the last few weeks, twice I pulled the set out of the cabinet only to have it correct itself as soon as I pulled it out and plugged it in it again. But finally tonight it continued to have trouble even after I had it out of the cabinet and up on the bench. First I swapped the 6CM7 vert osc/ output tube, it made no difference, but I eventually located the bad resistor causing the problem and now it's back together.

I still say these are great sets though, I've used this set nearly every night since last summer and this is the first trouble I've had with it since last September. As old sets for a daily watchers, I think these little RCA's are great units. Pic of the set working again...

[stromberg6]

Great picture1 I'm working on my second, the earlier chassis with a 6CG7 as vertical osc/output. So far it has all new 'lytics, and a few paper caps. Also, a couple of 1 meg plus resistors that were way out of spec.
The first one I attempted was the later version. Got the whole thing re-capped, and then found that the vert output transformer has an open primary. Haven't investigated if the connection is broken under the outer paper yet.
I expect the later one to have a brighter picture, as the 2nd anode voltage is about 2 kilovolts higher than the early one. According to an RCA tube manual, the 8DP4 was not aluminized.
Good performance from a TV with an approx. 2 megahertz video bandwidth!
Best wishes,
Kevin

[compucat]

I just started using mine again. Today I hooked up to an Insignia digital converter and it works great. I have not had to service this set since I restored it about eight years ago and now it is future proof. You just gotta love the vintage stuff.