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Snade · #16 01-19-2008, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by drh4683

In the photos, you see the original home the TV's were found in followed by a picture of the TV found in that home.

Wow, this is an amazing post. It's great to see the house and the TVs.

Congrats, those are some beautiful sets.

Snade

drh4683 · #17 01-19-2008, 09:14 PM

Ive got an '04 Chevy silverado 1500, extended cab w/ standard 6ft bed. Actually, that truck you see in front of the white house that I found the admiral TV in is my truck. Everything gets proper padding and is secured for transport. I have a bunch of those moving blankets and ratchet straps. Smallers sets I can fit into the back seat like the XL-100 and the panasonic.

radiotvnut · #18 01-19-2008, 09:48 PM

Looks like you done good at the sales this weekend! Lesson to us all is that one never knows what he will find unless he goes to the sale. What year is that XL100? It reminds me of a Zenith 4 tube hybrid that I had back around '95. It was a 19" in a decorative plastic "fake wood" cabinet and had a matching pedestal that it sat on. That set had an arcing tripler and I gave it to a friend who fixed it and sold it for about $75. Had I had half a brain, I would have kept that set.

*zenithfan1* · #19 01-20-2008, 12:01 AM

Awesome finds Doug,

That Zenith has a great cabinet, it sure is hard to find the french provincial.

drh4683 · #20 01-20-2008, 11:57 AM

The RCA XL-100 is a CTC-71, model FS484-L "model year 1974". I always liked how rca put the model year on the model tag on some of the 70's sets.

*zenithfan1* · #21 01-21-2008, 12:49 PM

That RCA is really cool.

Is it attached or separate from that base? I wish they put the year on all of 'em! But some is better than none.

freakaftr8 · #22 01-22-2008, 03:48 PM

Crazy nice finds there Doug! Ususally my back seats are always folded down in the back of my Chevy Tahoe, It's great for hauling sets around, especially those entertainment consoles!

radiotvnut · #23 01-22-2008, 04:01 PM

Some Dones back pills are always nice to have around when moving those big, heavy sets!

drh4683 · #24 02-10-2008, 07:46 PM

This is a rather unusual find. Found it yesterday at 404 Orion St, here in Batavia. Its probably the cheapest tube type TV ever made. Its a 16" 1973 General Electric model SF3206WD. Its a 4 tube chassis. Very small board. Probably the lightest TV in existance of its size. Only 2 IF stages and both amplified by one compactron tube. Still has a tube type sarkies tarzan VHF tuner. Even has instant on. and the CRT is even good! Must have never been plugged in. Set works pretty good too. Being such a cheap economy set, the picture is bright and clear but pretty soft. Looks like I was the first to take the back off. Its these cheap sets that never survive. I dont think Ive ever run across a GE portable b/w of this type before. Anyone know what a set like this would have sold for new? Still a USA made set with usa parts.

*zenithfan1* · #25 02-10-2008, 08:26 PM

Thats pretty neat, Doug. you don't see many of those. Always thought GE made cool looking sets. I think they sold this model for about $100.00

radiotvnut · #26 02-10-2008, 09:39 PM

I don't think I've ever seen a 16" SF set; but, I've seen plenty of 12" versions. Most were the late '60's style with the knobs below the screen. I did see one from the mid '70's in a simulated wood plastic case and click stop UHF tuner. The case was the same type used on the later XB chassis solid state sets. I believe there was a '76 model red, white, and blue SF chassis set. I'm sure '76 was the last year for this chassis.

peverett · #27 02-10-2008, 09:51 PM

I have one of the 12 inch versions that appears to have a chassis similar to this one. The sound portion in mine is solid state with an integrated circuit and output transistor.

I also have another GE with a 16 inch or so screen. I have not had the back off recently, so do not remember the chassis layout. What I do remember is that the CRT has the smallest cathode of any I have seen. Of course, it is very weak.

bgadow · #28 02-10-2008, 10:05 PM

Madman Muntz had nothing on the General...

Chad Hauris · #29 02-10-2008, 10:13 PM

I have a GE set which uses a 5-tube chassis...can't remember what the tube numbers are, but the functions are:
1. Horiz output & damper
2. Vertical output, oscillator, and feedback diode
3. Video output and AGC keying
4. 1st and 2nd IF
5. Sound detector and output
This set does not have a seperate horizontal oscillator tube or transistor that I can see...somehow it uses feedback off the flyback to make the oscillator work.

I think in the set in question here it uses a transistor for the horiz osc and it probably has the IC sound discriminator and transistor audio output.

Whirled One · #30 02-11-2008, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by drh4683

This is a rather unusual find. Found it yesterday at 404 Orion St, here in Batavia. Its probably the cheapest tube type TV ever made. Its a 16" 1973 General Electric model SF3206WD.

Yep, that's an SF chassis alright; looks remarkably like the one in the far-more-common 12" SF sets. That chassis looks *tiny* compared with that 16" CRT though!
I guess I've never seen a 16" version of that.

The SF sets seem to be pretty bulletproof, but as you'd probably expect, they were el-cheapo "value leader" TV's and not great performers.

Still kinda neat though!