My new A-hole wanted ad

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I wonder if that's a Curtis-Mathes? As big and fugly as it is, I wouldn't be surprised.

Who wants to place bets on that one?

Just kidding.

[truetone36]

It's a Capehart. I junked one just like it a few months ago.

[Jon A.]

Curtis-Mathes and Capehart of that vintage, same dif.

Originally Posted by Sandy G

After you scavenged whatever parts you could offa it, you could build yrself a DANDY Bon-type Fire w/the fuggin' thing.. Don't know if I'd wanna roast Weinies over it-Who knows what kind of "Particles" are in that particle board, not to mention what glues they used...The early Seventies ? Yeah, that was B4 the environmental laws kicked in, for the most part, who knows WHAT horrible concoctions were/are in it..

One could probably get high off the fumes coming off that thing.

[radiotvnut]

From what I've seen of Capehart, they had Electrophonic, Soundesign, and Morse beat in terms of junk. What a shame because Capehart used to be a high end brand.

[Jeffhs]

BSR record changers aren't all bad. I had a Zenith integrated stereo system which used such a changer; it lasted as long as I owned the unit, and was still working when I left it at my former home when I moved 13 years ago. Don't know what became of that system, but my best guess is it still works, BSR changer and all. Goodness knows it gave me 17 years of good service, but then again I never used the changer for much other than dubbing records onto cassettes.

[CoogarXR]

I scrapped a console like that a while ago. For some reason the particle board would hardly burn. I had to get a roaring fire going with real wood and feed small pieces of that console in to get it to burn. Pain in the arse.

[truetone36]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

From what I've seen of Capehart, they had Electrophonic, Soundesign, and Morse beat in terms of junk. What a shame because Capehart used to be a high end brand.

I have a blonde Capehart Console from "54 and it's a very nice one. Very well-made. It was in the mid to late 50's that their quality began the long downhill slide.

[radiotvnut]

Had a guy offer me a '72 Truetone particleboard monster that I think was made by Interstate Industries. He said that it had been in the barn for 5+ years and from the pictures, it looks like it. I offered $10 (mainly for the BSR changer) and he said to come get it.

[orthophonic]

Loved your ad.

But the presence of an 8 track does not always mean junk. Granted, they became almost standard in most cheap consoles by 1972, but Zenith offered one as
extra cost
in their top of the line 960 series starting 1967 (Best console ever in my opinion)
as did Seeburg in their very expensive HSC1 Audiomation console.

RCA offered matching top of set players starting in 1966, but I don't think
they offered a built in until 1969.