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Rob · #**346** 10-22-2003, 06:45 PM

polaraman,

That control apron on the Crosley looks kinda cool. What happened to the CRT mask? Was there a component fire inside?

polaraman · #**347** 10-22-2003, 06:55 PM

I believe the mask just got baked. No evidence of a fire in the set. I keep on looking for another one to replace it. I also posted a picture of my Stromburg-Carlson with the doors open. It is in Horizontal hold members gallery. It is under polaraman.

wa2ise · #**348** 10-26-2003, 11:36 PM

I got this RCA TV a few months ago, someone was tossing it at the curb. It worked (after dealing with a bad power switch) but I did a recap as a matter of course. I watched the Yankees lose the world series on it.

But that's not the Yankees you see on the TV in the picture below! Also a picture of the chassis. No, I didn't try to dismount the circuit boards when I did the recap, I just clipped leads on the component side and j-hooked in new caps.

More old TV sets at my web site:
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/radios/tv.html

Rob · #**349** 10-26-2003, 11:48 PM

wa2ise

Welcome aboard! Nice pic of this classic 50's RCA. I checked your website. I like your blue bananas!

Jeffhs · #**350** 10-27-2003, 01:52 AM

wa2ise,

Your set looks very familiar. My great-aunt and uncle had a TV exactly like yours in the early '50s; they used it until the '70s, when they got a color set. Their RCA worked well on Cleveland's three VHF stations (at that time), and the set itself didn't give them much trouble at all (that I was ever aware of, anyway).

Those early RCAs were built to last, which is more than I can say for the company's new color sets. My folks' first TV was a 21-inch RCA in a huge console cabinet; this set also worked very well on our area's three VHF channels on rabbit ears (we lived about 30 miles or so from the stations, so really good reception on all three with rabbit ears in the '50s was not easy to attain--eventually, when we got a new set, we put up an antenna in the attic which worked much better).

RCA once was "the most respected name in electronics", but look what's happened since then. Since the company was taken over by Thomson in the late eighties or early nineties, a lot of their TVs have been nothing but trouble for their owners. I have an RCA 19-inch color set which I bought new almost four years ago; I've already had it repaired twice for the same problem (the RF port on the back of the set snapped off the tuner PC board both times) and I know there is one defective IC (the EEPROM signal processor) in the signal circuits. (Also, I have a friend whose parents' RCA color set blew a picture tube after only two years!)

Since I live in an apartment building wired for cable (the village in which I live is 40+ miles from the seven TV transmitters serving Cleveland and is a definite fringe area), however, and my set is connected to the cable system, I have never used the set on an antenna except to test it. (The reception on all three VHF stations using rabbit ears was terrible; the only good signals were from Cleveland's three commercial UHF stations, one of which [channel 19] is now the CBS affiliate for our area, having swapped networks with channel 8 which was bought out by Fox Broadcasting in the mid-1990s. Channel 8 was Cleveland's CBS station for over four decades; 19 was a Fox affiliate from 1986 until it acquired the CBS affiliation from 8 around 1993 or so. Channel 8, now owned by Fox, naturally got the affiliation to that network).

The cable signal (from Comcast digital cable) is so good it doesn't matter that the signal processor in my set is bad and (probably) getting worse. The picture is still very good on all analog and digital channels on the system. The cable box bypasses the tuner anyhow, so even if the tuner were shot (or getting there) I'd still get a decent picture as long as the tuner worked on channel 4 (the output of the cable box), which it does.

BTW, I heard about the outcome of the World Series, although I did not see any of the games (found out from a friend of mine who is an absolute sports nut). Oh well, maybe the Yankees will win it next year.

73,

Big Dave · #**351** 10-27-2003, 09:16 PM

Here's my Andrea mentioned in another thread, with a better pic (I hope)

Big Dave · #**352** 10-27-2003, 09:18 PM

On top of the Andrea, is an RCA (like one of Eric H's) and a Philco. Can anyone ID the Philco? The model number is worn off.

bgadow · #**353** 10-27-2003, 09:32 PM

I have a very similiar Andrea, but it poor condition, missing the doors. A guy I deal with in my business-a guy who is responsible for SENDING me business, had been telling me for years about these sets he wanted me to look at. I felt obliged to buy them, had to pay too much. Besides the tired Andrea there was a late 40's Magnavox console radio painted with whitewash and about 6 or 7 broken down reel-to-reel recorders. If nothing else I think someday I can make something of the TV.

polaraman · #**354** 10-29-2003, 03:52 PM

Picked up this 21T165 at Salvation Army thrift store this past Saturday. Set is completely dead but has a good 21AP4. Fuses are blown in the HV section. I already have a 21T165 and this will make two!!!! I will have to get to this one after recapping my Stromburg-Carlson Chinese Classic.

Polaraman

Charles Vesser · #**355** 11-12-2003, 12:48 AM

Don't know what I'm going to do with this one. I may STORE it or RESTORE it, I think STOREING it will be the easiest. Notice the cool blue tinted picture tube.
UPDATE: This set is now working properly. Had to get some help from fellow member dewickt on this one. He replaced the filter cap and gave me some good pointer's (plus the Sams folder). I replaced some 20 odd caps and now its time to set back and watch a little TELIVISION.

wa2ise · #**356** 11-13-2003, 12:26 AM

This is a cool looking vintage TV. Short depth for a "console". It looks like a portable that the manufacturer mounted into a wood cabinet, and added a big speaker below.

It's on evil bay (and it's not mine)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...gename=rvi:1:2

Rob · #**357** 11-13-2003, 01:00 AM

Cool! The legs are much like the Philco Predict Danish Modern. That loudspeaker driver in the bottom looks like something from Orson Wells' "The War Of The Worlds", or from Germany.

***Eric H*** · #**358** 11-13-2003, 02:26 AM

I want that! Too bad it's so far away.

That is the same GE I have been looking for but in a different cabinet. http://www.vintagetvsets.com/wanted.htm

A set just like that was used as a prop in the Movie "All That Heaven Allows"

wiseguy · #**359** 11-13-2003, 06:40 AM

eric. milwaukee is about an 1 hr 25 mins away from here.. that set should be shippable,looks solid..
but the odd size of that speaker..??? what is that a 17X 12"?? lol..
terry

Steve D. · #**360** 11-13-2003, 10:52 AM

I usually don't get excited over 60's B&W sets but this one really struck me. What a great, trim design. And if it looks like a portable above that huge speaker says hi-fi below. What did they use to drive that speaker. Very unique.