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08-05-2014, 10:31 PM
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Third time I'm trying to type the exact same set of thoughts that login expiration erased twice on trying to post while at work this afternoon.
I've always associated tube electronics most strongly with the smell of cherry pipe tobacco and found it to be a pleasant scent. The tech that gave me the knowledge to go from collector to restorer smoked it. His shop and the tube radios he had for sale had that smell to them as did some sets I had acquired before then. My grandpa Ed smoked the same stuff too. It should come as no surprise that when I realized I was old enough to smoke I quickly moved to cherry pipe tobacco. I know it's not the best for my health so I try to keep it to once a week and I've refrained for over a month at times...But tend to crank it up to ~4 times a week when college gets rough. I figure it's very low risk compared to those folks who like to smoke chains. I don't get addicted this way and the nicotine high is easier to achieve when I'm not dulling it's effects by having it too often.
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08-05-2014, 11:46 PM
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Ah pipe smoke. My first job in a shop was w/a 60 yr old WW II vet who was in France, had a real sense of humor was winding down but knew GE faults thoroughly. Came in at 11 sharp went on the road from 1:30 on and that was it. His favorite trick was to make noises just when I plugged in a set.
Still some of his 57-69 GE fact'r'y manuals and if I catch a whiff of pipe tobacco in them anymore, Im in that shop again, with the tube boxes facing me from the back wall and a KE chassis likely on the bench. Burkum Riff something it was called, black pouch. It added atmosphere to the dusty relics of a once-upon-a-time 4-man shop. Was not much fun riding from home and back close to the ashtray in the service wagon, Dodge Colt, a three diamonds product. The tube caddy reeked when we took it in the homes.
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08-06-2014, 12:07 AM
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Getting back to the "tv smell"...
I have LONG noticed that vintage RCA sets-- back to at least the CTC5 era ..this includes console stereos too--have 'their own smell". I can't really describe this--it is NOT a bad smell, but a UNIQUE one. Not really a metallic odor, not a wood odor. Just that ol' "RCA SMELL" .
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08-06-2014, 07:01 PM
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08-06-2014, 07:22 PM
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It may INDEED have something to do with the wood cabinets--not sure the plastic ones do it...
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08-06-2014, 10:40 PM
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I guess the you KNOW what I mean. No ONE ELSE seems to. It is a rather "uinique" smell-- the "RCA SMELL". not sure what causes it either.
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08-06-2014, 07:59 AM
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The Sony colour set my Mam (or Mom, vowels move around in regional English English) had a characteristic warmish smell, quite pleasant. Talking of pipe smell: I could always tell when Uncle Reg had come for a visit as you could smell his pipe as soon as you walked in the door & for hours after he'd gone. Mam was a heavy smoker & she got lung cancer, it reduced a strong Woman to an invalid, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. When I see teens smoking it makes me feel so sad for them. BTW I've never smoked..
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08-07-2014, 12:33 AM
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08-06-2014, 07:17 PM
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Far too often I click on a thread thinking it's new, only to find it's been on going for a while,
or even more than a year, and I've been missing something good......... I start reading from page 2, then go backwards..... Sandy; Tell me where I can get yer first book, and by now I assume yer well into yer second, so please post a link when it's out..... .
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08-06-2014, 07:27 PM
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My earliest remembrances of my Mom was curled up on her lap/chest-HARD to believe I was EVER that small-nursing a milk bottle, while she & my Dad watched Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC, on the big Zenith B/W. The "Den" was quite small, & that Zenith was a 24 or maybe a 27", FULL of tubes, & IT could certainly "Fog" up the room. She didn't smoke when I was layin' on her like that, well as I recall. She was a TINY woman, I could pick her up by the time I was 11-12 or so, put her on my hip, & stomp thru the house w/her squallin', screechin', laughin' to PUT ME DOWN !! Oh, to be able to do that just one more time...
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08-06-2014, 10:07 PM
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Unboxing the new sets
I remember un boxing the new sets in the early 70's. Wow the smell takes me back too of the cabinets and the smell of a new set as it heats up. It was like christmas for me. Setting up those sets was a breeze for me. Sure miss that.
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08-07-2014, 06:19 AM
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Cool thread, I remember unboxing new Chromacolor 2's in the late 70's.
I LOVED the smell of them out of the box, and of course the showroom floor on a Saturday when they were all fired up, all tuned into a Nebraska-Oklahoma game.
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08-07-2014, 07:30 AM
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The only "RCA smell" I recall is the funny smell I got when I fired up a couple of high-mileage sets.
 They didn't stay with me long. A beat-up mid 80s XL-100 console and a '77 12" B&W, neither a big loss.Quote:
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