Show us your vintage B&W sets!

[doug621ts]

Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV

Welcome Doug!

Haven't seen you in awhile... Heard that you moved away from Ontario?

Charles (with the former rental garage full of old TVs that you came to in Van Nuys a few years ago)

Hi Charles!
Long time! I live in Upland now and sold my home in Ontario and bought a condo in Lake tahoe though im not living there but nice to visit! I bought a "
Halbert" tv not a "Kaye Halbert". Its a table top with a 10" screen and very radical stepped middle section and very prnounced shoulders. Maybe you know about this set as I know nothing....maybe pre-Kaye Halbert?? The cabinet is getting re-finished right now so I dont have a picture of the set. Talk to you later.
Doug Peel

[doug621ts]

Thanks for the welcome Steve K. and Steve D. it was nice seeing you both on monday!
Hi John! Thanks for your welcome....love them color sets of yours!
Hey Eric! Thanks for the welcome! How is your collecting going? Any recent aquisition?
Lets see more of your sets out there!

[Tom_Ryan]

Hi Doug,

Long time no see. I know first hand what great sets you have. I'd always admire your collection on the various occaisions we met at your place. Say, when did you get your CT-100? Does yours have a good tube? Looks like you thinned out the many the larger sets, except the blonde CTC-5. I still have the Packard Bell with the 27" round glass metal tube (remember the spare tube!- it was good and was just what was needed to replace the original tube which was gassy). I restored the electronics and the set works extremely well.

It's a predictable crowd here on AK and can sometimes get rather entertaining. Lots of great technical tips being shared too.

Welcome aboard!

Tom

[doug621ts]

[QUOTE=Tom_Ryan]Hi Doug,

Long time no see. I know first hand what great sets you have. I'd always admire your collection on the various occaisions we met at your place. Say, when did you get your CT-100? Does yours have a good tube? Looks like you thinned out the many the larger sets, except the blonde CTC-5. I still have the Packard Bell with the 27" round glass metal tube (remember the spare tube!- it was good and was just what was needed to replace the original tube which was gassy). I restored the electronics and the set works extremely well.

It's a predictable crowd here on AK and can sometimes get rather entertaining. Lots of great technical tips being shared too.

Welcome aboard!
Hi tom!
Good to hear from you! Im glad to hear that the Packard bell set is still around and now working! I was not too sure about the spare tube but glad it worked out! I had thinned out some of my collection, mostly the large bulky consoles and some of the common "bland" sets. I got my CT-100 back in the beginning of this year however the CRT is down to air....how typical! Did you restore that RCA "Director" CTC4 set? I really like that model and wish my "Director" was in good shape! Thanks for the welcome!
Doug

[bgadow]

I brought this Pilot back to life a few weeks ago. Now that the server has breathing room I thought I would post a pic. This was the best screenshot I could come up with. Someday a 3KP4 will show up. Soon I will repost some older pictures in this thread, ones that dissappeared in awhile back.

[gary k.]

Got this a while back and after much work (and help), got this up and running great. Picture is awesome - can't see it with the flash but the picture is "Your Hit Parade". Cabinet has a few issues with the top of the left door but the top was always covered with glass so it's perfect. I might try to touch up. Another AK member had this in black...this is the jade green version. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

[Aage]

But I can remember seeing thousands of them as a kid. Crosley was a big brand around here (Toronto).

My parents had a Crosley about this size, but the bottom was a drawer that held an AM FM (yep, FM, years before the band was in use here) plus a record changer. All finished in blond wood, a real beauty.

This was kind of hiding behind an ugly old couch, and may have been repainted, but all the knobs are still there and it was in (almost) one piece.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Aage

But I can remember seeing thousands of them as a kid. Crosley was a big brand around here (Toronto).

My parents had a Crosley about this size, but the bottom was a drawer that held an AM FM (yep, FM, years before the band was in use here) plus a record changer.

Toronto isn't that far from Buffalo, New York. People who owned FM radios before there were FM stations in Toronto could likely get stations from south of the border. Also, many AM/FM radios (and three-way TV combos) were sold to folks living in areas miles from the nearest FM station; the radios in these were likely used only or mostly on AM, which resulted in the FM oscillator tube eventually failing to start or starting intermittently.

Crosley was popular in this country as well in the 1950s. My folks had a blond Crosley "Super V" 21-inch transformerless TV they bought used, IIRC, in the early sixties; we had it until the early '70s, and it was still working well even then. I'll never forget watching that set one afternoon when I was seven years old. During a commercial break, one of the Cleveland TV stations ran a Conelrad (the United States cold-war era emergency broadcasting network, now replaced by the Emergency Alert System) test. Seeing the old "CD" symbol (a triangle inside a large black dot with the letters CD, for Civilian Defense, in black in the middle, themselves overlaying a red dot when viewed on a color set--on b&w TVs it was all black, white and shades of gray) as big as life on that 21" TV screen used to scare the daylights out of me--I thought for sure the Russians were going to blow Cleveland, northeast Ohio and every place else within 100 miles in all directions (!) off the map any second.

[wa2ise]

No TV sets, but still vintage electronics. 2 reel to reel decks (a stereo playback mono 4 track record Sonora, and the 2nd a Viking), a bunch of test equipment with the family cat (Eico o'scope, a TV FM sweep generator, emission tube tester, and I think a Hickok VTVM and a radio tuner. Another is my mom and grandma preparing Thanksgiving dinner next to an Admiral AA5 radio in the kitchen, and a Rec-o-kut turntable in a homebuilt base. Last picture is a shortwave radio project my father built, here he is selecting placement of some trimmers (he finished it and it worked fine). All these were taken around 1960 or so.

[bgadow]

I wanted to share some of my recent finds. Yep, stuff still comes out of the woodwork, even when you don't look too hard!

The first 2 are from a weekend getaway we took recently to Pennsylvania. The others I got from a local tube audio collector who I often swap with.

1) This turned up at the Zern's Farmers/Flea Market, not too far from Pottstown (Douglasville?). An indoor vendor had this for $10. An attractive color, I feel, and a brand that doesn't show up much (my first): Olympic. Someone posted a similiar set earlier this year, but I didn't search enough to find it. I don't know if the other one was an Olympic but the thing they have in common is that they are made in Japan. Very American in design. Heavily built with a wrinkle finish on the metal portion of the cabinet. UHF seems to be an afterthought but at least it's there. The set powered up but with only a partial raster & nothing but static for audio.

2) This was at an inside booth at Renniger's Adamstown Flea Market. Wow, what a place! The best one we hit. The vendor was gone but luckily his neighbor was watching the booth. It is an Emerson with a solid bakelite cabinet, paint-speckled but in good overall shape. The crt had a brightener-it tests just mediocre after a good warmup. Worth the $20 I paid, I would say.

3) This is a CBS Columbia 17" table model in a metal cabinet, in good overall condition. My friend who found it said it initially sold at auction for an unbelievable $150. Shortly thereafter it showed up in another auction house, where he was able to buy it for just a few dollars. That shows the fickle nature of this hobby, I guess. Nothing real exciting about the TV except perhaps the label on the back. No surprise that CBS would be pushing its system like that. There is a socket on the back & additional label (let me know if anyone is interested in a photo of it); there are a few wires running to that socket, which has a cap over it.

4) My first Olympic, my first CBS TV, now my first Setchell-Carlson. An odd way to make a 19" portable, for sure, but then S-C like to do things different. The cabinet is a little beat up and there are some scratches in the CRT face, so this won't be a "museum piece". I thought this was early sixties but then I saw the address on the back has a zip code so I guess they made these later on.

[Bobby Brady]

I suspect that pink Olympic to be extremely rare in such beautiful condition.

That sticker announcing the color TV adaptor is the most interesting to me. That must be the rarest thing of all to find in that area of stuff. I suspect that 3 color sticker was at the bottom left of the picture tube when new and someone put it in the back? Does anybody remember seeing one on a showroom floor?

[Chimes]

Been lurking here for a while. Glad to see so much interest in restoring these old TV's. I just finished an Admiral 20X1. For any interested the restoration is documented at:

http://www.radioremembered.org/admiral20x1.html

[Sandy G]

Great job !! Welcome to AK ! There are all sorts of vintage TV 'nutz" here...You're in good company..

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by Chimes

Been lurking here for a while. Glad to see so much interest in restoring these old TV's. I just finished an Admiral 20X1. For any interested the restoration is documented at:

http://www.radioremembered.org/admiral20x1.html

Chimes,

Just want to compliment you on an outstanding site. Great job of documenting your restoration of the Admiral and the other sets.

-Steve D.

[Chimes]

Thank you very much.

Bill