How do you display your sets?

[Electronic M]

I've done shelves with 90 degree support brackets below before (not sure how the ones in the picture stay up without them ). I've got one in my A/V closet supporting MUCH more gear than I can lift at once. and I've got a test equipment shelf mounted to the wall over my work bench that gets a LOT of heavy stuff placed on it.

Back when I was into radios only I had some real nice looking brackets, and shelf wood ready for such a project, but never got to it...

Brackets or however they did it in that picture you will have three fundamental issues with putting TV on shelves like that: Finding shelf wood that deep/sturdy, the leverage factor of the depth adding extra strain to the hardware, and finding 90 degree brackets deep enough to do the job.

If I ever go with wall shelves it will only be for radios and my smaller(shalllow 50's-70's sets)/lighter TVs....As it stands the radios I'd put on the wall would free up a good floor standing shelf I could use for TVs.

[Adam]

I've been rearranging stuff, trying to fit more sets in my back room. Right now I've got 23 TVs and 16 radios in here. The first 3 pics are what I have in the back room, the last pic is in the front room. (They're crappy cell phone pics because both my digital cameras seem to have broken)

[Adam]

This place I just moved to has a finished basement, and I moved most of my working sets down here. First 3 pics are the front wall from right to left. Next pic is the right wall. Then 2 parts of the back wall which are separated by the stairs.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Adam

This place I just moved to has a finished basement, and I moved most of my working sets down here. First 3 pics are the front wall from right to left. Next pic is the right wall. Then 2 parts of the back wall which are separated by the stairs.

Nice set up.

Is that an 8-track changer?

If you ever decide to sell that chrome Zenith table top I'd make you a generous offer on it.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Adam

This place I just moved to has a finished basement, and I moved most of my working sets down here. First 3 pics are the front wall from right to left. Next pic is the right wall. Then 2 parts of the back wall which are separated by the stairs.

That tabletop Zenith on top of the white color console Zenith, I think it's a 17" or 18" screen set. I have seen only one more like it which was on eBay maybe a year and a half ago. Same one by any chance?

[old_tv_nut]

Nice! How many can you run at once without blowing a breaker?

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

Nice! How many can you run at once without blowing a breaker?

Most of those Zeniths and similar monochrome sets Adam has draw 1.6 amps. Tube color is about 3.3, much less for the Chromacolor SS, heavy as they are.

The answer is a combination of those two. I think maybe 10 of those BW sets can run more than 3 hours (16 amps load) on a 20 amp or 7 sets if its a 15 amp breaker. Take away two BW, to add a color set.

I built a new room with six outlets around the perimeter, all on a 20 amp breaker with no other receptacles on that circuit, even lights. There will be 12 BW consoles and 5 color TV's. I probably will not have all of them fit to run at the same time and THAT is a retirement dream.

[Adam]

That's an RCA 5 8-track changer. It actually worked when I got it, I've never even taken it apart to see what it looks like inside.

I'm not looking to sell that chrome Zenith. After I fix my 1970 Zenith color console with the hybrid chassis, I'll put that one in the living room and put my 1974 Avanti with flat chassis which is up there now in that empty space next to the chrome one down here.

I've had 15 of them on at once (but only for a few minutes, and that didn't include any of the tube color). But then, I don't know if all the outlets in this room are on the same circuit or not. And that 67 Zenith rectangular tube color console is the only one I have down here that I haven't gotten working yet.

[Countryford]

I thought I had posted pictures, but apparently I hadn't. Anyways, here is my collection. As you can see, I collect more than just TV sets. Thankfully I have the room for everything.

[cwmoser]

Originally Posted by Countryford

I thought I had posted pictures, but apparently I hadn't. Anyways, here is my collection. As you can see, I collect more than just TV sets. Thankfully I have the room for everything.

Thats pretty nifty. How deep is that upper shelf?

[hi_volt]

Here's a few pictures of one of my display rooms.

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by hi_volt

Here's a few pictures of one of my display rooms.

Very nice and neat display. Great collection of dealer banners.

-Steve D.

[Countryford]

Originally Posted by cwmoser

Thats pretty nifty. How deep is that upper shelf?

The loft? Its about 3'6" deep. Have enough room for me to walk behind it, that is when I don't have things stored back there. LOL

[Adam]

It's the same one, 17JC55 chassis from 1977. That white 1974 Zenith 19" solid state b/w next to it was part of the same guy's collection which wound up on ebay.

I've never figured out which remote it uses. The Zenith manuals I have say SC600. But I've never found an SC600Z mechanical remote where the frequencies are right (and I've tried the ones with the orange, white, and blue on/off button). I've used a SC1000 electronic remote with it, and then it works like it should (with 5 separate frequencies: on/off, vol, ch up, ch down, mute - not 4 like the SC600 mechanical remotes). But because this tv doesn't have zoom, and all the SC1000 remotes have the zoom button that one isn't right either. I've been wondering if there isn't some mysterious 5-button electronic remote without the zoom which Zenith made specifically for this model.

[Jon A.]

Sounds like it uses a remote I've seen on eBay maybe twice but I can't remember if they had a zoom button. It's a shorter, wider electronic remote whose form factor was commonly used but these had a single volume button. Usually these remotes have volume lo/hi and channel lo/hi buttons side by side. As I recall the single volume button was in one of those rows of two.