61' Capehart B/W combo

[polaraman]

I picked up this set today at the Habitat for Humanity Resale store. It is a thrift store 2 miles from my house. This thing should sound pretty good. It has FIVE speakers per side!!!!!!! That is 10 speakers total. I am thinking two are for the TV and the other eight are for the record player and AM/FM radio. I will have to get into it to see what the deal is. I bought it for the whopping sum of $24.00. Too bad it was not a color set.


polaraman

[polaraman]

Speakers!

polaraman

[Dan Starnes]

You just dont see that everyday!! Nice score!
Dan

[Captain Video]

Hehehe, with THAT amount of THAT type os speakers, this thing can end the tranquility of ANY neighborood...

[kbmuri]

Spectacular!

[polaraman]

I need some schematic help on this one. The set is 1P56 Tuscany. Stamped on the Tv chassis is 21N95 and another set of numbers above it 0025. Tube location guide for the receiver says Series 2500R. It appears as though SAMS did not make a photofact for this set. Am I looking in the wrong place? Is this a Dumont/Capehart set? Help please!!

polaraman

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by polaraman

I picked up this set today at the Habitat for Humanity Resale store. It is a thrift store 2 miles from my house. This thing should sound pretty good. It has FIVE speakers per side!!!!!!! That is 10 speakers total. I am thinking two are for the TV and the other eight are for the record player and AM/FM radio. I will have to get into it to see what the deal is. I bought it for the whopping sum of $24.00. Too bad it was not a color set.


polaraman

That's a very nice looking entertainment center (I'd say '50s or sixties, but given the fact the TV only has a VHF tuner [if it has UHF I don't see the other tuner], I'd say it's probably no later than 1963), all right, but I wonder about the size of the screen (I think that's what you were referring to in the title of this thread). Sixty-one feet? The CRT looks to me as if it is no more than 23" at best. Where did that 61' figure come from?

BTW, I hope you get it working. These older TVs are great, built much better than today's black-plastic cube sets. The cabinet looks like a fine piece of furniture as well.

The sound quality should be excellent too, with five speakers on either side of the cabinet. A lot of those old three-way sets were built with premium sound systems; in the late sixties I had a Zenith 23" b&w console with a 6x9 oval speaker in the base of the cabinet, a tone control, and a 6BN6/6BQ5 audio stage. The sound was great! So good, in fact, that I eventually patched an old FM tuner into the sound channel (across the TV's volume control). The sound, again, was excellent. I'd have kept that set for several years after this modification, but I moved about three years after getting the thing working (it needed all new tubes--it was a trash-day find, and someone had filched every tube from it except the 1J3 HV rectifier and the CRT) and wound up trashing the whole thing, including its nice wood cabinet. And after all that work I put into it...

[Eric H]

Great set Rich!
I have a similar Curtis Mathes but I don't think the speakers are anywhere near that nice.

[polaraman]

The 61' refers to the tag on the back that says it was sold new June 13, 1961. It is a 23CP4 crt.

4 of the speakers are for the TV. The other 6 on the front are for the Radio/phono.

If I had a SAMS I would get right on it. It has a lot of black beauties in the chassis. I will have to attempt to calculate all the colored stripes.

polaraman

[Bill Cahill]

Nice set!! Hope you get it working. Looks like it should play great. If picture tube is bad, and I suspect it is, it may be hard to find. The IF transformers in radio MAY have migration problems. Great score.

[Tony V]

Nice find Rich! Any chance of showing pics of the radio and record changer? The way the picture tube fits into the bezel gives sort of a Motorola of that era look to it. I always loved the combo's with doors that covered the screen. Cant wait to hear more about it!
-Tony

[bgadow]

That's a unique chassis mounting...and Philco had the nerve to call their setup "cool chassis"! Plenty of airflow there. It would be interesting to know who built the guts. Maybe an EIA code somewhere?

[polaraman]

Here is the receiver and phono. Receiver selector switch has AM, FM, FM-AFC, RIAA, LP, 78, Stereo Phono, and FM-AMX.

polaraman

[polaraman]

Selector switch!

[Tony V]

I had one of those changers in an Emerson two piece one time. Was a cool changer in the fact that the platter stopped during the cycle, dropped the record and when the tonearm set on the record the platter would start spinning again. Looks like a top notch set. Cant wait to see how it works.
-Tony