Yes thanks for that video Modification, was having trouble with this on mine , original circuit strange.

I'd like to get all RCA stuff of course, if I need anything I'll get in touch with you. :thmbsp:

Thats one nice looking cabinet. I bet it will be a performer.

I like that chassis layout. I've never looked at a 5, that I remember. I think the oldest one I worked on was a CTC-7.

The woodwork is top notch, it's no wonder this was RCA's most expensive offering that year. :yes:

Just got back from the hardware store, $2.50 bought me little self adhesive felts to put under the top glass. Not sure if it came with glass from the factory or the owner had it made, my guess is he had it made to protect the set. I got this from the original owner BTW, still sitting in the same room it was installed in back in 1956. Cable was even still attached to it, suppose I should load up the cell phone pics of the place...


Here's the house.

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Set was down in the basement, doors had to be removed to get it out.

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Still connected to the cable coming out of the wall...

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Inside the HV cage. I put the variac on it, to make sure it produces HV. Everything seems in order, just very dusty.

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'Couple more shots.

With the back removed. I just realized it's missing the bottom high frequency driver, shouldn't be too hard to locate. I think they are the same as the ones used in later cabinets.

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CRT neck, it's the original.

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All loaded up in the U-Haul truck, heading back to Waukegan.

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No tweeter? JUNK IT. Send it to me!!

What's your address? :D

Sorry, lost my head for a moment...

If I brought a set of that size in my house, I'd have to put it in the kitchen!

Great score Nick! All the best with that DeLuxe 5!! :thmbsp:
Kevin

Also the same as used in many mid to late 50s RCA Stereos. I have some somewhere !

Let me know if you find one Colin, we'll meet up at some point I'm sure.

Found ! will drop it off at Bob's .

Excellent, thanks Colin!

Cool set with a cool background. That story reminds me of the place I got my 67 Airline from. Pretty much same story only second floor of the house/Podiatrists office it was installed in and the set still working good enough for reception (if the cursed DTV switch had not ocured before then).

I love seeing this kind of perspective. We are discussing an "antique", very early example of color-TV technology, and its original location. I look at the picture of that house, and to me it is a NEW house. I mean, it is a ranch-style house, and those are post-war... Well, maybe any post-World-War-2 home only always seems "new" to me because in my 51+ years of life I have lived in homes built since the 1920s only about five years total, and in a post-1950 home for less than two years out of those 51.