Odd Sets You Would Like To Find
 

Is there an odd model TV you would like to run across for your collection ? I'm not into the Danish Modern style sets that much and prefer the more traditional styled cabinets (french provincial, itallian provincial, or straight legs sets), but this one little cheapy set would be a great find for me. I posted it before. At first I didn't think I cared for it, but it has kind of grown on me.
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/att...1&d=1213131499

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It's a 1969 Ward's Airline Color. Since a lot of people couldn't afford color in the 60''s, this was an affordable option. If I had been around in 1969 I could picture myself watching cool shows like Adam 12 on it. :thmbsp:

I'd like to find a remote CTC7 or maybe another '50s color set NOT made by RCA. I like that little Wards set too, I like the metal cabinet (I think it's metal and if not, I still like it) and the small size. Personally, I'd take anything in a Danish Modern cabinet. RCA made some great looking ones, Zenith too.

Kuba Komet
The last GE Portacolor model
Sylvania HaloLite
Zenith pedestal-consolette chromacolor

I'd like to find:
the 19" RCA set my parents had with the two-button ultrasonic remote, bought around 1970.
One of the later (78-80) console B&W sets
77-78 black & silver 19" Zenith B&W set
RCA CTC-40 Lundberg (GM-663)
Early Silvertone or Truetone color set
A Coronado or Setchell Carlson set too.

Let's see what I can think of:

1. Any roundie color set
2. Any tube type Zenith set in a metal cabinet (color or B&W)
3. Early large screen color horizontal solid state chassis Zenith in metal cabinet
4. Early '70's Truetone black metal cabinet tube type 14" color set (we had one when I was growing up)
5. Early '70's 9" GE AC/DC B&W in a leather case (had one of those, too)
6. Any late '70's-early '80's large screen B&W
7. Later GE portacolor
8. Early '70's 19" RCA tube type color hospital set
9. Early '70's 23" RCA mural TV in metal cabinet
10. Mid '60's Motorola rectangular color set in beige metal cabinet
11. Early-mid '60's 19" RCA B&W w/ knobs on top of case. The first TV I ever fixed was like this.

OK, I'll stop now because I've run out of room!

First, I need to "find" a bigger house. :)

Then, I'd like to find a round-screen Heathkit color TV, and a Belmont 21A21 B&W set.

Motorola TS-905 with the long legs (the kind that hold the set up high enough for the dog to sleep under)....
That would make me real happy!

Sets that I don't already have that I'd most like to find:

1. remote ctc-7
2. Zenith porthole (any model except a combo)

A Sony KV-7010; the first color Sony sold in the USA. Small 7" portable in a leatherette and chrome case, with real safety glass out front. I had one in ROUGH shape, sold it thinking I'd find a better one; never did. And any Kaye-Halbert sets, of course!

Charles

A Philco TV-123, or any non-RCA color set of the 50s for that matter. A Setchell-Carlson color set. The set I grew up with, a GE 23v console, KE chassis, though any parallel-string GE 23v would suffice. Among b/w, I would like to someday make the room for a mirror-in-lid and a projection set.

It's easy to make the list long! Picture owning an example from the sixties from every company that offered a color set...hmmm.

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The Rectangular Westinghouse color set is one I can think of.

A CT-100 would be nice but the CRT problem takes some of the shine off that idea.

Any Pre-War.

I had a kv-1710, what's so special about that one?

I'd like to find one of the early Zenith 14" color portable sets from the late 60s with the metal cabinets.

Someday, I would love to find a Dieter Rams Braun set like this, but it would probably be hard to find in the US.
http://vdm.io.tudelft.nl/fca/braun/brauntv.htm

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Ohhh OK, my error. Dyslexic much?! :scratch2: That does sound like quite a desirable set.

Through the late 70' and into the 80's our clan had 2 B/W console sets that I would pay good money to obtain, if I ever stumbled upon either one again.

The first was an RCA in the Danish Modern style. I don't know the exact year or model number, but it was made sometime after '68 when RCA dropped the meatball logo. I have searched old literature and cannot seem to find that exact set.
The second set was an Admiral low boy console in the Early American/Colonial style. I found sales literature on the web for it, looks like a '68/'69 model.

I wouldn't turn down a CT 100 if one became available, but certainly wouldn't go out of my way to get one. To me, the CT 100 is just butt ugly, and a real pain in the butt to keep functional, and the unobtainium parts make it all the more less attractive.

The upright B/W consoles of the mid to late 50's, to me are desirable. Problem is, they are almost always beat up when found, and the usual mahagony photofinish is impossible to repair. But most of them, brand is unimportant, make excellent sets.

And of course, late 50's / early 60's RCA color sets, after the CTC 9's, as well as the early Zenith color sets.

Also, always on the lookout for early XL 100's. They are not worth the trouble to most people, but properly adjusted are fine everyday performers.

you got it right on those xl100s.great sets and rca had it down pat when they built these!i use my ctc68 for my watcher and everyday i am amazed at the crisp,sharp,bright picture.who needs hd?also any cheap knock off roundie would be a prize for me.a dumont 30 incher is my dream set.love the one at the etf in hilliard.

As you'd expect from me, Zenith space command sets. One on my list is an 18" metal cabinet color set that had space command 300, model A5922. Also, any 23" metal cabinet table set with space command, like the B6707pictured. Lastly, Id like to find one of these 23" metal cabinet table sets with the separate UHF tuners like the one in the first picture on the right. Pics are out of my 69, 70, and 71 Zenith catalogs respectively.

Actually, a TV find wish came true. It was last October when I picked up that '69 Zenith 23" metal table set at the estate sale. I waited and waited for years to find one of those and finally one came across my way.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2009-3/1337386/69z1.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2009-3/1337386/70af.jpg

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2009-3/1337386/71zca.jpg

Considering the fact Australia didn't get colour transmissions until late 1974, we didn't have roundie sets. So I'd say any roundie colour TV set that exists in Australia!!! There might be a slight possibility of roundie sets down under after knowing that we had colour demonstrations as early as 1963.

Hi Gentlemen,

Picture of a Sony KV-7010, the first portable Trinitron, circa 1968.

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=129463

Can't post twice the same pix, sorry!

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

RobtWB: We have a new in the box XL-100 at the museum that we've been trying to unload for the last two years at our auction. You are welcome to it if you want to come and get it. Of course a donation to the museum would be welcomed.

A time machine so I can buy a brand-new CT-100, service spares and a pallet or two of 15GP22s.

I forgot to mention the Zenith roundie with 29JC20 chassis, preferably the Space Command version. Like Doug says, I'd like a few of the metal table tops too. I always wanted the 14" Zenith color portable from '68.

I have an eye on a space command. Been wanting one.

It would be cool to find any early Sony chromatron color tv using the single gun chromatron picture tube, working or not! They used all vacumm tubes (like Sony's first b&w small screen direct view tv sets and tape recorders). You don't often them, if ever, come across the sets outside their domestic Japanese market.

I want this Wards Airline projection set from 1950. I really like the way it looks.
And I bet there's room enough inside for a wheel to convert it to COLOR!!

Hi Tom Ryan,

My only picture of a Sony Chromatron, at the launch fiesta, 1961.

see here:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthr...=178843&page=2

Anybody have more; screen shots?

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France

A Telefunken Roundie as pictured in this magazine ad from December 1965...

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...12_14_1965.jpg

A Telefunken color TV made for the American market-now, that would be an interesting set indeed. I wonder if that one was ever even built? That ad is from an American distributor, so it was definitely NTSC.

I think it was just an RCA clone, completely built here...just badge engineered so that Telefunken dealers could offer a color TV. I don't know that for sure.

I'd like a Midland 15-126B B&W set from 1972. We had one when I was growing up, and I have a lot of fond memories.

One of them was NOT the set's reliability, however

The Truetone that I mentioned above was built by Midland - a hybrid color set. It always had a good picture; but, the vertical circuit was always giving some sort of trouble. There was an older man that worked out of his house that kept it going. It was finally retired when it developed a vertical sync problem. After it played for a few minutes, it would start rolling. The hotter it got, the more it rolled and the vertical hold control would not lock it. By this time, the old man had gotten out of the business and no shop wanted to work on it because it was a tube set. When the last shop refused to fix it, my Dad left it there and told them to toss it because he was tired of lugging the heavy beast around. I was only about 10 or 11 at the time, slightly before I started repairing TV's.

The Forecaster by General Electric.

Seems pretty obvious this was supposed to compete with the Predicta but it must have been a failure since I've never seen one show up.

I agree. Looks like a CTC-16 clone. RCA was still licensing these badge-engineered clones as late as '66. My Philco 16M91 roundie is an example of a '66 Philco model bearing suspicious resemblance to the RCA CTC-20. Still, the Telefunken branding itself would make that set distinctive and desirable.

My Dumont C-100 is a fine example of a distinctive set which was built around an "ordinary" RCA CTC-11 chassis design. The cabinet styling is what sets it apart from its RCA roots.

If I can't find a Telefunken roundie, I'd go for a Heathkit roundie...

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c4...ath_7_1965.jpg

That's an interesting Heathkit ad... "Too Technical", no, "Takes Special Test Gear", no, but then the ad has a big list of test instruments you can also order. ;)

The Hoffman stes from the '50's made use of the full colour transmission bandwidth. So did the RCA CTC-2.

Speaking of Hoffmans, add that to my list too. And, being "zenithfan1" I would love to have the 15" prototype Zenith color set. I'm not holding my breath for that one though, just a dream.