I hate this kind of people
 

Just read the description:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Philco-TV-wo...item23277d0a74

The clowns think that it's going to sell faster that way. :nono:

Well, at least he apparently HASN'T "Gutted" it...Yet...There may still be hope for it...

Nice set. I hope it doesn't get gutted. I see it has this UHF option installed: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-but-...-/110995334873

I actually thought that "use it for an aquarium" was a joke. Do people really do this? When I acquired my first set, our family's 1950 Motorola, I only intended to use it as a piece of nostalgia.

It sounds like a clever use of reverse psychology, as an impetus for some kind soul to "rescue" the set.

Unfortunately, yes, people who are not into antique/vintage TV like we are will do this if they have no use for the TV (or if it doesn't work anymore), and if the cabinet was made of real wood and is in decent shape. I once saw a TV that had been modified this way, the chassis having been put out with the trash and the aquarium being mounted behind the CRT safety glass. Anyone who would do this to a good old TV that could be restored obviously does not care about the vintage or antique value of the television. :no:

This TV is presently in Youngstown, Ohio which has only UHF stations, so the UHF adaptor would have to have been in place if the owner were to get the local channels at all; otherwise, no TV (just snow) unless the owner wanted to go to the trouble of putting up a deep-fringe antenna to get Pittsburgh stations.

Hi All;
I just sent a personsl message to this guy.. Telling him that anyone who did this should be boiled in oil or tarred and feathered.. and that he should be ashamed for listing it as such.. It most likely will go on deaf ears, as he just wants the big bucks and doesn't what happens to the set..
THANK YOU Marty

In Milwaukee, they went to UHF, way early. You can imagine how many UHF converters were sold. They were pretty pricey back then.
It seemed the UHF stations were extremly weak. Our set had a Standard Coil cascode tuner, that had UHF strips. The UHF reception wasn't that great.
We had two VHF channels before that.

He only suggests it, far worse if it already was gutted.

There are way too many of these mid 50's sets for us to save them all, even if we had space for all of them there would not be enough CRT's to go around, sad but true.

My house is overrun with sets that I "Had to save".

Looks like it might be a 24" model.

If it is a 24" model his "suggestion" is even more criminal, because those 24" are rarer than the 21" ones.

I looked at TV Guide's website under "TV Listings" this afternoon after reading your post, input the zip code for the Milwaukee area, and found all three of the city's network TV stations are on VHF channels, channels four, six and twelve. When were these stations ever on numbers higher than 13? :scratch2:

I've heard this from people in person more than once who wanted to fishtank an old TV, or have come to me looking for a 'cheap' old nonworking tv to use as an "art project"... they say "Ill probably just smash that glass tube out with a hammer."

"Why not just unbolt it? I'll give you a few bucks for the tube if it's any good. Good luck finding a TV." :nono:

I'm refering to way back, early to mid 50's. It's all different now.
In the 50's, CBS was on channel 25, ABC was 12 and NBC was channel 4.
Channel 6 came later and was an independent channel. There was all kinds of strange events, regarding affiliations with the major networks. Still going on today. Nothing but politics. :no: