1966 Philco Color TV ad
 

This would be the 17MT80 chassis, not a clone at all.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1960s-Philco...item417330a306

I have that exact set, it makes a very nice pic.

The tuner and IF in those were first-class!

There was one in the HS VoTech shop that looked a bit newer and had a swivel base.
I tinkered with it till I couldn't make it look any better then it was given away to a poor someone in need of a color set.

Does yours have the tuning eye 6HU6?

If by first class you mean silicon...

That stupid Philco 17MT80 I had had P-E-R-F-E-C-T convergence, no fringes anywhere and I didn't even pay anything for it. Got it on a curb alert out of Minnesota, shipped to Chicago for $100 via uship. Had an arcing trace on the PCB, under the red out tube. Cleaned out the carbon, worked like a champ. I think Polar ended up with it.

no eye tube a real low end set. Mine too has perfect convergence. only odd think is an intermittant slight tint change, IIRC it was a blue on mine, the it like the screen drive would tick up a tiny bit, back and forth, I looked for solder joints, all good, did not see any carbon traces, I could wiggle a tube and get it to act up, but it was a LOT of wiggle, so it may have been some thing shifting from the movement. I was going to try a new tube socket just to be sure. I tried new diff amp tubes thinking maybe some kind of short, no joy there either.

I never got around to checking but I should have checked the cathode/G1/G2 voltage on the blue to at least isolate which was acting up see if I could catch it.

I'm very much trying to get rid of stuff right now, but I would sure make room for a non-clone Philco color set. The tuning indicator was one of the coolest gimmicks of that era.

I should ask my dad if he remembers that set. He was working for an electronics store in Memphis in the mid-60's that sold Philco. As a matter of fact, I own the Philco turntable (Philco Q-1562) he and my mother bought from there in 1967. Need to drag it out and work on it.......

The 17MT80 A B & C chassis are 1967 model year chassis. They are pretty much identical to the 1966
16QT85 25" chassis. The B & C chassis have the tuning eye. They employed the 21FJ or 21FB depending on model.

-Steve D.

our first color set was a philco ford set.i posted earlier about it.very good picture and it lasted about 7-8 years before the crt started going south.it was replaced by a d16 slide control sylvania.both bought at sun tv here in columbus.philco had a great tuner in those sets.i remember the tuning bars in the little window.

Here's a MAD look at color TV, a great back-cover ad spoof from from 1967:

http://www.madcoversite.com/mad110.html

That was good. I had to save it down to my hard drive.

Interesting. I have a Philco 16M91 chassis roundie from, IIRC, 1966. I wonder what the differences are between the two? Mine is buried right now; so, I can't get a look inside at the moment.

Good one! Watch that show up as an avatar...

That chassis and the one from 1965, the 15M91 are CTC15 clones IIRC. Not sure if Philco made the CRT.