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Originally Posted by JCFitz
There seem to be a lot of similar RCAs in your area. This cabinet is styled exactly like my 1951 RCA(even the same knobs on the doors) but I would say a different chassis configuration since it uses a round crt rather than a rectangular. The last table model you found had the exact same chassis as mine.If I was in your area and could have got it cheap enough it would have been good for a spare chassis. But he wanted too much for it and shipping would have cost even more(a lot more) to ship that chassis all the way from California to Maryland. Too bad the ones you are finding are so beat up and with bad crts. 
I think the tubes these particular RCAs used must have been especially leak prone kinda like the 15GP22 in the color sets since that one is dead and the other one you found and mine have been replaced with glass tubes long ago.
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I'm amazed every week to see how many vintage sets show up on CL within my driving area. I think it makes me slow to react on any one set especially when it's a fairly common one. Yesterdays set was probably not restorable in my opinion. I read a thread on Antique Radio Forum where Bill Cahill restored the same set and described it as likely to have a bad flyback and HV coil. So with the cabinet bad and the CRT bad and likelyhood of the flyback and HV coil bad I decided to pass on it even as a backup. The seller asked me if I would take it for 10 bucks. I said no..