My Tv's are back

[Tom S]

Well after almost one year I finally scored my Collector Tv's back from the clutches of my Now ex wife. One is in Storage and one is where I'm living now with my Brother. Thank god for him. Now I just got to find a better CRT for my CTC11. After standing I'ts not in the greatest shape.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Oh wow, Tom, sorry to hear that.

[Username1]

Whenever I see a title like "my tv's are back" I donow I always expect to see a nice
long paragraph or 5 where maybe they decided they needed to make a trip to the coast,
maybe sit with their legs in the ocean, maybe you put up signs on phone poles "missing tv"
with pictures....
Then one day they come waling up the sidewalk, say "hey I missed ya-"



So this is also the third divorce comment I think I've read involving something
to do with tv collections..... Is this a bad thing......

Maybe you guys need to stuff worse than collecting tv's..... Give that up,
less wife trouble, less tv trouble....

Good to see ya- got em back !

[Tom S]

Thanks Guys. Real collectors care. Hey Kevin they still play mint. Still lookin for a CRT for the 61 RCA. Cataract is still the same and no time to fix it

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Tom S

Thanks Guys. Real collectors care. Hey Kevin they still play mint. Still lookin for a CRT for the 61 RCA. Cataract is still the same and no time to fix it

Finding a really good 21FJ or a NOS CRT without a cataract is rather remote. You're better off removing the faceplate and cleaning the bad resin. It's also a lot cheaper.
There's plenty of posts on this forum, with the various methods that other collectors had great success with.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Tom S

Thanks Guys. Real collectors care

Yes we sure do..... WE VALUE THE BETTER QUALITY!!!!

Im glad ya got them back Tom

[TVTim]

I am willing to bet that your ex never cared for the old sets. Am I right?

[Tom S]

You are right. All junk to her.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Tom S

You are right. All junk to her.

Anyone who considers my TVs junk is junk to me.

Some jerk from a wealthy family turned down an invitation to come to my place to watch a movie on one of my sets, instead choosing his giant flat panel and of course the blu-ray disc from my combo pack. I called it quits with him for a number of reasons once he took a step too far, good riddance.

[RetroFormat32]

Boy, I'd love to watch a movie on a nice working color TV from the US! Stupid rich punks don't know how much these TVs paved the way for TV tech. I'm 16 and only ONE or two of my friends appreciate all the old stuff.

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by RetroFormat32

Boy, I'd love to watch a movie on a nice working color TV from the US! Stupid rich punks don't know how much these TVs paved the way for TV tech. I'm 16 and only ONE or two of my friends appreciate all the old stuff.

Yep. You DON'T know what a THRILL it was to see a Roundie color set back in the day when they were NEW... Even when they were properly set up, & back then, they often WEREN'T, they had a "Look" to them that is hard to describe, but it was immensely satisfying..

[zeno]

Originally Posted by RetroFormat32

Boy, I'd love to watch a movie on a nice working color TV from the US! Stupid rich punks don't know how much these TVs paved the way for TV tech. I'm 16 and only ONE or two of my friends appreciate all the old stuff.

G'day mate
Same thing with the young'ns in the states. Best way to show them
how good old electronics was is with a tube type Hi Fi & a good set of
speakers. You CAN NOT buy better sound without a pile of money &
and almost nobody does. There is good reason for tubes being used
still in the best amps. You are keeping a little history alive, be proud.
And dont forget the other old things, appreciate them. Maybe with
luck & hard work you can get an old Studebaker Hawk to drive, they
were popular in Australia.........

73 Zeno

[Sandy G]

Women generally are at best, INDIFFERENT to our strange collecting wants/desires/needs.. My wife will stick her head in the "Ships' Radio Room", curl her lip in feigned disgust, snort, maybe, & inquire as to "Why Don't you Clean This Up ?!?" But she sees how much pleasure they give me, & figures maybe a junked-up room or 2 ain't TOO bad, in the overall scheme of things..

[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

Women generally are at best, INDIFFERENT to our strange collecting wants/desires/needs.. My wife will stick her head in the "Ships' Radio Room", curl her lip in feigned disgust, snort, maybe, & inquire as to "Why Don't you Clean This Up ?!?" But she sees how much pleasure they give me, & figures maybe a junked-up room or 2 ain't TOO bad, in the overall scheme of things..

Sandy has it about right as Mr Squirrel says. We accept that besides being male and female, we are very different in other ways.

Ive been married 17 years. My wife got me a wedding present, a 1936 GE AM-SW floor model. I got her a big chunk of rose quartz.
We still have both. I respect her shoes, clothes and books. I dont comment unless the credit card bill can't be paid off that month.

She rarely says anything about another radio, TV or appliance showing up but she always notices when something is in the back of the truck.
Having your own room and some spare time is key to this hobby, no matter where you squeeze it from.

I was married before for two years in the late 80s. My ex cared little for this stuff. I saw a rare 1934 Philco console radio-RP at a yard sale, moved both seats in my VW Rabbit forward so I could stuff it in. And endured bitching the whole way home. I still have that radio, its in our bedroom!

[Jon A.]

Congrats on getting them back. Seems that the bad women out there will always go after our prized possessions. Not that they actually want the items for themselves, they're just being vindictive. Both genders are guilty of all kinds of wrongdoing, but the women it seems to me aren't held responsible nearly as often.