Roundie on Portland Craigslist - Videokarma.org TV - Video

gary k. · #1 10-24-2006, 11:17 AM

No price.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/zip/224243593.html

gary k. · #2 10-24-2006, 11:19 AM

Didn't catch this before my first post.

blue_lateral · #3 10-24-2006, 11:33 AM

ctc10 or 11 I think.

John

Bobby Brady · #4 10-24-2006, 12:02 PM

Now I hope one of you guys here will get it!
It's way too far for me but it's a genuine classic! I think that's early American cabinet stlye.

Phil Nelson · #5 10-24-2006, 12:05 PM

Wow, if I hadn't just gotten a CTC-11, I'd be on it. If I brought that thing home now, though, I'd end up sleeping in the garden shed. Plus, it's definitely too big to fit in the back of my wife's SUV.

Maybe I'll ask the guy to sell me the channel selector knobs if he can't find anyone to take it.

dano · #6 11-11-2006, 12:38 AM

I just picked up this TV tonight and have it shoe-horned between my car and the garrage door! This is my first post here, it seemed like a good thread to jump in on. I know the round color CRTs are hard to come by, so I got this set mainly to save any useful parts from the landfill, but don't have any plans beyond that. Anyway, it's nice to find that there other collectors out there, I don't have any free space but hate to see this stuff get trashed.

jpdylon · #7 11-11-2006, 10:17 AM

nice grab dano. i would really restore it and enjoy the vibrant color. These early color sets IMO have a much more natural looking picture than modern sets.

dano · #8 11-11-2006, 02:51 PM

I'm not sure what I'll do yet, I was trying to get rid of a few things so I'd have some more space, so much for that

I honestly don't care for that earily american cabinet style, but it's in nice shape and looks a little better in person, so maybe it'll grow on me. Plus someone already got the knobs so I'd have to replace those. I currently have a square tube RCA "new vista color" set for daily use. It probably needs some tlc because I have a hard time getting a nice looking picture on it. When I get more time I'll have to give it a tune up. I worry a little bit too about using a 40 year old TV that often, is picture tube live shortened by use??

blue_lateral · #9 11-11-2006, 05:02 PM

Yes, but those old ones had a lot more active material on the cathode. I had to have mine rebuilt (21fbp22), but it really had a bazillion hours on it. I don't watch a lot of TV, but this was my main set from 1980-2002 or so. It ran nearly 24-7 with it's original owners, and had 2 or 3 brighteners on it when I got it. It survived that, though I did zap it with a rejuvenator when I first got it. It didnt really go flat til about 2002 or so.

I dont think rejuvenators are that good of an idea, but these forums are full of stories of good tubes in these old sets, and stories where people have reactivated the cathodes by just running them a little hot with the set off for a few hours.

The catch is that there is only one rebuilder left, and it's kind of expensive, and there will probably come a day when we cant get that done anymore. My set is still on the bench, because I got sidetracked, but I intend to keep using it when it's done.

For what it's worth, the brightness is limited on these things by the efficiency of the phosphor more than the emission. Where mine was running the guns nearly as hard as they would go all the time I was using it, and producing a nice picture. It's hard to turn it down enough with the rebuilt tube. Though not completely set up yet, it seems to have much better cutoff, and better focus, especially on blue. The brightness is about the same as it was most of those years.

Number one of thing to worry about running a set this old, is to be sure the horizontal output tube current isn't too high.

John

dano · #10 11-11-2006, 07:34 PM

I guess I've got a lot to learn then! I know the basics from the radio world (dealing with leaky wax caps and such) and of course being careful with high voltage, maybe I should look for a book/website to get up to speed on this stuff. I was about 80% sure I was going to pick up a new(er) TV for daily use because a) I don't like having to use a modulator for non-TV video, b) because this is a typical '60s console where the picture tube is inches above the floor (I'd prefer a couple feet of height), and c) because I worry about something going out. Sorry if this is a little off topic or if this has been talked about on the site before. As a kid my dad had a Magnavox AM/FM/TV console stereo, don't remember about the stereo but the TV was B&W tube type. It never failed that I'd be right in the middle of a movie or TV show and the TV would quit. I remember him soldering away behind the TV trying to get it working again. I actually have a Motorola B&W set in my living room that I was going to use for daily use, it's a 50s style with the speaker under the picture tube, so at least it solved the height issue. It needs a little TLC and wasn't a project I wanted to take on, so I gave up on it. The thought of mounting a newer TV inside did cross my mind, I know it's a terrible thing to ask here, but has anyone done that? Of course I'd save the origional parts, or do that as a last resort on a set with a bad CRT. Also, what's the best way to deal with external video? Has anyone added an A/V input to an old set? I figure I'm SOL when HD takes over, so I'm trying to enjoy using my TVs to receive TV stations directly as long as I can. I've also thought about using a small transmitter I have creating a small station just for my house. Anyway, I'm right at that point where I need to decide what stays in the living room for daily use, any thoughts would be great.