Stromber Carlson K-1 Color TV

[Steve K]

It has been a long time since I started a thread on here so I'm not sure I remember how.

It was a year ago today (Jan 5) that my friend and fellow TV collector Ed Reitan passed away. Ed had bequeathed his rare Stromberg Carlson 15 inch color set to me. I helped Ed recap the chassis about 5 years ago. We got a picture on the set but had problems with the color. The color oscillator coil broke and Bob Galanter kindly repaired it for Ed. However, I was never to get back to Omaha and Ed never got the chance to finish it. I was able to pick the TV up this past summer and take to my Wisconsin home. I finally got a chance to work on it a few days ago and was able to get a fairly good picture on it. It has a unique system of obtaining purity and static convergence. There is a color picture but it is missing the green signal. Bob is going to visit next week and we will see if we can fix that. If not, it will have to wait until I can come back to Wisconsin in May.

Here are some pictures (if they load OK!)...

Steve