1953 Motorola from Canton

[peverett]

No luck so far. Most of the knobs I have are 36K....... I do have several 36C700889 channel selector knobs. I think these are for the 17 inch sets.

I will keep checking.

[bgadow]

One of the tools on my bench is an old toaster oven. A couple minutes in there and these come apart pretty easily. I would hesitate just a little with this, not knowing just how it might be effected. I have seen coils something like this, but typically they are just a few winds of larger wire.

I have a pile of knobs but would have to go by pictures to try and match. I don't think any of the NOS I have are this old.

[Charlie]

I'm not worried about re-stuffing the cap. My concern is the coil around it... not screwing it up when I heat up the cap. I'd really like to try sliding the coil off the cap so that i can comfirm the value of the cap. The schematic and parts list have a minor discrepancy between the two, but I'm thinking there's a typo error on the part's list.

I can't really get a good picture of the knobs on the Sams. I'll put that on the back burner for now. Come to think of it, the other Motorola I saw at Canton was a 17" model and about the same year... maybe off by a year. It probably used the same knobs this one does or damn close to it.

I'll give my toaster oven a try! Thanks!

[Charlie]

One of the things I noticed was the color of the lettering on the CRT base... it's blue. I've never noticed blue before. I'm guessing this was RCA's way to signify a rebuild at that time. On color tubes, their rebuilds were called Colorama. This one is called Monogram. This is the first time I've seen that name.

[Reece]

Since nobody really mentioned it yet, I'm gonna say that the insulation got packed in there by some mousies; I've seen that sorta thing before. Bet they had itchy toes.

Reece