RCA 21" color test jig (freebie)

[mhardy6647]

Perhaps this belongs in "for sale/WTB", but this is a free offer with only one or two small strings attached. I HOPE someone at AK could take advantage of this.

My father is a long-retired TV repairman. Last month, my wife and I (very successfully) moved him from his dilapidated house near Baltimore, MD to a very nice apt. in Shelby, NC. He is very happy there, so far (I am pleased to report). Early in March, we'll be performing what I hope is the final clean-out of his house.

His repair shop was in the basement. There is one piece of gear there I'd love to find a good home for. It's his old 21" color test jig. This is the cabinet, tube, and yoke from an old, table-model RCA color set with a woodgrain-finished metal cabinet (with separate safety glass). The 21" round tube in it should be in very good shape (i.e., not used too much, and not at all in the last 20 or more years). The condition of the cabinet used to be excellent, although it is on the floor in the basement and has probably been subjected to numerous small floods.

If ANYONE in the DC/Baltimore region would be interested in this test jig, please let me know. I'd hate to dumpster a good 21" tube!

The catch: you'd have to pick it up while I am there (a couple of weeks from now). I have neither photos, nor do I know which tube is in it. The tube may well be a newer, bonded-face tube, but I just don't remember anymore (and I didn't look when we were there in February).

Veteran AKers only, please. Hope it's of interest to someone here!

Thanks.

PERHAPS it's a CTC-5 cabinet... IIRC it looks like this one (presuming that the cabinet in this picture is metal and not wood). The finish on my father's is dark (Ersatz mahogany) not light, though.

[blue_lateral]

If only I was closer..... Hope somebody saves it.

John

[Tim]

PM Sent.

[mhardy6647]

Thanks, Tim... I'll get back to you.

I hope this is obvious, but I offer this free so someone can USE it; I ask that you don't flip it on eBAY for fun & profit. :-(

Note: my father said he thinks the tube is 21FJP22 which he installed new (converting from an old metal tube).

EDIT: THanks, folks... Tim's got dibbies. I hope it is as decent condition as I think it is.

[vintagecollect]

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[mhardy6647]

I was not looking for cash, only a local pickup by the enduser. Tim responded first, and meets both criteria. It was not for sale; I could not have posted it in this forum if it were. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

[vintagecollect]

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