Tradiovision

[Steve McVoy]

Yes, I got it. I thought it was a unique set, and we have a little space left in our projection set area.

Is there any AK member that is near Grand Rapids that could pick the set up and hold it until mid December? I'd be willing to pay for gas.

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by Steve McVoy

Yes, I got it. I thought it was a unique set, and we have a little space left in our projection set area.

Is there any AK member that is near Grand Rapids that could pick the set up and hold it until mid December? I'd be willing to pay for gas.

Hopefully someone will have a better solution than my "maybe." How soon does it need to be picked up? I'm in Bath, Michigan but I don't have a vehicle that could transport it. One of my neighbors restores vintage telephones and travels a lot. He recently offered to pick up another set I was interested in bidding on so he might be willing to help with this.

Another issue is that neither of us have space to store it. I believe I could find someone willing to do that though. It might be close, or it might be as far as Laingsburg, MI.

As I said, hopefully someone has a better solution.

John Y.

[Steve McVoy]

I did win it, and I picked it up yesterday. The tuner unit was there, too, though I had to pay extra for it.

The screen is a very thin flexible plastic.

There will be pictures on the website soon.

[jeyurkon]

Yay!

Doesn't seem fair though that you had to pay extra for the tuner. What would anyone else do with it?

John

[Phil Nelson]

Still a pretty good deal for $56.99!

Phil Nelson

[Steve McVoy]

I figured I got a good price on the set, and the Ebay description didn't mention the tuner, so I paid a little extra. Still a good price, since I don't know of any other surviving Tradiovisions.

[jeyurkon]

One certainly can't complain about the price for the set. It's great that the tuner was still there.

I assumethat since you got the tuner that you'll be restoring the set?

Is the screen still in good shape? I might have some frosted mylar if you need to replace it. I'll have to check and see if we still have any.

John

[Steve McVoy]

Here are photos of the set and some advertising material that came with it. More will be posted later:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/tradiovision.html

[Eric H]

Very interesting set, you can see it's history in the Nicotine goo that's all over the tuner unit, it must have been near the Bar area and exposed to a lot of smoke!

[newhallone]

I am unfamiliar with these type of sets....how does that projection unit work? What are we looking at? It's one awesome set!

[Phil Nelson]

Awesome. I love the testimonial letters. Dempsey's traded in their $2500 (!) DuMont to step up to a Tradiovision.

Is that a Lucite box around the HV section? Five 1B3 tubes giving you 27KV. Keep your rubber gloves on

Phil Nelson