15 inch Rectangular CRT that used a gun like a 21FJ

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Originally Posted by walterbeers

Has anyone else ever seen such an animal. Many, many years ago I worked on a Sears table model color that was a 15 inch? rectangular set that had a 70 degree CRT that used the large gun assembly similar to a roundie 21FJ/21FBP22. I believe it was Japanese made . . . . Wonder what model it was, who made it, and are there any still around today. I'd love to get a hold of one of those.

I owned one! Bought it new in 1965 to watch the space shots in color. It was a 16 inch and the first low priced set with a rectangular CRT and I hated the round color sets.

http://earlytelevision.org/21_inch_color.html#sears

It is the top two pictures in the 1960 year window.

All hand wired, except for the setup board. This was the most trouble free tube TV that I have ever owned! It was in daily use through the late 1970s and was a backup set through the late 1990s, but when I tested it in about 2002, the sync had grown unstable and I stoopidly thought money would be better invested in a new set and hauled it to the junk yard.

Jas.