What is this??

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by earlyfilm

Interesting! I keep thinking that a phono should go where the CRT is. Where does your friend's matching cabinet place the record player? I can assume that this set once had a phonograph, as why else would it have a record drawer?

One thing that makes me think this is a replacement TV chassis, is the right outside cabinet door is in two pieces. The left outside door in front of the TV chassis looks like it originally had been in two pieces and at some point someone joined them together to create a full door over the TV chassis.

The dual chassis 7 inch Tele-tone chassis would easily fit in the top half of that cabinet, with the Teletone power chassis with the speaker. This would leave room for a matching record storage area left of the speaker grill and that would balance the unit.

The TV chassis is an early Hallicrafters as it still has channel one, ie 14 buttons.

James

My friends set has a rather goofy configuration with the phono under the TV. It cuts the speaker grill in half, and you have to look at this rather unattractive phono drawer. I believe the left side areas are all record storage. The Tele-Tone chassis does fit perfect in the center panel, but I actually like the Hallicrafters porthole screen alone in the center with the pushbuttons to the left - and without the phono. Very primitive looking. It really looks pre-war!