1951 Leningrad T2

[orvars]

Hello!

Found this old TV when going through my grandpas old stuff.

is this tv worth anything?

havent tried if it works, last time my granpa used it were around 1950-60.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Welcome to the Forum. Pretty interesting set you have there. Definitely worth saving, but sort of hard to put a dollar value on it. Probably not to many of us here in the US have seen one before. So where is this set located?

[orvars]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

Welcome to the Forum. Pretty interesting set you have there. Definitely worth saving, but sort of hard to put a dollar value on it. Probably not to many of us here in the US have seen one before. So where is this set located?

Thx!

This is located in sweden.

I will ask my grandpa how he got it when i see him next time.

[Captainclock]

It looks Russian, or Eastern European (guessing by the fact that it uses Sanskrit writing on it and the fact that the brand is Leningrad which is a refrence to the capitol of Russia during the days of Vladmir Lenin (who was the one who was responsible for the Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty in Russia, that is also the city that is now known as St. Petersburg, Russia and was known as St. Petersburg prior to the Russian Revolution.) Other than that I've got nothing, an interesting piece for sure.

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by Captainclock

It looks Russian, or Eastern European (guessing by the fact that it uses Sanskrit writing

Do you mean Cyrillic writing?

That TV is definitely worth saving. Soviet-era Russian TVs are virtually never seen here in the USA. It would be quite a curiosity in this country, at least to TV collectors. In years of collecting, I have only found one Soviet Russian radio, brought here by a woman who was born in Sweden.

In another VideoKarma discussion, I just ran across a Russian website that includes a page about this TV model:

http://www.rw6ase.narod.ru/00/tw/leningrad_t2.html

In addition to the description and photos, there are links to the operating manual and a short (silent) video showing the TVs being assembled at the factory. I only read English, so I used Google to translate the web page.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by orvars

Hello!

havent tried if it works, last time my granpa used it were around 1950-60.

It will need to have many capacitors replaced before you can power it up. Some of the old caps may fail in a bad way that could cause other hard to obtain parts to be damaged.

[orvars]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

It will need to have many capacitors replaced before you can power it up. Some of the old caps may fail in a bad way that could cause other hard to obtain parts to be damaged.

i will prob not try to start it

and what i know, my grandpa only used it once to test it.