1948 Motorola VT-70A TV for sale locally on Facebook Marketplace

[vortalexfan]

Hello everyone I was browsing through Facebook Marketplace this evening and someone on there just posted a 1948 Motorola VT-71M-A TV for sale on there for $125 and I was wondering if I should try to get it or if someone else here would like to try and pick it up?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...7594285292718/

the link above should direct you to the Fackebook Marketplace Posting of the TV in question.

EDIT: Please Disregard the model number in the thread's title, its wrong, I accidentally put the wrong model number in and I don't know how to fix it, the correct model number is whithin the thread itself.

[kvflyer]

They are nice sets when restored. Very straight forward. You can get a reproduction rubber face mask from this guy:

http://www.renovatedradios.com/productlist.php

Sweep coupling capacitors can be purchased from:

https://www.justradios.com/

Don't use disc capacitors to couple the sweep to the deflection plates in the CRT. They don't work as well.

Of course, if the CRT, 7JP4 is a dud, that can be a problem!

Please, keep us informed.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by kvflyer

They are nice sets when restored. Very straight forward. You can get a reproduction rubber face mask from this guy:

http://www.renovatedradios.com/productlist.php

Sweep coupling capacitors can be purchased from:

https://www.justradios.com/

Don't use disc capacitors to couple the sweep to the deflection plates in the CRT. They don't work as well.

Of course, if the CRT, 7JP4 is a dud, that can be a problem!

Please, keep us informed.

Ok, thanks, I'll see what I can come up with. The current owner in his listing mentioned that he attempted to power it up but didn't get anything on the screen, hopefully he didn't ruin anything by attempting to power it up like he did.

I'm guessing this Motorola isn't as rare as the Meck I'm currently working on.

What would be a good price to offer the guy for the TV?

[Electronic M]

If the CRT is unknown condition don't offer more than $50...a good new CRT would be as much as the asking price if not more, and ther are fewer valuable parts in the set to part out than many other sets.

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

If the CRT is unknown condition don't offer more than $50...a good new CRT would be as much as the asking price if not more, and ther are fewer valuable parts in the set to part out than many other sets.

Ok, thanks.