What is this??

[StellarTV]

Someone sent me pics of this TV today.... What is this thing? The TV channel selector reminds me of a pushbutton Hallicrafters. No name anywhere on the unit, except for the dial glass, which says Telfair Graeme - manufactured for G&E Loit. Looks like a 7JP4 and a late 40s era tube lineup.

No idea of operating condition. Any ideas?

[kramden66]

it looks like a hallicrafters chassis , een the knobs are the hallicrafters type, a 7jp4 too , go for it , certainly unique , the speaker is so much bigger then the picture.

[Phil Nelson]

Yes, it's a Franken-TV. Hallicrafters 505/T-54 TV chassis mounted sideways and using extended cables. The CRT is mounted on a piece of wood. The TV is combined with some other radio. Definitely not factory, although the audio may be better than stock with that big speaker.

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[Eric H]

I'm going to guess that it's someones home brewed project, the way the chassis are mounted doesn't look like a professional job, plus the spliced in wiring to the CRT socket and the lack of any lettering around the TV controls all say home made.

That's definitely a Hallicrafters TV chassis.

[Eric H]

The chassis in the bottom of the cabinet doesn't seem to be hooked up to anything, I suspect it was the power supply chassis for whatever was originally in the cabinet.

[init4fun]

One of the better looking frankensets I've seen . Weird how that unhooked bottom chassis looks to have a cord wrapped around it , leading me to wonder if it's even bolted in there , or was just thrown in there cause "It looks like more TV parts , maybe it goes with this here old TV we found" (presumably the folks selling this don't have a clue about old TVs , it looks like a yard sale may be going on in some of the pictures)

[hi_volt]

Actually, I think it's pretty cool looking. I like the small screen centered in the middle of the big cabinet. It gives it a "pre-war" look.

[decojoe67]

Be aware of this: A friend has that exact cabinet with an genuine factory "Philharmonic" TV/radio/phono. installed. It's entirely original and does not appear to be a "franken-set". It uses a 7" Tele-tone chassis. This set in question could have had alterations, but it very likely was a genuine "orphan" budget combination TV console in it's day with chassis used from different sources. Very cool piece that would be worth restoring in the configuration it is.

[earlyfilm]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

Be aware of this: A friend has that exact cabinet with an genuine factory "Philharmonic" TV/radio/phono. installed. It's entirely original and does not appear to be a "franken-set". It uses a 7" Tele-tone chassis.

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

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Eric H

The chassis in the bottom of the cabinet doesn't seem to be hooked up to anything, I suspect it was the power supply chassis for whatever was originally in the cabinet.

I agree. There is a socket on the back of the power supply chassis into which a mating multipin connector, at the end of a multiconductor cable, would be inserted, with an AC outlet next to that socket. This could have been a power chassis for an amplifier or a radio tuner; hard to tell just by looking at the thing. The entire setup indeed looks like a cobbled-together TV-radio combo, with the aforementioned power supply just left in the bottom of the cabinet for no particular reason.

[jr_tech]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I agree. There is a socket on the back of the power supply chassis into which a mating multipin connector, at the end of a multiconductor cable, would be inserted, with an AC outlet next to that socket. This could have been a power chassis for an amplifier or a radio tuner; hard to tell just by looking at the thing. The entire setup indeed looks like a cobbled-together TV-radio combo, with the aforementioned power supply just left in the bottom of the cabinet for no particular reason.

Another possibility: There *is* a similar sized Jones multipin plug on the radio chassis connected to a drooping wire... perhaps the other end of the wire should be plugged into the bottom chassis? I don't see an obvious AC power cord attached to the radio chassis. The AC outlet on the bottom chassis would seem to be in a good location for supplying power to the TV...note the TV cord unplugged, just a few inches away. My guess is that the bottom chassis *is* a part of the combo, but has been unplugged (perhaps for testing?) and is now "loose" in the bottom of the set. Just a WAG, however.

jr

[WISCOJIM]

German radio? Loit is north of Hamburg, near the border with Denmark.

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[TV'S&MORE]

This looks like a philharmonic cabinet to me too. Like many other companys in those days they used chassis made by other companys. HALLICRAFTERS, SENTINEL and TELE-TONE were the common ones.

[Electronic M]

I have an IIRC Jensen speaker that looks identical to the one in that set.

[EdKozk2]

I think the set looks cool and would be fun to get working again.