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Hi all, I just got an Osterizer Pulsematic 10 blender at a thrift store for $6.95, I am using it to replace our crappy less then 3 year old Cuisinart blender which has never worked good and now the motor is starting to make bad noises along with the smell of burning windings. Does anyone have...

Ah the CT-100. a tour de force in color receiver design. 45 tubes 450 watts of power consumed.... Now days when restoring one of these engineering marvels we can do better then RCA ever could have with parts tolerances, 3% and 1% tolerance film caps, 5 and 1% resistors and 20% electrolytics...

Here it is with the CRT removed and stored in a safe place so I can work on the set better. Will deal with the rust using Naval Jelly. Already have the capacitors ordered. 630V poly film for the paper caps and high temp axials for the electrolytics. Going to tackle the Bakelite the same way I...

Hi all, The other day i mad a trip to Cuyahoga Falls to pick up a GE model 800C TV. This is a black Bakelite cased TV that was dubbed the :locomotive" by TV collectors because of the fact that it kind of looks like a streamliner train. It looks to be in overall good condition, but of course...

A very nice combo! A great candidate for a full restoration! I hope that you have not plugged it in! Keep us posted on what happens with it. Matt

Here is the IIgs as it currently sits. Current configuration: 1.5 MB ram (AE RAM card) Apple FDHD (High Density) 3.5" drive Apple 800K 3.5" drive 2 Apple 140k 5.25" floppy drives Apple MIDI interface Apple SCSI card Apple 120 MB SCSI driver Apple CDROM-SC 1x caddy loading CDROM drive Apple...

My first computer was a TI-99/4A that we got for $25 at a block sale where my relatives lived in Breksville. I messed with it for a bit and we got a few carts, but never had anything for external storage. About a year or so later when i was in 4th grade we got an Apple IIgs. I have both of the...

Interesting AMC should be mentioned. an ad for an AMC Color TV set recently surfaced, if any of these sets where ever made let alone sold, it would rewrite american color TV history as we know it(for NTSC sets) because this set WOULD have been the first color set offered to the public. The...

Oh yes the Dumont Royal Sovereign. 30" and $2,000 of 1950 tech. This set has an amazing picture for the size and age of it. It is also a truly MASSIVE set! Matt

Ah yes the last Zeniths, they where a discrase to the name, as where the more recent RCA "ColorTrak" sets. The last good Zeniths where the "system 3" sets, the last good RCA's where the pre 1990 "ColorTrak 2000" sets. Sylvania/GTE was popular around here, but it was probably...

I never did say that RCA was best, in fact in a lot of ways other sets where better, the Dumonts where probably the best B&W sets, followed by Zenith, then Philco and RCA, Magnavox, Emerson, Motorola and of course the bottom would be Muntz. Color, Zenith,Sylvania,RCA,Philco,GE. Until the...

Sorry the reply is so late. The convention is held every year at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard Ohio(A Suburb of Columbus) Check it out. Oh there was a CT-100 there, in fact the set of pictures with the old color set apart, are of a rebuilt 15GP22 picture tune in a specially modified...

Yep it is huge, just for size comparison, I am 5'10" Matt

Hi all, I know it is a bit late as the convention was form april 23-25th. It was a great time, got to see old fronds and meet some new ones, talk about antique televisions, oh yes and see A LOT of them :) I even came home with a trunkload of stuff. Attached is a picture of me posing by the...

Yes VideoKarma has some great guys on there that have restored lots of early sets. Check out the Early Television Foundation's restoration site, they have restored pre WWII sets. http://www.earlytelevision.org/restoration.html I agree though, get a sams photofact for it and replace the caps on...