I think that radio with the remote was my favorite thing at the museum. It is amazing that they had something like that way back when. Robert, I believe that a full week off with total rest including breakfast in bed everyday is in order.
Some unnamed person made me buy this today...
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Figures you'd find something AFTER I left....
Congrats on the awesome TV!!!
Congrats on the awesome TV!!!
Never Seen Anything Like It Before!
I'm shocked - no pun intended lol. Normally I have to spend months painstakingly replacing capacitors and resistors to restore a vintage tv set. This one works amazingly well, almost brand new. After it warmed up a few minutes and the electrolytics had a chance to reform it works like its brand new. The only thing that really needed adjustment besides the usual horizontal and veritcal holds was the vertical height...
I'm shocked - no pun intended lol. Normally I have to spend months painstakingly replacing capacitors and resistors to restore a vintage tv set. This one works amazingly well, almost brand new. After it warmed up a few minutes and the electrolytics had a chance to reform it works like its brand new. The only thing that really needed adjustment besides the usual horizontal and veritcal holds was the vertical height...
The space command works without any power. Each button makes a different high pitch sound that is picked up by the tv set to either mute/unmute the sound or to advance the channel knob.
danemodsandy
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Robert:
You may not have needed to work on the electronics, but you sure as heck put in some effort on cleaning and polishing that finish! The difference between the first picture and that one is amazing.
Now I know where the arms came from, LOL.
You may not have needed to work on the electronics, but you sure as heck put in some effort on cleaning and polishing that finish! The difference between the first picture and that one is amazing.
Now I know where the arms came from, LOL.
Robert, it's beautiful! Love it! Do you think that perhaps someone had maintained this set and used it for all these years? Perhaps the set was recapped and so forth over the years? Very amazing that it is in "plug in and watch" condition.
"Do you think that perhaps someone had maintained this
I don't know Rick, I took off the back to dust off the tubes and everything looks original. I suspect it just wasn't used hardly at all. Maybe she liked to read lol.
I don't know Rick, I took off the back to dust off the tubes and everything looks original. I suspect it just wasn't used hardly at all. Maybe she liked to read lol.
lol!! I do not watch much tv either, so I can relate.
My partner has put more "miles" on my Magnavox console in the two months he has been back, than I put on it the entire 2 1/2 years he was gone...
At any rate, that is a great save, Robert and Fred! Congratulations
My partner has put more "miles" on my Magnavox console in the two months he has been back, than I put on it the entire 2 1/2 years he was gone...
At any rate, that is a great save, Robert and Fred! Congratulations
Very, very nice Robert. The set looks to be in fab condition. Now you'll kick the rest of the televisions to the curb - you've got Space Command!
Ben
Ben
Wow!!
Gorgeous! I love the "please, Mom, can we keep it?" pose in the original pic. Only, with our group, it's never a kitten or a puppy.
Gorgeous! I love the "please, Mom, can we keep it?" pose in the original pic. Only, with our group, it's never a kitten or a puppy.
crevicetool
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Great......
Now the Mister Ed theme song will be in my head all day long.
Thanks a lot Robert.
Rick
Now the Mister Ed theme song will be in my head all day long.
Thanks a lot Robert.
Rick
douglasdc6
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Oh My God, Mr. Ed
Wonderful show !!!! My favorite will always be the pilot episode.
Wonderful show !!!! My favorite will always be the pilot episode.
wringer_clean
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Love Vintage Electronics!!
Hey Robert,
Great find ... I absolutely love vintage (tube-based) electronics ... for me it's primarily radios and record players.
(Love the "pretty please" shot!)
Robert, you almost look angelic, isn't that a hoot!!
Space Command remotes are great fun.
Back in the day, when the dog walked in front of the set and shook his collar, his tags would change either the volume or channel.
You might want to take a chain of some sort and shake it in front of the set and see if anything happens.
Whatever ....
Enjoy your new find!!!
BTW, great talking with you and Fred the other night.
Pat
Hey Robert,
Great find ... I absolutely love vintage (tube-based) electronics ... for me it's primarily radios and record players.
(Love the "pretty please" shot!)
Robert, you almost look angelic, isn't that a hoot!!
Space Command remotes are great fun.
Back in the day, when the dog walked in front of the set and shook his collar, his tags would change either the volume or channel.
You might want to take a chain of some sort and shake it in front of the set and see if anything happens.
Whatever ....
Enjoy your new find!!!
BTW, great talking with you and Fred the other night.
Pat
Robert, nice find. I hope it knows how lucky it is to be in your home.
Quick question, does your channel knob have a light behind it that displays the channel number? My aunt had a very similar set and I seem to recall turning the knob and seeing the VHF channel number appear in the white section of the knob.
Quick question, does your channel knob have a light behind it that displays the channel number? My aunt had a very similar set and I seem to recall turning the knob and seeing the VHF channel number appear in the white section of the knob.
"Quick question, does your channel knob have a light behind it that displays the channel number? "
Yes!!Keep it!! Use those powerful arms to lift it into your truck!Quick before the doner changes their mind!!Wonderful find.So glad it works.Any set of that vintage I have seen is in pretty sad shape-most the cabinet was coming apart from storage in a shed or unheated-cooled garage.
A freind of mine years ago used one of those "Space Command" remotes to train his dog-the dog loved it.You could use the remote to make the dog come to you-go away from you or even bark depending on wich key you pushed on the remote.Was kinda amazing-Was a poodle.The dog liked the ulrasonic tones emitted by the remote.Yes I have seen the "space command" sets react to jingling keys or coins or even from walking across the floor in the room the set was in.Loved the solid "thunk" from those Zenith tuners-My Mom used to have a Zenith metal cabinet table model set-"bucket models" as some called them.The machine gave such a nice pix-even years later after us kids grew up.My Mom still had the thing-loved watching "Perry Mason" and "Outer Limits" on it after the folks went to bed-I could have watched those on the newer RCA color set-but liked that old Zenith better for the older shows.Miss that machine.Don't remember what my Mom did with it-one summer when I went to her house it was gone-only the RCA set was there.And yes that TV had the channel display in the center of the knob-never had to work on that!Only thing I had to do with the set was clean the tuner and the volume-tone controls.Never had to replace any of the tubes in it-when I opened the set up to fix the tuner it had ALL of the orig Zenith tubes in the chassis-and a like a Zenith a power transformer type set-no sereies filament system in there!Sereies fil strings can be hard on tubes.
A freind of mine years ago used one of those "Space Command" remotes to train his dog-the dog loved it.You could use the remote to make the dog come to you-go away from you or even bark depending on wich key you pushed on the remote.Was kinda amazing-Was a poodle.The dog liked the ulrasonic tones emitted by the remote.Yes I have seen the "space command" sets react to jingling keys or coins or even from walking across the floor in the room the set was in.Loved the solid "thunk" from those Zenith tuners-My Mom used to have a Zenith metal cabinet table model set-"bucket models" as some called them.The machine gave such a nice pix-even years later after us kids grew up.My Mom still had the thing-loved watching "Perry Mason" and "Outer Limits" on it after the folks went to bed-I could have watched those on the newer RCA color set-but liked that old Zenith better for the older shows.Miss that machine.Don't remember what my Mom did with it-one summer when I went to her house it was gone-only the RCA set was there.And yes that TV had the channel display in the center of the knob-never had to work on that!Only thing I had to do with the set was clean the tuner and the volume-tone controls.Never had to replace any of the tubes in it-when I opened the set up to fix the tuner it had ALL of the orig Zenith tubes in the chassis-and a like a Zenith a power transformer type set-no sereies filament system in there!Sereies fil strings can be hard on tubes.
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Now all you need is a tacky TV lamp to go on top!
I've got the 'Siamese Cats' one.
~Tim
I've got the 'Siamese Cats' one.
~Tim
"tacky TV light"nowadays they are called "bias lights"used to provide a min amount of light behind the set for "biasing" your eyes.Bias lights today are typically small flouresecent lamps you put BEHIND your flatscreen TV.The glow prevents your pupils from contracting too much ruining the contrast of the pix so say the home theater types.Those old "tacky" TV lamps did the same sort of thing-I remember one we had that used an Abalone shell as a "reflector"the light was reflected on the wall behind the TV the lamp was placed on.Need one of those "abalone" lamps for my home theater-I could put it atop my RPTV on top of the center channel speaker!Something to put up there besides DVDs and the "trinckets" that come in DVD packages--IE a min "Speed Racer" car.Oh yes--thought the Abalone shell or even the Siamese cat light would look better than the flourscent "stick" fixtures sold today for that type of use.
