1961 Green RCA Victor Tube Television
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Really pretty RCA Victor television set from 1961. I'd love to be able to keep this beauty but trying to downsize at the moment. I feel the portable designs really exploded in the late 1950s-1960s before complete transistor sets while keeping the Atomic style.
The color is everything, and it's more than enough!
My first TV during the 1960s was one like this. I was 12 years old and got it at the thrift store. It had a bad CRT. I Found a replacement at a local flea market. I don't know what it was removed from but I peddled two miles with it resting on the handle bars of my bike. It was like new. The TV got a beautiful picture. Today most kids have a color TV. 😂
Oh. My. Gad. Congratulations!
Nice tv set. I love portables. It looks so simple inside and before you decide get rid of it think: A technician's heart always has room for one more. Good acquisition. Congratulations and in your hands it will look perfect.
Thank you for the kind words! I do really like it but think I enjoy working on earlier sets, late 40s early 50s with easier to work on chassis. Also the deteriorating back will always bug me I’m sure. They’re only so many I can keep in my personal collection to keep making videos which I love doing.
Used to get a lot of these in. Never saw a green one. Most white, black & aqua.
Nice catch, I bet that CRT will wake up in a day or 2
LFOD !
Some friends took a similar TV set, pulled the guts out and cut the top open, so they could create a fish tank inside the CRT. Then they put the CRT back in the case, and created the coolest fish tank TV I've ever seen!
Hopefully it was broken.
Awesome television
Idea about those fragile plastic backs: If you can find someone in your area who does 3d scanning for-hire, and have them make you an STL file of it & then autocad in the broken off pieces, then anyone with a 3d printer could make you a replacement (they may have to split the print into 4 sections and then combine them but that is not difficult). A household 3d scanner isn't going to be up to the job.
I'm surprised how poor the quality of the US sets from that era, recently I acquired a Swedish Luxor 11 inch set which was made in early 60s, it look very similar to this one but the plastic on that set is like new, solid and shiny, and even the tube layout is really nice. I hand carried it all the way to the US and I'm glad I did.
I think with how many companies were producing televisions, there were higher end models and cheaper models produced. There were a lot of very well built sets during this era and cheaper alternatives for consumers.
These sets were very reliable. They worked very well and are great performers. This set is from 1958. We had the 21 inch table top version of this set. Rejuvenate the CRT I am sure it will wake up.
It certainly would, at the very least, be a temporary fix.
The CRT in this set probably needed some time to wake up, especially if it hadn't been in operation for decades. Some of the conductive material on the cathode has likely worn off due to use, causing the dim raster. I noticed the CRT yoke assembly seemed to be somewhat intact, which is becoming less and less common for sets of this vintage. It would be really cool if a new plastic back for the set could be 3-D printed.
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You could probably get it replicated.
Someone watched the moon landing with that TV.
That set was likely in use back in July of 1969.
If you need to touch up the case, the name of the paint is "tate green"... Nice TV set.
**SOYLENT GREEN!!**
Hey, I got some replacement parts for my radio and I opened up the filter can thing and there's this paper stuff in it...its waded up in there and I have no idea how to fix it. I'll send you a picture
Thanks