OT: vintage TV

Jon Pruente jdpruente at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 00:44:19 CDT 2005


For those intrerested, I picked it up, reattached in internal antenna
and twiddled the knobs quite a bit.  Got a pic to show the result:
http://www.geocities.com/k_m34/images/DCP_2010.JPG It's a 300K-ish
JPEG shot with an old 1MP Kodak.  I took more photos of the TV itself,
but that's got the clearest shot of the screen functioning so far. 
Almost 50 year old tube circuits not powered in 20 years?  Not too
shabby. :)

On Mar 9, 2005 11:55 PM, crash 3m <crash3m at gmail.com> wrote:
> I ran acrossed a Zenith TV from 1958, model c2358W chassis 18c20.  I
> havent tested it but the unit itself looks to be in good condition
> (there is a dark stain on the top, and the knobs are worn.)  It was
> said to be working the last time it was plugged in (over 20 years
> ago.)  I was going to dump it, but thought I would see if there are
> any collectors of vintage electronics that might want to take it off
> my hands.   I am located in Lee's Summit.  If there are any takers
> please email me back off list a.s.a.p.    First response takes it.


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