05-08-2012, 02:35 PM
A fellow collector in the Boston area saw my post wit the hacked off cable and contacted me. He had seen a craigslist post advertising for old radios and TVs and checked it out. It was mostly junk but he did have a nasty, moldy, filthy head unit with cable for this set.
The picture tube tested bad though so he left it behind. That was weeks ago, the listing had expired and he no longer had the guys phone #. Luckily, a websearch turned up a cached copy of the listed, we contacted him and he still had the unit
It's a bit of a drive for him so he contact yet another area collector closer to the seller. He kindly went over, held his nose and brought it back to collector #1. He then disassembled it and carefully packed and shipped the key bits to me. He held on to the picture tube too. It seems it has a cathode - heater short, but may be useable with a separate filament transformer.
So here it finally is.
[Image: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/69935...7c12_z.jpg]
And after a few hours of cleaning with orange "goop" hand cleaner.
It is somewhat flexible, but it's probably been coiled up for decades and wants to stay that way.
Now the real challenge will be mating it to my head unit.
[Image: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7071/71564...761c_z.jpg]
The picture tube tested bad though so he left it behind. That was weeks ago, the listing had expired and he no longer had the guys phone #. Luckily, a websearch turned up a cached copy of the listed, we contacted him and he still had the unit
It's a bit of a drive for him so he contact yet another area collector closer to the seller. He kindly went over, held his nose and brought it back to collector #1. He then disassembled it and carefully packed and shipped the key bits to me. He held on to the picture tube too. It seems it has a cathode - heater short, but may be useable with a separate filament transformer.
So here it finally is.
[Image: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7107/69935...7c12_z.jpg]
And after a few hours of cleaning with orange "goop" hand cleaner.
It is somewhat flexible, but it's probably been coiled up for decades and wants to stay that way.
Now the real challenge will be mating it to my head unit.
[Image: http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7071/71564...761c_z.jpg]
