Here it is, the cabinet is really beaten up but the tubes light and there is a lit image swirl on the corner of the screen when turned on.
So there is something alive in the kine-scope. He also said there is a scratchy sound when adjusting the volume, that sounds like some part of the audio amp is working?

Very nice! You don't see one of those very often. I'd love to see some pictures of the insides.

Kevin

Looks Cool! Pictures of the inside????

Cool, that will be a big fun project like my Philco 2500.
Don't forget the 25,000 volts running around inside though!

If you do forget can I have your sets?

It's yours You'll just have to pick off my charred remains...

Steve

Here are all the other pics I have of it.

Awesome score, Steve.

Hey Eric

I'm looking at the diagrams for it and it's more like 30,000 volts, It's going to be like a mouth to a flame! If the shock doesn't get me the radiation will.

Steve

Steve,

I will promise you that I will never put my mouth on a flame or 30KV either

Neat set, Steve. Once you go through the usual re-capping, you'll want to get the sperical mirror re-silvered. Also, there is no high voltage regulation in these sets, so if it blooms, you will probably want to acquire another 5TP4 or even better, 5AZP4, the sixties' version of that crt. Brightness is everything in these monsters. CRAIG

I finally drove out west on a business trip and picked up the TV. Here are some quick and dirty pictures. The Lacquer finish has had it and will require a strip down. The veneer is in good shape underneath and should restore nicely. The TV does work showing a twisted up display, so I know I have high Voltage. There was static on the volume control that was changing loudness as you turned it up, amp is working. I then turned it off quickly and was thankful for no arcs and sparks. The set is totally complete and once it's refinished and the chassis' is restored itshould be a great set!!









Some of the projection optics, deflection coil and picture tube, the picture tube test well into the good zone on my CRT tester!

This is one-cool-set! I carefully rinsed off the corrector lens that sits on top of the projection bell with a flowing water stream, it cleaned up nicely. The spherical main mirror and the flat mirror up at the top are hazed but still work well. My I-phone projected very nicely onto the view screen. It was a bit dim, not allot of light output from the I-phone. Very neat to see the image up on the screen, too dim to photograph, sorry.

The chassis' are thick with dust but everything is there and whole! There are many inter-connecting harnesses between the 4 chassis' this is going to be a monster to work on! I'm going to have to document every move, many connections to remember. This set is a technological terror The HV cable looks down right scary, it's very heavy duty. I am definitely getting a pair of thick rubber gloves for this set, 28,000 volts will knock you on your ass if your not careful!

The Cabinet is serial number 627. All of the chassis' serial Numbers are between 4000 to 5000.

Steve

Hello pielock373
wow what great set man I sure would like to find something like that very cool

Rich
P.S. what bonus that the set works too..

Steve,

The interconnecting cables are all keyed differently, so no chance of connecting things wrong. The worse chassis to work on is the HV unit, the rest are pretty much straightforward.

I've junked a few of these so have a pretty good supply of spare parts if you need anything, they are actually the most common projection set found.

Chuck

I will keep you in mind if I need something.

Steve

The spherical mirror cleaned up nicely! My other hobby is Astronomy so I am pretty good at cleaning first service mirrors without scratching them up. Looks real nice, that should brighten the picture up.

Chuck

Is there a way to disconnect the HV cable from one end or the other to free the HV chassis from the projection bell? The flyback looks to be in good shape. Look over to the right at those paper clips holding the caps



Steve

In one project I wrote up a checklist of every step needed to reinstall/reconnect the chassis. This was after two occasions when I forgot something, a different thing each time. No harm done, but I sure felt like a dolt.

It's a mnemonic device. After writing the list, I never needed to look at it.

Phil Nelson

Sort of works, It's a start, I'm sure I'll make it not work before I'm done. The biggest hurtle is going to be refinishing the cabinet. this is the largest piece of furniture I've ever stripped This will be fun, NOT!

Steve