Best Craigs list find yet

Answered an add for a tv today on cl. When I get there lady says its in basement. Go downstairs and it a 1950's RCA VICTOR. looked in back and all tubes are still on boards. Women says it was their when her mom bought house in 1969 and they never turned it on. She also gave me two 1970's turntables,a bed frame, an old steel oven and a dehumidifier. She said some woman called an hour before I did but never showed so...finders keepers :) will post pictures in a bit. Hoping it still starts. Hope all had a good day too.

Say dude great find!

I would not be so hasty to just plug it in .

It may have conductive dust and other debris laying inside.

Best to blow it out first but use caution with static charge.

Could be a great find!

Glad your back joe thanks for info. Lots of dust in the back. Sould I blow it out with compressor or use a vacuum for the heavy dust?

there is goingto be a young man from down under interested in your tv, i would also like to see pics nice find

Had same thought he's usually on around 3 a.m est

Trying to figure out photobucket now. May be awhile wife is out and I hate doing anything with pics on computer. I take 'em after that it's up to her..lol

Cory you make a good point! That boy wants all our Tv sets.

I use my compressor to blow out stuff like this but be sure you have a wire hooked to the nozzle that is connected to a ground to discharge any static buildup.

It is also advised you ground the chassis of the equipment you are cleaning to be sure of all static discharge.

I've messed around with a lot of old tube radios, and Injunjoe is spot on with grounding the chassis and your compressor nozzle when blowing it out. Also, if it hasn't been powered up for 40+ years you probably want to hook the power through a variable transformer or rheostat, a dimmer switch will work, and bring the voltage up slowly. I let the smoke out of some really nice old radio boards before an old-timer filled me in on that. Good luck!

Lots of discussions on the ham forums about bringing the tubes up slowly as DWJ indicated. The slow build allows the old tubes slowly heat up and this "reconditions" the old tubes. Mike.

well i can't figure out how to embed the **** pics, getting late and i have to be in manhattan by 0730. Thanks for all the great replies and tips. If I can figure out how to get pics up i will, sorry admin but prob going to just post to an outside link tomorrow. I am too cranky to be typing in all that url crap with these sausage fingers.

brass , i open up two windows and leave one on smf and the other on photobucket, click on the photo you want, on the right side of the screen there is a column to choose from, the bottom one is embed, just do a left click on it and it copies automatically, then when you goto smf do a right click and paste. this should work

I was having quite a time finding the right way to post pics. This is the appropriate thread:

http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/showt...he-forum-Video

KZBell reminded me to use the "direct link" URL under the photo, not the URL at the top of the page if you are looking at the picture on your computer.

Yeah but can I just take photos from my desktop somehow? Seems like this is the only site I have trouble posting pics to.

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

Yeah but can I just take photos from my desktop somehow? Seems like this is the only site I have trouble posting pics to.

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Any pic displayed on this forum needs to be from a host such as PhotoBucket...not sure why, probably frees up some space or memory I'm guessing.

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Originally Posted by BurlyGuys

Yeah but can I just take photos from my desktop somehow? Seems like this is the only site I have trouble posting pics to.

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I uploaded directly from my computer one time but I had to make the pic a whole lot smaller, but you do not have to with Photobucket or one of the other pic hosting sites.

photo.jpg picture by Brasscatcher1 - Photobucket
Testing out how to post pics...sorry ...think I got it now