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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.