Working TV needed

[HoneySuckle]

Does anyone have a television set (colour and working) that they would like to donate?

I am helping someone who is now starting out in an apartment with a minimum wage pay check and the one thing I don't have is a spare TV set. I have already given a dining room set, single bed and a couch.

If you have one that is just sitting around collecting dust, let me know.  If you prefer to be paid, we can work something out.

[TeeDub]

Craigslist is your friend.

[HoneySuckle]

Thanks. Will try there.

[Conan71]

Sounds like you've done plenty already.

How was the trip to Europe?

[sauerkraut]

Heck, you can pick one up for about $5.00 at those donantion center stores. I believe there's one on 71st street & Aspen or around there. However The old TV's won't work much longer in about 6 months all analog broadcasting will be shut down and you'll need a converter box to turn the digital signal into analog. The boxes cost about $50.00 at Wal-Mart

[sauerkraut]

Speaking of TV's I have an old classic Zenith B&W TV set from 1969 in my basement. It has an all metal cabnet, and has a 21" screen and has a very clear B&W picture on it. I hate to use it much because the tubes in the set no longer can be found as far as I know. My parents bought it when I was a kid. They paid $160.00 for it in 1969. []

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

I hate to use it much because the tubes in the set no longer can be found as far as I know. []

Vacuum tubes (valves as Europeans call them) are still very available today.  NOS (new old stock) U.S. made tubes are still quite plentiful, although at ever increasing prices, depending upon the tube.  New Russian made tubes are quite good and reliable, and cheap, and sold throughout the U.S. via internet or local stores.

If the avaliability of tubes is your concern, that is no problem in 2008.  Tube amps and equipment are still the gold standard in many people's mind (myself included), and replacement tubes are still plentiful for radio, video, audiophile amps and and multitude of applications.

[HoneySuckle]

Conan, I have been thinking about posting a trip report but didn't know whether anyone would be interested.  How does one upload pics here?  I think I tried before and wasn't successful.

[sauerkraut]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

I hate to use it much because the tubes in the set no longer can be found as far as I know. []

Vacuum tubes (valves as Europeans call them) are still very available today.  NOS (new old stock) U.S. made tubes are still quite plentiful, although at ever increasing prices, depending upon the tube.  New Russian made tubes are quite good and reliable, and cheap, and sold throughout the U.S. via internet or local stores.

If the avaliability of tubes is your concern, that is no problem in 2008.  Tube amps and equipment are still the gold standard in many people's mind (myself included), and replacement tubes are still plentiful for radio, video, audiophile amps and and multitude of applications.

Thanks, I did not know that- do regular TV repair shops carry those vacuum tubes? Two of the tubes in my 1969 Zenith TV set are very expensive and they have been replaced about 20 years ago, one is called the "Damper" tube I forgot the number of it and the other is a large tube next to it I think it's the horz. high voltage tube. Some of the smaller tubes in the set are orgionals. The "Damper" tube costed around $20.00 twenty years ago when it was last replaced. I also have a old Mororola record player from 1958 that my parents bought that works fine and has 6 tubes in it, but I do have an extra tubes for that.[]

[sauerkraut]

I never planed to keep that 1969 Zenith  TV set 40 years, but it always worked fine and before I knew it the set was too old to throw out it became a keep sake, it could be something of intrest in a few more years- I doubt it will ever become a thing of value, old TV sets don't seem to have much value. In Hilliard, Ohio there's an old TV museum, it's one of the few in the country- I have been there once and they have an old mech. TV set from the 1920's or 1930's with a big spinning wheel full of holes and it makes a TV picture that way, latter on all TV's used electronic scanning. The cost of the Museum is a $2.00 donation, they have TV sets from the most early test models up to the late 1950's. Collecting old radios is a common hobby but collecting old TV sets is not common.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by HoneySuckle

Conan, I have been thinking about posting a trip report but didn't know whether anyone would be interested.  How does one upload pics here?  I think I tried before and wasn't successful.

I used Photobucket for my image hosting, no particular reason, a friend say try it and it does what I need it to.  TN does not host photos so you have to use a second party host.  (Not sure if that's the proper vernacular, but it sounded impressive LOL)

Once you upload photos, it will automatically create image tags you can cut and paste into your post on here.  You can type a line of caption, and pop a photo in, rinse & repeat.