New Acquisition Triage!..Or what I got at the ETF, WARCI and Dave's estate in a week. 

Yes and let's see how many of these LCD TVs work in 50 years! Lucky if you get 5 years out of them! Just keep in mind though in restoring these old TVs that you cannot receive over the air broadcasts on them anymore. You will need a digital RF converter box or send them NTSC video through an RF modulator. Any old beat up VCR can serve as a video/audio to RF modulator. (But still the VCR tuner wont work with digital TV.)

I'm pretty sure the Muntz is a 27"...It looks bigger than a 1970's 25V color CRT.

I think I may have run across two 27"'as a kid in the 1980's picking things up off the street. They were huge and ugly to me at the time. One was a Magnavox and the other Golden Throat so must have been an RCA. I have two 24 inch I think... Crosley and Setchel Carlson. I saved them because they are so uncommon. Museum TV expert said CRT's were bad. He's super qualified, but would throw too many things away. I keep too many. Happy medium and balance somewhere in between. Great stuff from Dave at 36 minutes. I really appreciate your attitude and knowledge. You seem like a great guy and I'm sure we'd be friends if we weren't a thousand miles away. Stay well and thanks for putting up the videos.

The basic procedure is dial the B&K 466 to "rejuvenate 1", wait until the needle has mostly settled, simultaneously push the rejuvenate button and as simultaneously as reflexes will allow whack the neck near the cathode of the gun you're trying to revive...The neck whack is recommended for remove shorts, but I've found it seems to make the odds of a successful rejuve less bleak. To be brutally honest I don't use rejuvenate 1 (let alone 2 or super-rejuvenate) on that tester (I forget when the last time was) unless a tube is so messed up that I consider it for all intents and purposes unusable junk before the rejuve (I usually favor prolonged normal testing at 1.4X rated heater voltage to pushing the button), and I tend to especially shy away from using it on color as it's pure luck (and that luck is mostly bad) if you can rejuve into good tracking. That tester rejuve button has blown the cathode emissive coating remnants off of and killed more tubes than it's saved (so it's a last ditch kill-or-cure measure)...Also the successes it's had tend to not last more than a few months. Through the magic of editing the over 15 min it sat at 8.4V with little emissions improvement shrunk to seconds of video....I basically saw enough to convince me the tube was toast and wasn't going to wake up and track on it's own, then took a dead tube and rolled the dice. I may try to flog some more life out of that tube but given the poor green even after rejuve and grayscale I suspect all I can expect out of it was that brief burst of life that allowed me to confirm the chassis was good.

Yeah, I live in Wisconsin.

@@tomcarlson3913 I have the same interests. Maybe we could meet someday and chat about restoring vintage TVs and such.

@@HD7100 Easiest place to find me is at the WARCI swapmeets. warci.org/

@@tomcarlson3913 It was just a thought. I only go to one or two swap meets a year and those are ham radio meets. I am also an amateur radio guy.

Possibly. I don't always comment, but I do watch and sometimes comment.