There's literally no reason this was recommended to me based on what I watch but this is so dope; thank you for posting this and thank you UA-cam algorithm for the miracle recommendation.
So, I live only a couple of miles south of the location of that radio and TV service company on the sticker. That address is a vacant lot that has been abandoned for *at least* 30 years. That's so cool to see an advertisement for a business that no longer exists.
The "I don't know where to go from here." comment had me cracking up. I collect guitars and amps and once I acquired my "holy grails", I knew nothing else would be as exciting. Welcome to the collecting world, brother.
I always aim for the grail and discard the rest then move onto another passion and just remember that when you die it’s all just stuff to your kids so leave them quality not quantity.
Exactly right. Once I got it home, I did feel lost in what to look forward to going forward. I’m just going to focus on the sets I love and want to keep and part with the others. Quality over quantity!
If I were a collector like you, I would relax easy knowing I found the holy Grail. This truly is an amazing set. I'm really shocked. No one else made anymore like this. This is really cool to look at even when it's off
Exactly, the Nordmende 5792x was the original TV chassis for this console, making it a '58 model. The record player is a Telefunken TW562 and the radio is a 5713x also by Nordmende. Good buy you made there. I hope you can get it fully functional again.
And to further clear things up: the brown patches left and right on the middle section are hiding the holes for the six TV turning knobs. All the above was added later on. It is easy to get the original parts for the Komet since Kuba used them in almost every cabinet that year. It's just the question if it makes sense to convert it back to original..
A full rehab would be a huge job. Like an antique car, you probably have to strip it all the way down into hundreds of parts and then build back up with the 'correct' parts and electronics, if original parts are available. Researching the 'know how' will be a big job, as well. But yeah, the whole thing will have to be taken apart, like the technicians who repair pendulum clocks. Got to know exactly what you're doing.
It's a very famous design piece and a miracle you found it in the wild and in the USA. The television conversion is very logical since the standards were very different in Europe. I'd call this an original conversion since it's very neatly done and leave it like this, it's part of the history of this item.
Yes the TV company on the back was likely paid big money by the customer to retrofit a US standards tube and TV tuner inside that unit, and they did it with care and dedication and professionalism. It makes this one 1 of 1. There are no others with period US market conversions.
Solid maple and African wenge ( wen gay) wood. Wenge was expensive then and rare now. Don't know how many forests are left in existence today. Not surprised that the television was modified to work in the United States. One of the most unusual pieces of vintage electronics I have ever seen!
@@gav1nbeyond Can't find any accurate sources to quote actual number of Wenge trees as if they don't want to tell anyone how many stands of trees of them are left in the six countries it is found in Africa.
@hestheMaster quite rare but I believe you can still purchase "sustainably" harvested wood it's not cheap thou due to it high demand and low numbers as you said,
I have a Fisher stereo from 1964. A few years ago, when I was cleaning it out, a stink bug managed to fall inside the dial and get stuck in there. I tried everything I could think of to get it out, but there wasn't anything I could do to get it out, without breaking the dial because it's such a tight space, between the dial cover and the number plate. I thought it was dead and I was going to have to have someone take the stereo apart. I forgot about it for a year. The thing stayed in there, the whole time. Then I slid the case off, when I had to move the stereo, and wouldn't you know it, the damned thing actually managed to work its way out. It was still alive!
I am always plagued by stinkbugs, they hibernate in cold weather indoors. I hate them. You have to remove the entire chassis to get access to the dial glass from inside.
@@MrWolfSnack Yeah, I thought that's what was going to have to be done to get it out. I was shocked that the thing actually managed to squeeze out of there AND that it was still alive? I mean the gap had to be only a few millimeters!
Your TV is a piece of Pop Art that many a museum would appreciate. Once you have physically restored it, I suggest that the way to display it is with some period art from the early sixties on the wall and a period pole light to one side and a patterned rug just in front. That TV is something you would expect to see in the bachelor pad of some entitled swinger. It is quite a find.
This is so beautiful. Like, they knew the screen could only be a certain size so they surrounded it with some outrageous period-appropriate artwork! Brillian! As someone who had a big wood TV with a tiny screen in it growing up I get the vibe.
I owned a Kuba Console. The turntable and receiver were both on the left side. 2 sliding doors with handles on the left and right. It had like 10 speakers, 4 across the bottom front behind beige colored cloth, on either end on the sides of the cabinet, speakers underneath pointing downwards in the strangest places. It's been such a long time that I can't honestly remember how they were configured or even how many there really were. It might have been 8 speakers, woofers, and tweeters, full range, I'm just not sure. The record changer was like a mini changer and had a similar action like Magnavox used, I think they were called Collaro, where the tone arm would lift up and would tap the edge of the record to sense the size to set the needle down in the correct place. The spindle for 33s and 78s was of the umbrella type. The cabinet was dark and laquered. It was glossy like a piano finish but more like a walnut brown in color. The previous owner must've had something sitting on top of it because it was sagging in the center. It looked very similar to other European consoles. It was approximately 4 feet long, maybe 3 feet tall, 1 foot wide at the top but getting slightly larger as it sloped down. On the other side of the cabinet was a 45 record rack and the 45 spindle. I've heard a number of consoles in my lifetime but never anything quite like my Kuba. For as old as it must've been ( I knew it was late 50s, early 60s and still don't know much more about it). The sound quality was simply incredible. Congratulations, and thanks for sharing. It's extraordinary!
The wood is sagging due to a combination of humidity exposure (unoccupied house with no heating or cooling) and also its own weight on the weakened wood fibers. I have a 1980's Mitsubishi particle board TV and the bottom panel is also sagging under the weight of the chassis. It was in my garage for several years and then I put it in my basement. Need to rig up a little bit of wood bracing to glue in there to help strengthen it back up again.
I’m in Australia and never seen anything like this! This is super retro and I love it. I would have it on display as a centre piece I reckon. Awesome find.
Congrats on finding your holy grail! What a wild piece of furniture. It’s the most MCM piece of MCM furniture I have ever seen. I’m new to your channel, so looking forward to your journey. I hope to hear more about how you found it.
I'm an antique radio guy. Been restoring since I was 7. Love this TV set! Not my world, but still appreciate it. Looking forward to following the project!
What a neat tv record player radio combo....I love the design, so unique and quite a statement piece...I'd never heard of them. It is like a work of art.
Didn't know that something like that even existed ! That's a wonderfull piece of art, for sure... Glad that guys like you keep them alive....Thank you, Sir !
That is coolest looking tv I've ever seen! I wish stuff like this were still made today. I'm blown away by all that equipment inside, all those tubes and wires and bolts. A lot of engineering went into making this. Far cry from modern tvs that are mostly just circuit boards and microchips. I wish you luck on the restoration! Great video!
Its an early example of the KUBA 1957-1958 due to the Nordmende TV chassis (Mende 5792X) with the old 90 degree tube version AW53-80. Curious if that tube is still in place. Radio chassis is in fact the Nordmende Fidelio 58 3D with indeed Schallkompressor, so your horns underneath could be original , just placed other type as original used in that radio. Recordplayer is the Telefunken TW562 , Often used in German combination sets. Overal great condition and a great find. Its a pure design out of the late 1950's as entering the modern space age. Have fun with it, and take good care of this master class design unit. Yrs ago I repaired the one Kuba bit newer out of 1964. As Germany is app next door.
I knew about this back in 2006 when I was 14 and into old tech I came across it in Google. Always wanted one. Never knew it was not something from the USA.
That is the coolest television radio grammo console I've ever seen. I had a few in my collections but not even close to this well designed and cool. This looks cool even by todays standard, and those flatscreens we have today can't even compete with that coolness in design. It's just so pretty, it's actually an art-piece. Awesome find.
Incredible, they definitely took mid-century modern ideals and wrapped it in space age futuristic design with that set. From a time when a TV/HiFi system was to be as much of a piece of fine furniture as it was a entertainment tool.
i love how you stay mono-tone while saying" unbelievably excited" hahaha so great, i can definitely relate! congrats on the acquisition! such a lucky find, good deal!
Not sure why I’m seeing this video but wow! This is thrilling! I restore vintage sewing machines so I totally feel your excitement (and anxiety over the turning on of the radio! “Please don’t clean or touch anything, I will do it” (I have said that many times!). The wiring looks very challenging and fragile. Absolutely stunning design; I have never seen anything like it. I’m sure you’re on your way through the process so I’m excited to follow up. Congratulations! I’m curious how much you have, and will, invest in this endeavor. I understand the feeling of ‘money is no object’ when it comes to a passion project such as this.
Beautiful find! Nothing like getting one of the last remaining from an already small number produced. I have a 58 Mercury Voyager wagon, a car but a similar situstion withhardly any left and incredibly few made in the first place. Congrats on your holy grail.
You could design a living room around this absolutely stunning piece of art. There's just nothing like it. Please treat it like the future heirloom it is.
The US TV is from the late 50's early 60's and what was a more compact portable set of the time. Be glad it wasn't fitted with a Predicta chassis and CRT! Absolutely amazing find, that set is beautiful, and the mods are not hard to deal with. As for the style, way out there for 20th century modern, clear into Googie or maybe wilder. I love that thing and can't believe one was even in this country. Congratulations on this amazing piece of TV history, I am completely blown away.
My dad used to have an old 37” tube TV , I think it was an RCA, that weighed over 150 lbs and had a radio built in on one side and a turntable on the top of the other side with magnetic push close/open doors to conceal them to make the top flat when they weren’t being used
Very interesting, I believe that huge transformer is to step up the voltage to the European 220 VAC. Plus the retrofit was needed to work in the states due to the PAL/NTSC differences....plus the 50 cycle differences. I wouldn't even think to turn it on before replacing all the capacitors. That said, it's an amazing find.
That's definitely why the transformer is there but it's also perplexing. The radio chassis clearly has taps for 110 and 125v, why didn't they just do that?
This is the sort of thing you really only expect to see in a museum. Wild to think that any folks have these just hanging out in their house. Damn it is beautiful. Fantastic video, thank you so much for posting!
I have a friend who has been doing repairs since the 1950s... he absolutely refuses to do anything other that just plug things in, and see what happens. Any caps that get warm get replaced. He insists that they will either work, or if you baby them, they'll just fail later, and it's best to get it out of the way. I used to freak out at anything more than 12 volts... but now I just watch when smoke does escape, to see where it's coming from. Often that isn't even the end for the part in question, and repairs can still be made.
That is so cool. We need people like yourself, to keep these treasures around. We had TV cabinet deal, with speakers and a turntable in a drawer. Mid-60’s probably.
I bought mine about 8 years ago and I'll never give it up. Perfect condition, all original and purchased from a friend of a friend of a friend whose grandparents from West Germany left it to them. They sold it me for $1,200. I drove 6 hours each way to get it and it was SO worth it, man. I've always been tempted to upgrade the monitor in it, but I just can't bring myself to alter anything. It's a 1959, I think, although I've never been able to be sure.
Mods were done in my home state of WA. Looks like a barber shop occupies that location now. Was hoping to see the business somehow survived. Would have been cool to see that they were still around, maybe specializing in vintage technology or maybe went through a bunch of iterations and now they make micro Thorium Reactors or something but, no dice.
I just played a short little game called IndependANT and it had this exact TV! I did not expect to get a video of the real thing in my recommended. It’s freaking awesome!
This looks like if Hannah-Barbera made a TV
My thought.
With the innards of a "Radiation King" TV from the Simpsons!
Lolz, my partner talked about a Jetsons tv.
We need people like you on our marketing team.
The Jetsons!
There's literally no reason this was recommended to me based on what I watch but this is so dope; thank you for posting this and thank you UA-cam algorithm for the miracle recommendation.
Same but watching like it's man on the moon 👀
Me too. Now I want one.
Same here! I love this.
same
So true - at first I thought 'another US citizen that bought some East German gem for his collection'.
The first thing I would do is watch "The Jetsons" on that thing.
😅
YES!
You betcha! 😅😂👍✌️👋
You win for Top Comment... classic!
I think I saw one of these on The Jetsons.
You need to build a mid century style house around it… that’s where you go with it
Agree 👍
Build on in Palm Springs alot of renters.
Buy the house where The Brady Bunch was filmed.
@@evanredmon3877 perfect
Agree
I’m obsessed with the mysterious silly sound that occurs at 01:31
Same
x2 we need answers OP
don’t answer op
It was the black cat that walked by, you can see its tail right before the sound, I have a cat that makes the same gurgle meow sound lol.
@@jordyandrews Yes we need the mystery!
People can say what they want about Mid Centry Modern furniture, but man there were some bold designs during that era!
I love Mid Centry Modern/Atomic Age design.
@@CHARLES-p3o This one's a beauty.
It's timeless in my opinion.
I love that midcentury modern influence is coming back to a degree, but it'll never reach this level of _cool_
It still looks kinda futuristic to me.
*Absolutely **_stunning_** condition after over **_60-years._** What an incredible treasure.* 😳
They made them from 1957 to 1962, and there’s a company that has sprung up to reproduce them today…
@@twoblacklabs904 Yes, vid notes the original years of manufacture. But it's good knowing they've been resurrected as well. 👍
It is! I'm not mechanically minded but I'm fascinated.
Ugly garbage
The Cat talking at a minute and a half in is amazing
I had to rewind to check the gargle noise wasn't me having a psychotic moment.
Me as well
I thought it was the cat.
I thought it was a ghost of Kuba Komets past
Sounds like an alien trying to learn how to speak like a human...
"yablghahfhhaghhgahle... up your-"
You're alright! Just don't gargle back!!
So, I live only a couple of miles south of the location of that radio and TV service company on the sticker. That address is a vacant lot that has been abandoned for *at least* 30 years. That's so cool to see an advertisement for a business that no longer exists.
The "I don't know where to go from here." comment had me cracking up. I collect guitars and amps and once I acquired my "holy grails", I knew nothing else would be as exciting. Welcome to the collecting world, brother.
I collect pocket knives and old army knives. Same here. It's a weird feeling knowing you'll never feel the same way about any other piece.
@@jordanliszewski6549 same just bought and restored one of my fav knifes i always wanted now its sitting on the shelf next to me
Cripes! Ive got knives, guitars and amps too! And magazines. And tools. And valves. And...well you get it. 😊😊😊😊
I always aim for the grail and discard the rest then move onto another passion and just remember that when you die it’s all just stuff to your kids so leave them quality not quantity.
Exactly right. Once I got it home, I did feel lost in what to look forward to going forward. I’m just going to focus on the sets I love and want to keep and part with the others. Quality over quantity!
I photographed one of these in 2007 in Frankfurt so I recognized it right away. The fact you found this in the wild is insane!!!
I saw one at the Berlin
Deutsches Technikmuseum in 2021 maybe there's several
I live in Indiana. Not surprising to me he found it here. There are some amazing finds to be found here. We kind of live in the past a bit here. 😅
Did he say how much it cost?
Thats the very Epitome of a Jetsons style piece of furniture. This is AWESOME
The first thought was the Jetsons!
Animators of the Jetsons, may have copied this
Its so distinctive you have to change all the decor in your house to match it. Fantastically ridiculous. I love it.
Back when a console TV was a massive piece of furniture. Awesome piece
If I were a collector like you, I would relax easy knowing I found the holy Grail. This truly is an amazing set. I'm really shocked. No one else made anymore like this. This is really cool to look at even when it's off
My dad would have loved this. He trained as a radii/tv repairman on the GI Bill in the early 50s. He could fix anything that had tubes. ❤
@@Nope-r4y 😂😂😂😂
OMG... I've been looking for one of these for over 35 years. Good for you!
Exactly, the Nordmende 5792x was the original TV chassis for this console, making it a '58 model. The record player is a Telefunken TW562 and the radio is a 5713x also by Nordmende. Good buy you made there. I hope you can get it fully functional again.
And to further clear things up: the brown patches left and right on the middle section are hiding the holes for the six TV turning knobs. All the above was added later on. It is easy to get the original parts for the Komet since Kuba used them in almost every cabinet that year. It's just the question if it makes sense to convert it back to original..
A full rehab would be a huge job. Like an antique car, you probably have to strip it all the way down into hundreds of parts and then build back up with the 'correct' parts and electronics, if original parts are available. Researching the 'know how' will be a big job, as well. But yeah, the whole thing will have to be taken apart, like the technicians who repair pendulum clocks. Got to know exactly what you're doing.
_His boy, Elroy!_
Lol thank you for sharing this absolute gem!
Jane!!! Stop this crazy thing!!! 😊
That TV chassis is a MAGNAVOX. Circa 1956 or57. These chassis are very reliable when working properly.
“Reliable when working properly”
Not wrong, they last a very long time @@halo3odst
Sir, everything is reliable when working properly.
@@BadazzRule: I know quite a few people who aren’t.
You've reached peak collectors euphoria. One owner with a story. Glad it's in the hands of someone who appreciates it and sharing it.
It's a very famous design piece and a miracle you found it in the wild and in the USA.
The television conversion is very logical since the standards were very different in Europe.
I'd call this an original conversion since it's very neatly done and leave it like this, it's part of the history of this item.
Yes the TV company on the back was likely paid big money by the customer to retrofit a US standards tube and TV tuner inside that unit, and they did it with care and dedication and professionalism. It makes this one 1 of 1. There are no others with period US market conversions.
This is an absolutely beautiful living room entertainment center. A real treasure.
Opinions differ.
Solid maple and African wenge ( wen gay) wood. Wenge was expensive then and rare now. Don't know how many forests are left in existence today. Not surprised that the television was modified to work in the United States. One of the most unusual pieces of vintage electronics I have ever seen!
Not sure where you got the number there are 20 left of either of those trees
@@gav1nbeyond Can't find any accurate sources to quote actual number of Wenge trees as if they don't want to tell anyone how many stands of trees of them are left in the six countries it is found in Africa.
@hestheMaster quite rare but I believe you can still purchase "sustainably" harvested wood it's not cheap thou due to it high demand and low numbers as you said,
@@hestheMaster have used it for inlays it's got a long grain that loves to spitter also the dust is toxic from working with it
@@gav1nbeyond Always use a good mask!
I have a Fisher stereo from 1964. A few years ago, when I was cleaning it out, a stink bug managed to fall inside the dial and get stuck in there. I tried everything I could think of to get it out, but there wasn't anything I could do to get it out, without breaking the dial because it's such a tight space, between the dial cover and the number plate. I thought it was dead and I was going to have to have someone take the stereo apart. I forgot about it for a year. The thing stayed in there, the whole time. Then I slid the case off, when I had to move the stereo, and wouldn't you know it, the damned thing actually managed to work its way out. It was still alive!
I am always plagued by stinkbugs, they hibernate in cold weather indoors. I hate them. You have to remove the entire chassis to get access to the dial glass from inside.
@@MrWolfSnack Yeah, I thought that's what was going to have to be done to get it out. I was shocked that the thing actually managed to squeeze out of there AND that it was still alive? I mean the gap had to be only a few millimeters!
Your TV is a piece of Pop Art that many a museum would appreciate. Once you have physically restored it, I suggest that the way to display it is with some period art from the early sixties on the wall and a period pole light to one side and a patterned rug just in front. That TV is something you would expect to see in the bachelor pad of some entitled swinger. It is quite a find.
So retro 1950’s …fabulous. 😉
This is so beautiful. Like, they knew the screen could only be a certain size so they surrounded it with some outrageous period-appropriate artwork! Brillian!
As someone who had a big wood TV with a tiny screen in it growing up I get the vibe.
Was that the CAT at 1:31??! 🤣 That deserves a whole video on its own lol
It’s a kid
@@72marshflower15so sure. No it's not. It's distortion from a video editing error.
@@72marshflower15definitely a cat walking by evidenced by the tip of the tail going by, the sound, probably aliens.
EVP ?
@@72marshflower15 it's neither, it's adobe enhance lol
I owned a Kuba Console. The turntable and receiver were both on the left side. 2 sliding doors with handles on the left and right. It had like 10 speakers, 4 across the bottom front behind beige colored cloth, on either end on the sides of the cabinet, speakers underneath pointing downwards in the strangest places. It's been such a long time that I can't honestly remember how they were configured or even how many there really were. It might have been 8 speakers, woofers, and tweeters, full range, I'm just not sure. The record changer was like a mini changer and had a similar action like Magnavox used, I think they were called Collaro, where the tone arm would lift up and would tap the edge of the record to sense the size to set the needle down in the correct place. The spindle for 33s and 78s was of the umbrella type. The cabinet was dark and laquered. It was glossy like a piano finish but more like a walnut brown in color.
The previous owner must've had something sitting on top of it because it was sagging in the center. It looked very similar to other European consoles. It was approximately 4 feet long, maybe 3 feet tall, 1 foot wide at the top but getting slightly larger as it sloped down. On the other side of the cabinet was a 45 record rack and the 45 spindle. I've heard a number of consoles in my lifetime but never anything quite like my Kuba. For as old as it must've been ( I knew it was late 50s, early 60s and still don't know much more about it). The sound quality was simply incredible. Congratulations, and thanks for sharing. It's extraordinary!
The wood is sagging due to a combination of humidity exposure (unoccupied house with no heating or cooling) and also its own weight on the weakened wood fibers. I have a 1980's Mitsubishi particle board TV and the bottom panel is also sagging under the weight of the chassis. It was in my garage for several years and then I put it in my basement. Need to rig up a little bit of wood bracing to glue in there to help strengthen it back up again.
I’m in Australia and never seen anything like this!
This is super retro and I love it.
I would have it on display as a centre piece I reckon.
Awesome find.
Congrats on the acquisition. Very cool find. Looking forward to seeing it up and running.
classic unit - amazing. Killer t-shirt too!
Congrats on finding your holy grail! What a wild piece of furniture. It’s the most MCM piece of MCM furniture I have ever seen.
I’m new to your channel, so looking forward to your journey. I hope to hear more about how you found it.
…makes that white particle board storage cabinet to the right look pre-historic 😂❤
Congrats bro, you've done it... you've reached peak nerd!
😂😂😂😂 I’m dying from your highly accurate observation.
this isnt a tv set, this is a work of art
So great. I have seen photos but never a video. Amazing to get it in the wild, so fortunate. Looking forward to more videos.
I'm an antique radio guy. Been restoring since I was 7. Love this TV set! Not my world, but still appreciate it. Looking forward to following the project!
Absolutely breathtaking!! that should be in a museum. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
What a neat tv record player radio combo....I love the design, so unique and quite a statement piece...I'd never heard of them. It is like a work of art.
Didn't know that something like that even existed ! That's a wonderfull piece of art, for sure... Glad that guys like you keep them alive....Thank you, Sir !
i wish modern things had half the style that this does
Can't wait to see it restored and working.
This is an amazing piece. Wow. Just wow. Thank you so much for sharing this! Fascinating
That is coolest looking tv I've ever seen! I wish stuff like this were still made today. I'm blown away by all that equipment inside, all those tubes and wires and bolts. A lot of engineering went into making this. Far cry from modern tvs that are mostly just circuit boards and microchips. I wish you luck on the restoration! Great video!
Man, that is an absolute treasure!!!! Looks like some beautiful combination of mid-century modern and The Jetsons!
This was a delight. I showed my Mom and she loved this. Being Generation X and my parents are Baby Boomers, we all love seeing this, Thank You! ☺️
Amazing--the styling is so Jetsons. A beautiful work of art. I wish you all the best with your plans! Also, your kitty is adorable!
That thing is absolutely incredible.
that's legitimately one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. thanks for sharing!!
I came from Facebook! This is soooooo cool!! Looking forward to more updates and checking out your other videos!
My grandparents had a Kuba Musiktruhe "Dominante". I was always fascinated about it. Beautiful Hifi furniture.
Its an early example of the KUBA 1957-1958 due to the Nordmende TV chassis (Mende 5792X) with the old 90 degree tube version AW53-80. Curious if that tube is still in place. Radio chassis is in fact the Nordmende Fidelio 58 3D with indeed Schallkompressor, so your horns underneath could be original , just placed other type as original used in that radio. Recordplayer is the Telefunken TW562 , Often used in German combination sets. Overal great condition and a great find.
Its a pure design out of the late 1950's as entering the modern space age. Have fun with it, and take good care of this master class design unit.
Yrs ago I repaired the one Kuba bit newer out of 1964. As Germany is app next door.
What a beautiful piece of vintage tech. ❤🎉 Love it they really dont make it like they used to. Adore that shape!
Absolutely incredible art and craftsmanship in your Kuba!
Im restoring a 1948 Philco 48-1286 as we speak
I always liked the hutch TVs, my grandparents had one for a long time. But this is on another level altogether.
I can see why it's your holy grail, it's incredible!
That’s definitely a museum piece. Great score!
Both beautiful & hideous at the same time... I love it!
I just made the same comment!
Wow! Congratulations! I've always thought that this tv expressed the ultimate in 50's modernique!
This popped up on my Facebook randomly today! Never seen one of these before. Quite beautiful, too be sure!
That’s one of the coolest things ever!
I love vintage TVs, but I had no idea this existed. It is awesome.
I knew about this back in 2006 when I was 14 and into old tech I came across it in Google. Always wanted one. Never knew it was not something from the USA.
I've been seeing this TV pop up on a few Facebook groups.
So happy to see this video pop up in me recommendations on UA-cam. Keen to watch
That is the coolest television radio grammo console I've ever seen. I had a few in my collections but not even close to this well designed and cool. This looks cool even by todays standard, and those flatscreens we have today can't even compete with that coolness in design. It's just so pretty, it's actually an art-piece. Awesome find.
Watching from the State of Rhode Island-Wow! The 1959 Cadillac of TVs. Total trip-bro-good for you! Peace!
Absolutely love seeing these, have been waiting for this series since you posted about it!
That’s so cool. Essentially tech made when a TV was hot tech; it’s a TV case mod. What a timepiece.
Congratulations!! Glad it found an appreciative home
That is unbelievably gorgeous!
Incredible, they definitely took mid-century modern ideals and wrapped it in space age futuristic design with that set. From a time when a TV/HiFi system was to be as much of a piece of fine furniture as it was a entertainment tool.
i love how you stay mono-tone while saying" unbelievably excited" hahaha so great, i can definitely relate! congrats on the acquisition! such a lucky find, good deal!
I expressed my initial crazy reaction when I put the down payment on it haha I went crazy
Congratulations, it’s absolutely amazing
Not sure why I’m seeing this video but wow! This is thrilling! I restore vintage sewing machines so I totally feel your excitement (and anxiety over the turning on of the radio! “Please don’t clean or touch anything, I will do it” (I have said that many times!). The wiring looks very challenging and fragile. Absolutely stunning design; I have never seen anything like it. I’m sure you’re on your way through the process so I’m excited to follow up. Congratulations! I’m curious how much you have, and will, invest in this endeavor. I understand the feeling of ‘money is no object’ when it comes to a passion project such as this.
Beautiful find! Nothing like getting one of the last remaining from an already small number produced. I have a 58 Mercury Voyager wagon, a car but a similar situstion withhardly any left and incredibly few made in the first place. Congrats on your holy grail.
That is so cool! 😎
That's amazing! Awesome that you managed to find one
You could design a living room around this absolutely stunning piece of art. There's just nothing like it. Please treat it like the future heirloom it is.
My sister-in-law would flip if she saw this 😂
“idk where to go from here” - 1950s ranch brick cover wall, decor for wall and rug for sure 👍
This is one of those pieces that define an entire home! Very nice
The US TV is from the late 50's early 60's and what was a more compact portable set of the time. Be glad it wasn't fitted with a Predicta chassis and CRT! Absolutely amazing find, that set is beautiful, and the mods are not hard to deal with. As for the style, way out there for 20th century modern, clear into Googie or maybe wilder. I love that thing and can't believe one was even in this country.
Congratulations on this amazing piece of TV history, I am completely blown away.
That is a CRT TV
Wow,that thing looks amazing,i now want one
My dad used to have an old 37” tube TV , I think it was an RCA, that weighed over 150 lbs and had a radio built in on one side and a turntable on the top of the other side with magnetic push close/open doors to conceal them to make the top flat when they weren’t being used
One of these needs to be saved in a museum.
Very interesting, I believe that huge transformer is to step up the voltage to the European 220 VAC. Plus the retrofit was needed to work in the states due to the PAL/NTSC differences....plus the 50 cycle differences. I wouldn't even think to turn it on before replacing all the capacitors. That said, it's an amazing find.
That's definitely why the transformer is there but it's also perplexing. The radio chassis clearly has taps for 110 and 125v, why didn't they just do that?
@@eDoc2020 Good question, maybe for extra isolation as some of the older electronics, radio etc. had awful safety standards.
@@tonytfuntek3262 The mod was most likely done back in the day when it was definitely considered safe enough.
This is the sort of thing you really only expect to see in a museum. Wild to think that any folks have these just hanging out in their house. Damn it is beautiful. Fantastic video, thank you so much for posting!
I can not find the words to describe the discomfort I feel looking at this set. I’m glad you have it
Yet we clicked on the thumbnail, ironically we subjected ourselves to schadenfreude.
Damned Germans hit us with a two for one.
glad I ended up here! Well I have an expertise in this hobby or collection, I think you're right there's nowhere to go from here ! that thing is wild.
0:22 Obviously you need to start a Fallout replica prop collection
You truly sound UNBELIEVABLY EXCITED.. lol. Nice piece bro, congratulations on fulfilling the dream.
Hard starting vintage caps is dangerous, but they must have tolerated reforming by not burning down the guy's home. Awesome find.
I have a friend who has been doing repairs since the 1950s... he absolutely refuses to do anything other that just plug things in, and see what happens. Any caps that get warm get replaced. He insists that they will either work, or if you baby them, they'll just fail later, and it's best to get it out of the way.
I used to freak out at anything more than 12 volts... but now I just watch when smoke does escape, to see where it's coming from. Often that isn't even the end for the part in question, and repairs can still be made.
That is so cool. We need people like yourself, to keep these treasures around. We had TV cabinet deal, with speakers and a turntable in a drawer. Mid-60’s probably.
I cannot wait to watch this restoration! If anyone is up to the challenge, it’s certainly you!
I bought mine about 8 years ago and I'll never give it up. Perfect condition, all original and purchased from a friend of a friend of a friend whose grandparents from West Germany left it to them. They sold it me for $1,200. I drove 6 hours each way to get it and it was SO worth it, man. I've always been tempted to upgrade the monitor in it, but I just can't bring myself to alter anything. It's a 1959, I think, although I've never been able to be sure.
Mods were done in my home state of WA.
Looks like a barber shop occupies that location now. Was hoping to see the business somehow survived.
Would have been cool to see that they were still around, maybe specializing in vintage technology or maybe went through a bunch of iterations and now they make micro Thorium Reactors or something but, no dice.
One of the coolest things I've ever seen. Would love to have this.
Nice one!! Greeting from Germany
I just played a short little game called IndependANT and it had this exact TV! I did not expect to get a video of the real thing in my recommended. It’s freaking awesome!