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Servicing a 1963 Sears Silvertone 23" b&w tv. P1/? Assessment

3K views · Sep 30, 2026 · Science & Technology

Jordan Pier

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Comments · 27

@hestheMaster · 2 hours ago
Great B&W set that the owner will surely want repaired. Can't wait to see if so and what you do to fix it.
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@WilliamGeddis · 7 hours ago
Looking forward to part 2 (hopefully)
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@MarksKicksOnRoute66 · 6 hours ago
This TV has seen WBIR and WATE many times. My family is from Kingston and Lenoir City. Always enjoy your content!
@gabrielquirosa1617 · 9 hours ago
Really good shape, hope will last many years
@bigalsmallengines · 9 hours ago
Will be a great save.  I like the wood color and design.  🍻
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@Hiy-r3m · 1 hour ago (edited)
I have the similar Sears 23" black and white VHF only console model with a turntable and radio. It was sitting on the road with a nice cabinet. Still had a coax 75 ohm adapter on it. Brought it home and tested. TV worked fine. Put it in the garage 20 years ago and have not turned it on since. I don't know what to do with it. Most people don't want something huge, long with a black & white TV. I will get it around to putting it on eBay one of these years.
@MikeDeJager-ex4wm · 14 hours ago
I grew up with a set similar to this. Ours was a dark brown cabinet and had both uhf and vhf. Dad had the tv guy install a new antenna on the roof when it arrived. I kept the set when i moved into my first house. The TV guy in town swapped the pitchure bulb with a used one that was just as weak. When I moved, i pushed it into a closit and left it at that house.
@gsnfan · 16 hours ago
Wow, this is in good shape.  Many people bought their first TV from Sears then.
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@KameraShy · 5 hours ago (edited)
I  actually remember when UHF tuners were an option. The Federal government mandated that all sets manufactured or imported have them by April 30, 1964 through the  All-Channel Receiver Act (ACRA) signed by JFK  in July 1962.
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@TomSherwood-z5l · 11 hours ago
THAT looks exactly like everyone's TV in the living room when I was a kid.  Variations but same floor plan.  We did not even get a color TV till like 1974.  For us kids the world was B/W.  That scritching noise at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z60OYmP4KRY&t=147">2:27</a> coming out of my left speaker sounded so real I thought one of the cats was climbing up the side of the desk here!    I worked on TVs like that in high school electronics. People donated them to the school and I did manage to fix my share for resale,  even with weird problems.
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@brucemcgee2281 · 5 hours ago
Warwick.  I used to run at Sears.
@f.k.burnham8491 · 5 minutes ago
Yes Silvertone sets used Japanese tubes in most of the ones I had to work on.  Biggest PITA with Sears sets was getting schematics. Remember tubes can go short in different orientations than just vertical. I think I saw another 'lytic by the 8CG7 on it's left. Those black ;lytics were very high failure sets. Many of the sets I saw from Sears were Japanese made.