Found on the side of the road:1981 Hitachi CT1911 Television

First off, HEY!!! I miss you guys and it's great to be back here making a post!

Anyway, I just wanted to share this Television I found the other day with you guys. Finding CRTs on the side of the street isn't that hard to do, and I usually wouldn't care to take one home with me, especially while I'm away at school lol. But, this one caught my eye and I just had to have her.


Luckily I had this blanket in the trunk. Because it was a bit dirty and a homeless guy pissed on it for all I know.


When I got it home I gave it more inspection and found that the power cord had been cut off of it. Maybe a homeless guy took it to strangle someone in a dark alley-way or something (who knows). I gave it good cleaning and here is the result.





I don't have my tools with me where I am, but I wanted to rig something up to test it. So I got some paper clips and turned them into probes to stick into an adapter plug. Not the safest thing, I know. But I'm a professional! lmao


AND...she works!

Hooked her up to the cable jack in the apartment and everything looks great!



I'm really happy with the TV. I love the way it looks, and apparently Hitachis were the shit back in the day. Everything works smooth on it and I can't way to put a front loading NES next to do. Will really give that retro vibe.
Can't believe someone left her out to die :,(

 

That is very cool, love the sounds of the mechanical rotary dial! Nice idea for the quick power test. You can pop that back cover, there should be enough power cable inside to wire up a new power lead. Just keep clear of the Flyback Transformer due to high voltage even when unplugged. I have an older RCA wood grain Color Track, but it is a "modern" unit with push buttons to scroll thru the channels. Say, how did you pick up the TV stations with the analog tuner?

 

Nice car btw, and yes Hitachi was great back in the 70s and still is a good brand today.

 

Nice find! My childhood gaming TV was somewhat similar in design (check my signature below for an approximation).

 

Oh yeah, I definitely know about the hazards of working with these old televisions and I have a bit of experience with them. I'm going to re-cord it as soon as I get to my soldering iron. My building provides just basic cable hook up free of charge. I just plugged the cable line right from the wall and into the TV and it worked!

Yeah, I had a similar setup as a kid, too! I want to re-create that same kinda set up from your signature. Put a VCR and a NES underneath lol.

 

TVs with rotary channel switches became very rare thing now and you need to be very lucky to find one in perfectly working condition (minus power cable but that's not much of a problem).
P.S. Hitachi made good TVs back then, i had a portable TV in 80s and still have CMT2191, CRT is like new after all those years.