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31st Jul 2017, 8:17 pm | #1 |
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Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
How about this beauty? This Decca 121 projection TV set was seen in a charity shop in Newcastle. Like the artwork on the doors?
The second attachment shows how same set should look like. DFWB. |
31st Jul 2017, 8:53 pm | #2 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Hi David, definitely NOT and improvement, an a pre colour set too!
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31st Jul 2017, 9:00 pm | #3 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
I could weep.
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31st Jul 2017, 9:10 pm | #4 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Total waste.They want how much for it? £120?
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Enough to make one feel decidedly unwell
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1st Aug 2017, 6:43 am | #6 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
I think we should raise a collection, buy it and burn it. J.
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1st Aug 2017, 4:41 pm | #7 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
I blame that afternoon TV programme that takes something 'useless' and makes something 'useful' out of it. Is your picture back to front, by the way?
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1st Aug 2017, 5:01 pm | #8 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
The picture of the real Decca 121 was flipped horizontally.
As for that other wretched thing, why not load it on to an old barge, set fire to it and send it down the River Tyne and on to the North Sea? DFWB. |
1st Aug 2017, 5:29 pm | #9 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
No David, it might frighten the fishes..
To be honest David I thought that Newcastle folk were built from stronger stuff! Now if it was in some trendy North London boutique where the locals had more money than sense, it could be excused. J. |
1st Aug 2017, 6:43 pm | #10 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Whoever did this needs to be shot. That could have been another nice set saved and restored
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1st Aug 2017, 8:39 pm | #11 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
It's very difficult to remove paint from cabinets if the original surface lacquer was stripped off. Many years ago I took on the task of removing horrible pink paint off a Murphy A146 baffle radio. The look of thing beggared belief, the paint looked like it had been applied with a lavatory brush.
So what's happened to the Decca's electronics? DFWB. |
2nd Aug 2017, 1:30 pm | #12 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
I suspect it was dismantled many years ago to make a cocktail cabinet which, as is usual, never happened. I mean how many people actually had cocktail cabinets? I've often seen a tidy old TV in the corner of someone's house and excitedly asked to see it - open the doors and -look!- - an empty box.
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2nd Aug 2017, 2:10 pm | #13 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
This "cocktail cabinet" used to stand in the corner of an elderly relative's living room.
Was it once a TV?
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2nd Aug 2017, 2:34 pm | #14 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Looks identical to a Bush set I once had - model number possibly TV76C, though it was quite some time ago so I could be wrong about the model number.
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2nd Aug 2017, 2:44 pm | #15 |
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2nd Aug 2017, 2:56 pm | #16 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
That certainly looks like it. The shape of the bottom and tapered case is the same. The legs were probably a later addition.
https://www.radios-tv.co.uk/monochro...wn/decca-dm4c/ Thanks.
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
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This is even worse than the dreaded bluetooth conversion. The empty cabinet could still have looked good and had some use without painting it. |
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2nd Aug 2017, 3:50 pm | #18 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Here lies the problem:
You would be hard pushed to get £120 for a complete-but-disused example of this set. You MIGHT get an offer on this travesty of an acid-tripping bedside cabinet. |
2nd Aug 2017, 4:17 pm | #19 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
Quote StationX: "That certainly looks like it. The shape of the bottom and tapered case is the same. The legs were probably a later addition".
Found upstairs above the shop languishing among the junk another Decca DM4C. If you think about it, I wasted a lot of time constructing that special chassis for the Beau Decca. Instead, it should have been handed over to those artistic people in Newcastle. DFWB. |
2nd Aug 2017, 4:48 pm | #20 |
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Re: Decca 121 seen Newcastle.
It's amazing what you can do with fake Liberty wallpaper. John.
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