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Old 31st Jul 2017, 8:17 pm   #1
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Default 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.

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Old 31st Jul 2017, 8:53 pm   #2
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Hi David, definitely NOT and improvement, an a pre colour set too!

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I could weep.
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Old 31st Jul 2017, 9:10 pm   #4
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Total waste.They want how much for it? £120?
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Enough to make one feel decidedly unwell

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I think we should raise a collection, buy it and burn it. J.
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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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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?

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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.
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Whoever did this needs to be shot. That could have been another nice set saved and restored
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Old 1st Aug 2017, 8:39 pm   #11
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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?

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Default 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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Default 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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Default 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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This "cocktail cabinet" used to stand in the corner of an elderly relative's living room.

Was it once a TV?
Possibly a Decca DM4C.

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Default 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/

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I think we should raise a collection, buy it and burn it. J.
Unless anyone has a scrap set to restore some internals to the tarted up cabinet? A 405 line 'colour' TV!

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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Old 2nd Aug 2017, 3:50 pm   #18
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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.
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Old 2nd Aug 2017, 4:17 pm   #19
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Default 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.

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It's amazing what you can do with fake Liberty wallpaper. John.
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