WOW, this is the exact TV I grew up with lmao. At one point in '85 or '86, something happened to the CRT and if it was off for too long, it would take damn near 3 hours until a picture showed up, though you could still hear audio. Funny thing is, after the 3 hour garbage was discovered, mom and dad left it on 24/7 for almost 14 years straight.

"personal touch" For dad to really feel like he's dialed in that PERFECT picture no other set can deliver...

That CRT cache is absolutely insane.

That last part was actually found footage from the future about shango’s house someone bought after he EOL’d.

Here's something to think of about this set, it's 40 years old. 40 and there's still life in the CRT, the chassis is still working. That someone paid the better part of $500 for it in '82 I'd say they got their money's worth out of it. For ugly plastic and particle board and cheap electronics I wouldn't complain too much. As for that house, holy cow, all those old CRT's and especially the old low deflection ones and small roundtubes, what a score! Totally worth trashing some of your near dead ones to take in a bunch of those. Even if you won't use them it's very likely someone would gladly take them.

Those CRT's, that man may have saved the TV collectors market for a century! Hero!!

that stash of tubes MUST be saved! give them to the early television museum !

Love how that Indian Casino is literally named Morongo, as in "where would a moron go?"

That Picture tube hoard is AMAZING. Probably the most I've seen pictured in one place. There were at least 3 different 21AXP22s...Those are treasures if good. The Hoffman branded AXP is count it's fellow survivors on one hand rare.

More than likely the reason why the picture was "shrunk" vertically and the vertical hold control was diddled so much was because the original owners may have thought there was something wrong with the vertical deflection when the TV was showing 16:9 programming (because of the fact that 16:9 programming shows up "letterboxed" on a 4:3 TV) so they were trying to get the screen to "fill out" when there was letterboxed programming on the TV but then when 4:3 programming showed up on the TV screen they had to readjust the vertical. So with that in mind there probably wasn't actually anything wrong with the TV, just someone who didn't understand how modern ATSC programming worked on an older NTSC set.

"My name is Shango 066 but everybody calls me Shango".

I was sat here bored then boom a vid from Shango now time to sit back watch and wait for the blambulnce

OMG that house at the end! There must have been over a 1000 CRT's! I hope they were rescued lol

My mother-in-law spent years in a recliner watching a Quasar that looked exactly like this one. It was still working when she passed, and it's probably out in the barn gathering dust.

Quintessential any-year-in-the 1970s color console TV! Only update was the electronic tuner/channel display. The height of kitsch! I would use it, both as a stand for up to 50 inches of modern OLED, and to play my circa 1980 Atari and Mattel game consoles on, while the flat screen TV on top kept me appraised of the Ukraine situation. Thanks Shango for continuing to provide us something to periodically take our minds off the aforementioned crisis. Phono Nut seems to be laying low the last few weeks

My aunt and uncle had this same exact Quasar console TV in their family room in the basement of their split-level home. Worked great back in the day, and it definitely was cable ready. It was the one TV in their house that didn't require a cable box. Wow, the tacked on video at the end with the house full of picture tubes. I was expecting there to be a CRT in the bath tub.

Oh man, 1982, good old times...

Wow, THAT is a serious picture bulb collection!

Those Quasars have a Capacitor near that heat sink the Vertical outputs are on in the Horizontal circuit that will dry up and cause the picture to be dark and smear from left to right side of picture.. Changed many out in the mid to late 80's. I think they got to hot and would fail- Was happy to see one of these ugly sets, sold them new. Thanks !

I've never seen picture tubes invade a home like that before.

I bought a regunned 14" black and white crt (70 degree deflection, 1950's era) back in 1978 with a very dark/blue cathode, still works well today with plenty of emission.

This would be perfect in a hobby room. Nice blurry picture, after a beer who cares. And the cabinet is ideal for hiding funny herbs. If it pops one day it is not a to big loss.

It always amazes me to imagine somebody shopping for a new TV and picking that thing with that cabinet,,, it's like going car shopping in the mid seventies with your hard earned money and driving home in a Matador or a Pacer.....

You have just multiplied the total number of bare CRT's I have seen in my life, by at least 10x 😮

As always, I love your commentary on the personal knob!!! Great vid Shango!

this is a great video Shango, your commentary is the best always!!

So, the last Quasar you featured, I talked about how it was "Grandma's TV" and how you couldn't hook your Nintendo to it because Grandma was afraid you'd damage her TV. This Quasar was Grandpa's TV. This Quasar was the TV you found in the home of a man who worked at Chrysler for 35 years, until a robot replaced his job. He was at about retirement age anyway, so he decided to cut his losses. He bought this TV shortly after retiring, and he kept it until the day he died. By the 90's, he was using it as a stand for a newer TV. He never got rid of it because "Well they don't make 'em like this anymore! No they don't make 'em like this anymore. This is gonna be worth something some day! They don't make 'em like this anymore."

That "Personal Touch" button is to enhance your cigarette nicotine enjoyment while watching your favorite newscast.

There is a type of hoarder that collects as many as he can of some hard to get item. He will never be able to use them all. If someone wants to buy one he will say something like "I have a roundy coming in soon, I need them". He never fixes the items, he never sells them, he just wants to have more and more of them. If something happens to him, the family sends everything to scrap. This may not be the case here. Often this happens with antique classic cars. They are stored outside until they rust away and they are not even good for parts.

Fix the TV, then complain it only shows trash and ads. That's peak shango right there :D

1:46 personal touch knob go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

This is beautiful. It looks just like the one my great grandparents had when I was a kid. I have a lot of great memories of watching Wheel Of Fortune with my great grandma in the early 80s.

Hi Shango0. I owed a Quasar back in the day. It had a solid wood cabinet and was one heavy thing. Hope to see another Sunday video, when you can. All my very best.

Man, I love your humor! Keep it going! 😁😁😁

I think the image quality was better for SD broadcasts before it switched to digital. Analog TV actually looked pretty good.

A casino named "Morongo". "Moron go".. Wow, talk about precise and accurate directed marketing.

Shango man, you can't be dropping that at then end of this vid! Holy crap, big smile on my face to say the least! You never know what's hiding around in someones house!

13:22 I had the same years ago, My TV wont switch on mate, its completely dead, The ON / Off switch must be broken, It needs a new one fitting, if I've been told that once, I've been told it a hundred times, I kid you not. I often used to tell the customer I would supply a replacement switch for free, because I kept a large stock of On / Off switches, the dam things were always going wrong, It would be very easy to fit themselves and save them the call out charge, As I recall, not one person ever took me up on my offer, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Right at the top of Mount Stupid, but, as I'm sure you are aware, it takes all sorts to make the World go round (or switch the T.V. on :-) P.S. great KZfaq channel, keep it going my friend.

Thanks for uploading my vid!

I worked at the Quasar factory service center in the 80s. You got to watch out on those where it smears to the right. Could be CRT or maybe not. There are caps that filter the B+ source feeding the CRT socket board that go bad and it will smear to the right just like that. Sometime the cap(s) are on the CRT socket board and sometimes on the chassis near the flyback. Scope the power source going to the CRT socket board for horizontal pulses in the DC. If that’s the case the caps are shot. I fixed a lot of them while working at Quasar.

This TV has lived long enough to have The View played on it in 2022...I'm not sure what to make of that.

Hi Shango!!! Thanks for the video

I remember 40 years ago messing with one with the works in the drawer and got shocked which killed the TV. It’s funny thinking back when I used to see these sets in all the stores.

National Video Corporation pioneered square color CRTs.

Wow! Good On Him For Saving Those CRT’s! Those Will Save the tube TV Hobby for a while to come

A gold mine of picture tubes!

That takes me back when I worked in a local radio and tv shop.

I remember sitting in front of one of those in my uncles house with the 70s wood furniture with clear plastic on it

"I swear it just gets dumber everyday" LMAO! Yep, sure does!

I hate how they went from all wood with envelopes simple styling to plastic monsters but still better then flat screens. Holly crap hope that guy saved as many of those CRTs as he could that where good

I took the band off one of those B&W tubes years ago and watched it implode. Lucky to have been behind a couch when it let go. I was impressed how the glass shards embedded themselves in the concrete wall.

Love that ending. Perfect music for a pix tube hoarder.

Yeah, that CRT is pretty much gone to TV heaven

Very good explanation why old stuffs doesn`t work.

Routing out the vertical hold port together. Now that made me laugh. 😂

Excellent work. Hopefully you can grab those pictures tubes from that house and stick them in a storage unit or something so you can completely fix all those tvs you have without fear of the picture tube being worn out!

I brought my 1st color TV on my 1st paycheck in August 1981. It was Sanyo (Sears) 19" that last until 2017 when I trashed it and paid $60.00. for deposition fee. There is no repair or home service like the big screen floor model that popular during the 60 and 70 in America. The floor model TV similar to this one cost between $800.00-1000.00 in 1970 with home service contract that cost about $80.00 a year that consider $2.5K to day dollar value base on gold standard ($37.42 per ounce back in 1968.) Oh I forgot the moving cost for this size of TV to the shop is more than $100.00 plus service estimate fee plus actual cost that added up probably cost more than the set itself.

The type of TV you leave behind in your double wide, when you finally abandon it. I actually took apart a very similar TV in the mid 90s, and no I did not live in a double wide just a very crappy house that should’ve been abandoned, lol

As a beaver, I was looking forward to seeing you work on a nice woody tv. I'm very disappointed with the plastic. I'll be filing a grievance with my union. 😉

Just think of all the eyeballs that once stared for hours at all those CRTs. Creepy.

I can't believe those tv still exist untill now, that's really antique and unique

wow! soft and vivid .. is that the first warm and cold we have on todays tv's lol just got to the dance music .. with visions of dancing a lil ..

Just the sort of TV style that would go with my old plastic woodgrain Atari games console. Just perfect for playing ET.

The soft and hard joke had me dying 😂

Oh looking good to a spectacular EOL on that set!

Wonderful woodwork...cheers.

What a great find with all those CRTs . I hope you are able to use some of them. Were the ones in the box NOS. ?? I hope so for future use.

“I’m sorry, your house is infested with CRTs” Like my GOD they’re EVERYWHERE. I guess Shango has several replacement tubes now…

Another fine set from Phillip Morris! Mmmm full flavor.

That is such a beautiful set

14:00- Aaaahhh, just like the good-old days!

That "Personal Touch" knob is the Joe and Hunter BIden exclusive VIP member only feature control.

Hit it with the rejuvenator before blowing it up to space

You had the date posted on the back. You panned over it twice. This TV is a POS. How I fixed these was covering the tuner and hitting them with a high-pressure hose. Hit it again with compressed air and let it dry for a week. Presto! works every time.

Great finds, faux wood TV, what a winner

One of these days this style will be back in demand, like mid century modern. I pray I will have left this mortal coil by then.

Holy molly that CRT house is any TV collector's heaven. I hope all those CRTs will go to someone who can sort, test, pack and sell them.

_"But It's Another One Of These"_ - Add that to the flat tone of 066's voice and that pretty much sums up this television's act. 00:18 About as welcome as a fart in an elevator.

Sadly, console TVs never came to European countries. They look so good and nostalgic. A staple of the American household.

Hah, I clicked on it because I loved how this look. Especially because it is quintessential 80s.

This Quasar TV is great for a spectacular EOL video!

Please give us home hints what happened to this amazingly huge CRT collection!

Does this cache of CRTs resolve the CRT Crisis of our time ?

It's Friday night and I'm looking to take a tour of "Flavor Country." Let's roll.

I use to fix the same look console back in the 70"s - 80"s, but they were mostly Zenith models, mostly the Hor. Transistor for the high voltage was 90% of the problem, that TO-3 you noticed in the fly back

This looks similar to one my grandparents on my dad's side used to have when I was growing up. The only difference was the buttons were rounded on the console, and the power button was blue in the middle of it.

LoL your one liner humor is awesome

I like the comment about the vertical size and a bad picture tube-when I was in school my teacher used to tell us when he would go to the house to fix the set and there would be nothing wrong with the picture but the lady of the house would say she did not like it he would use the vertical hold control to slowly roll the picture and ask the lady as the picture was rolling slowly if she liked that picture better and to tell him to stop when she liked the picture that came into view

Looks similar to what my uncle had from the early '80's; in fact it may be the same model. First experience with Atari 2600 on it. Takes me way back! But I'm pretty sure that one was wood.

I'm not much younger and I remember during my childhood how appreciated and highly valued by parents' and grandparends' generations were wine glasses and other table utensils, chandoliers etc. made of lead cristall glass. As far as I remember, picture tubes are made of very high lead content glass - about 20% (except Tektronix's ceramic electrostatically deflected scope CRTs) and the only other glass product that has higher lead content are screens of the sealed chambers used to work on radioactive materials - around 30%. I think CRT's glass is properly recycled, but aren't there craftsmen that can repurpose them without melting? I doubt that after scraping carbon cover out of the bell it would be optically acceptable for a fish tank, but i.e. lighting fixtures might even benefit from this.

Back then when I had no TV because of no money to afford it, this would have been awesome for me.

Besides Chicago being "Hog Butcher for the World" , we apparently supplied a good part of the US with televisions and associated parts. Matsushita /Quasar was in the nearby suburbs as was Zenith ( picture tube factory, and also a few other plants within Chicago itself), and that one reman tube was also made in the city as well. seems that whole industry, along with B&K Precision / Dynascan / Cobra, and a few other test equipment manufacturers are also all long gone.

The CRT segue .. music implosion ..shango’s jackpot …

I saw the post with the crt's last year on the VTC,that was a score for the guy who grabbed them.

Played the first PS1 Resident Evil on a TV like that when it was new. Perfect aesthetic for it.

I hope that people are able to save all of those tubes

That old Quasar was big enough to accommodate the top load Quasar vcr you would’ve been buying in 83 lol.

You should crank up that sub brightness to get the maximum out of that dead CRT.

I love those. The fake wood looks ok on that one

On the topics of these console tvs Ive got one that is a stereo system and it all works besides the tv part and its getting high voltage and the tube fires but no image, audio, or "snow" on the crt The audio works for the radio, record player, and 8-track but its only on the tv part its bugged would this be a transistor failure or something more severe?