Flukeoneseventyfive. Nice blog Pete ! I have a 11 91 chassis here which is close to the 11 97 and I was surprised when I pulled it out to see so many paper Caps , it's 1963!! No poly in mine , all paper!! ,I thought that to be a bit odd because the Kriesler TVs were poly about then,perhaps they offered a cheaper model and mine is the no frills version
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I had a look at your Kriesler, looks like a handful that one...pete

G'Day Pete.
Yep paper caps in the 97, it is a bit of a basket case, the gold covering the metal is in bad shape, the finish on top has issues, the turntable is missing the head and the spring connections for the head. not sure what fits behind the radio, as there is a void to the bottom of the cabinet.
but for $20.00, and it sounds great now, I haven't had the crackle back. that is since we had some rain, maybe the earth stakes are working again.
I had cleaned the valve sockets and the valve pins. prior

Hey Pete, You would have seen the Stereo Theatre Clock-Matic 121-79A pictures, any ideas where I can get the speaker grill cloth, these days.

Thanks GTC I will contact him regarding the glass dial, I have a few cracked dials on some of the consoles as well.

And well done Ian on the invention, brilliant idea, Maybe a model for collectors of heavy vintage televisions and stereo grams.

Well fire one week storms the next. had a storm front that stretched from central Queensland to Coffs Habour come through this afternoon.
Had the day off work and knew we were due for storms in the afternoon, but not this bad.
Had massive gusts of wind (we had 85km/h westerlies through July August, and they were a light breeze compared to these gusts), horizontal rain, lost the roofing from an alcove between the sections of the house, found it about 40 meters away on the other side of the house, had a lot of plants in the alcove, most of which I haven't found, and a couple of 2x 3 meter lattice panels are now down the side of the hill, no real major damage, just adds more to the workload, lost power for around 3 hours, lucky I didn't go to work, as I would have been driving home in the storm.

Does anyone know anything about Ferris Televisions, I have seen one, I hope to collect, although it maybe a Ferris cabinet and a home made television chassis, not sure yet on the home made chassis, I couldn't get close enough to find that out, but I know he used to make his own TV's in the Mid 50's early 1960's
Cheers
Peter.

Philips mustard caps appeared on the scene around 1961. The reliability of television receivers improved somewhat as a result. The Ducon wax caps limped along for a couple of years afterwards - possibly manufacturers using up old stock.

Ferris TV's were from memory (correct me if I am wrong) a U.S. Raytheon design modified to suit local conditions and made here under licence.

I’m working on a Kriesler 3k30 at the moment , with the projectographic display. Nice looking console. I’m having dramas getting strong sound out of it. Still working through it though. It’s my first large console. I need to work out whether to renew the cabinet finish, or leave it. It’s in good nick, but the old dark timber finish doesn’t excite me.

Muzzery,
Might be best to live with the dark original stain if it's in good condition, whether it's nitro ,shellac or varnish it's going to be a full strip to have anther colour and that can be a big job.
I have a German radiogram here with the same problem and although I don't like the dark stain . It's original...pete

I don't mind the big job Pete, and I don"t like the dark colour. However, someone said it was a bit rare a set, so, I'm not sure if I'd be silly to

strip the original finish ( which is in reasonable condition)

I cant imagine a floor console having any great monetary value?

Oh , doesn't matter what other people think, it's your item and if you want it a light colour so it fits in , Then go for it, the other issue is,, no one will ever know it was not originally a light colour by the time it's finished.
I can understand you wanting to change the colour.
Is it shellac?? Once it's stiripped oxalic acid will return the timber to its natural colour and you can pick a new colour, oxalic acid sounds nasty , but it's not , it's a bleach and the best way to buy it is from Bunnings in the form of drain and rust remover by diggers! 100 percent oxalic acid.. just mix say 5 tea spoons in a jar with warm water and paint it on after its stripped. Then when it is dry ,wipe it down with metho to neutralise it . It's safe, no worse than house hold bleach, but don't mix bleach with oxalic acid as that produces a halmful gas.
Pete

A few years ago I stripped a Projectographic for its parts and threw the rest out, after there were no takers here. It is a shame that consoles require room that most don't have. I still have a table model Projectographic but its cabinet is in very poor condition and awaits its turn at restoration, which may well be a few years away. I am not sure whether Kriesler made this radio or someone built the cabinet themselves and put a console chassis and speaker in it.

Projectographics are not commonplace. Like any console though, unless it's a six-legger, or perhaps an early AWA, Beale or Raycophone, it's not worth much in dollar terms and this, along with the no room syndrome, is why I ditched quite a few consoles back then.

Projectographics were a solid beast, as was almost everything Kriesler made. They were made at a time when upmarket brands were experimenting with ways to make their tuning dials more appealing to those prepared to pay for them and the Projectographic mechanism was not only fail-safe, it was remarkably simple.