Zenith SC 400 in Brookeville Maryland
 

Needs work but could be nice, as usual it's too far from me. Needs Remote and the little door over the volume control.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-c-1964-R...QQcmdZViewItem

The set will need a new diode in the power supply as well.

The remote may be difficult to find, as it is a Zenith SC400 hand unit. Universal remotes will not work with this type of remote system as it operates with, IIRC, electronically generated ultrasonic signals, not IR (infrared) as with all modern remotes. I'd keep an eye out for an SC600 remote on ebay, though. Every once in a while these hand units turn up there with very reasonable starting bids.

I do not think, however, any other Zenith remote but one specifically made for the SC400 will work with this TV, as the control signals used by the various Zenith Space Command remotes varied in frequency; e.g. a remote designed for a Zenith SC300 (or any other Space Command ultrasonic remote control) probably, even likely would not work with an SC400 system.

The 600 will work on this one, My 400 {avatar}unfortunately has only the 600 remote. I am looking for the Color version of the 400 with little luck. Oops! I forgot to mention that diode. Hopefully someone saves it, it looks very restorable. I have fixed up worse sets.

You could work the old ultrasonic remotes by jingling a set of keys in front of the receiver :-) You didn't know what you could get them to do, but they'd do something.

I remember the old Zenith BW TV remotes with the little rods that were struck by springloaded thingies to make the ultrasonic tones.

400 color remotes are probably the hardest to find of any space command remote. There have been numerous 400 color sets that show up, and not one of them has ever had the original remote with it. I was fortunate enough to have found a 400 color remote on ebay about 3 years ago. I think the reason they are so hard to find is because those first generation oval button remotes, like the 400 used a different mechanical hammer mechanisem. If you look at an early remote, the oval buttons are angled downward tward the front of the remote and have more ivory colored buttons. Those remotes used a plastic pawl to load the hammer spring. Ive seen so many of those broken, and the button wont work, and or gets jammed and stuck on an angle when you push it down.
That being said, I would think alot of those remotes got replaced with space command 600's (from TV shops I suppose) as it was a better remote from a mechanical point of view. Just to note, early space command 600's were the same way, so I think remotes from 1966 or later are the "better" design and you seem to find them with the sets still and "working".

It sure is tempting...I have a meeting in a couple weeks that will be within about a half hour from there. But I honestly don't have the space, and this isn't too much different from my 25MC30. If anybody needed me to pick it up and hold it for them, let me know. I'll keep my eyes on this over this last day of the auction.

grab it bryan! i will take your other zenith off your hands.

It's been relisted. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...2BSI%26otn%3D2

Pretty nice looking set, but I'm not crazy about those spool legs. I wonder if they are removeable ?

Too far from me.

aww man... I really wish it was like twenty miles closer to me. This is quite a temptation. What do you guys think? Should I go for this one, or does anyone think that this "bad diode" could be symptomatic of greater problems still?

If I did get this, it would be my first color set, and I had planned on getting a Zenith roundie when I did get a color set...

Twenty miles is like ten dollars worth of gas round-trip unless you drive an Army tank... I would go for it.

Go for it. In my neck of the woods to get anywhere is twenty miles.

I agree, twenty miles isn't that bad. I drive thirty-two to work every day and thirty-two home. Please save it, we'll help ya' figure out what's wrong with it.

Oh no, did I phrase that like crap: I was trying to say it is just outside of my normal search radius of fifty miles. This thing is like seventy miles so it is a bit far.

But what the heck-see the bid on it now? That's mine....:yes:





I wish it was only twenty miles from my home! In the two years, only two tube tvs have turned up that close to me. One was a free '55 RCA 21'' free on craigslist that I got. The other was a beautiful Philco Miss America that was on ebay. That wound up going to this guy:

http://www.atomicwarehouse.com/more....5&categoryid=3

For 1375.00 it can be all mine!

Good luck, I hope you get it! Don't feel too bad, I went 120 miles round trip today to get a Space Command 400 black and white Zenith with what I have now discovered has a bad CRT. LOL