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Old 04-12-2007, 10:53 PM
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'81 Zenith space command restored. Pics.

Good evening fellas. Thought I'd share some thoughts on this tv I brought home a few weeks back. Neighbor was trashing it and I stepped in to save it. Thought I was a weirdo for sure but no sweat. I figured it was an older set but its from January of 1981. Not too bad!

This set was a wreck cosmetically, stunk of cigarettes, dusty as anything. In fact, I had to use a large air compressor to blow the dust off the chassis before even turning it on. Damn lol.

Good news was that it was a relatively simple repair-- The 'Master' power switch was flaky and causing the set to cycle on-off, so I shot it with some Deoxit. Helped alot, no worries there. Judging from the inside, however, I figured the CRT was gonna be weak, as the set was obviously heavily used. Well. For an EFL 19VJNP22 tube it is VERY strong on all colors and brighter than most sets I've seen. I adjusted Horiz width, focus, G2, cutoffs, etc.. and now have another great 'newer Zenith!

The model is SS1923W . Has ultrasonic space command, which works quite well.

Here ya go.

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