Thread: Zenith Spotted
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Old 04-13-2017, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by David Roper View Post
The shortest lived TV set in my family's household between 1966 and 1981 was a portable circa 1971 Zenith. When my sister moved out in 1973, her roommate had the same set. It crapped out shortly after the move and our set followed suit not very much later. I believe the set in these screen caps is the same one. Can anybody identify it by model number? Was it a lemon, or did we just have really bad luck?
A little bit of both! I worked on a few, the picture was only so-so.
The early model had the low focus volts CRT, so it was just like any of the other ones, with a similar CRT.
I have the last run of that model, that uses a high focus volts CRT and the picture quality is much better.
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