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Old 08-23-2016, 09:49 PM
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1951 Zenith 16" Porthole

Like many guys, I like to restore more than one set at a time. A friend of mine found this same cabinet in blonde with no chassis. It's near mint and the seller wants to get rid of it so a deal is being made to acquire it. I thought what am I going to do with it? Put the chassis in my mahogany set into the blonde cabinet since it's worth more? Then a few days went by and I found another seller wanting to sell his zenith chassis from a trashed cabinet. So now I'm trying to get a deal on that chassis so I have two complete sets. In the mean time I'm going to go ahead and restore the chassis I have. I'll order parts for my RCA portable I'm working on to save money on shipping by ordering all of the parts together. The chassis is 24H20 with a 16" metal tube, 16GP4 I believe. Like my other 16" I restored, the tube tests bad, but still lights up with a very watchable brightness to it. It also has the seperate power supply chassis. I'll irder all of the parts in the next week or two and get at it.
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