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06-24-2014, 09:58 AM
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HEY!!
I see this is an OLD thread, but thought I would revive it to get some help on the EXACT same set. I was at a family member's house just for fun and hang out with them while they ran a little yard sale. The house NEXT door to them...was having an "Estate sale" that same day. A few of us wandered over there and I saw this same Zenith set (no remote....not AC/DC). It looked completely unmolested, and he hadn't run it for like ten years. I got it for five bucks without even any haggling. Got it home, and does come on, tune, sound....BUT, appears to have a real bad focus issue. I did open it up (top and sides are just a few phillips screws..and then one phillips holding the little speaker assembly to that cover). Everything looked good...only a little dusty. I was able to get a "better" picture by fooling with the G2,focus and that hidden red Brightness Range pot next to Sharpness. It's a watchable picture....but the focus pot on the FB appears to JUST not do it enough to read any sort of text. Of course I've likely completely dorked up it's HV by playing with the G2/brightness. Not a BAD thing...since I finally now have got an old Heathkit HV probe coming from eBay. I had been procrastinating on getting an actual HV probe...so now DO have one coming. I have noticed twisting the Focus connection apart does make a huge difference (is their a rectifier in that white tube?). The focus becomes REAL bad and not adjustable....so I appear to HAVE focus (without JAMMING my finger in there to find out!) I can't seem to find anything around on SETTING the HV back to where it should be once I get the HV probe....or any schematics and what I should be looking for as far as Focus HV. The board on the back of the CRT looks perfectly okay...and appears the focus only goes to the socket and to the CRT without even making it to the board itself. This is a NEAT little TV, and would love to put it in my kitchen as a daily driver if I could. I "deleted" all the channels except channel 13 (just poke the "skip" button for unwanted channels...dunno how to add 'em). It'll come up to my inhouse transmitter simply by turning it on now, which I like ALOT for the kitchen (no fooling with stuff with wet hands...or mucking up the set's cabinet with cooking stuff) Anyone found decent scans of any service stuff for this thing?
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