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02-15-2007, 01:34 AM
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Another Zenith Roundie on eBay
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02-26-2007, 01:04 AM
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I kept silent on this one, but decided to go for it. Although I have another Zenith roundie, it's a very low-line set. I'm keeping it in the hopes I find something in a beautiful cabinet with a trashed tube/chassis.
Anyways, I did win the set. Since the ebay seller was "60sChic", I decided to gamble and see if she'd trade the Fridgidare Flair range that's been taking up space in my garage for some time now. Turns out she really wanted the range, so it was a win-win deal for both of us. I loaded it into the ol' Dodge truck and headed for Toledo. Here's a shot while my girlfriend and me were dining at Waffle House. (A pleasure/danger not available in the Detroit area)  60sChic seemed really happy with the range, so I hope she'll enjoy it. She had a house full of old stuff (like all of us) including some really nice Danish Modern furniture. But no old TVs??? Oh well, guess if she wanted it I wouldn't have gotten it! The TV was at another house owned by a friend. It was being remodeled, so I snapped a picture of the retro-family room before it went bye-bye...  Dig that orange fireplace! The TV had been in the same room, and until recently was still hooked up to cable! Take that black-plastic-Chinese-junk! So I fired it up, with no antenna, and it pulled in a good color picture!  Blame the florescent lights and a cheap camera phone for that picture not looking pretty good. It's going to live in my dining room, because the maple finish and "country" style match my furniture perfect. I was kinda against the idea because my daily-watcher 1990 Zenith is just a few feet away in the living room. Then I realized that I've been in other houses that looked a lot worse than just having two TV sets near each other, so if ya don't like it, get otta my house! I gave it a base-line cleaning with some Windex. This set was in a smoker house, so the tar just dripped off of it. I pulled the back off, because I could see the nicotine-flavored dust bunnies hanging out the back. Don't know how well you can see them in this photo, but look at the back, near the HV section... The vent holes are almost plugged. In fact we put the glass top inside the truck for the ride home. Because of it's size, it ended up neat the heat ducts... It stank the truck up so bad we had to run with the vent windows open if we ran the heat! Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-smoke Nazi... I think smokers are great for paying the taxes I don't want to, but damn.. How could you want that crud in you?  On the good side, somebody went to the trouble of making a glass top for the set, and once cleaned, it looks very good. The cabinet is in EXCELLENT shape, excepting the cigarettes and dust. Sorry, I don't have any "after" pictures available at the moment, but they are coming soon. The set will need some convergence adjustments, but the tube is very bright, with a perfect grey scale. The only non-user control I touched was the vertical size.. just a minor touch-up. We watched a show on it Saturday night with dinner! 
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From Captain Video, 1/4/2007 "It seems that Italian people are very prone to preserve antique stuff."
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02-26-2007, 08:17 AM
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Wow that's a beutiful set. Zenith roundies are my all time favorite TVs. I expect that set has had some repair over the years probably including a new picture tube but these sets sure hold up great. Many of them were in daily service throughout the 1980s. Also, with no printed circuit boards, you can use it everyday without worrying about it baking itself to death.
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02-26-2007, 08:23 AM
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EXCELLENT score, Carmine !! Looks like after a session or 2 w/Scott's Liquid Gold, or Murphy's Oil Soap, & some Pledge, that Zenith will be ship-shape...
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02-26-2007, 07:28 PM
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Need help. . Where is the vertical size control on this set? Found the linearity control, its just an unlabled hole in the user control area. I want to dial in the convergance and i need to set this up first
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From Captain Video, 1/4/2007 "It seems that Italian people are very prone to preserve antique stuff."
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02-26-2007, 09:46 PM
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That is a nice set.
I also have the Frigidaire Flair range. We have all discussed the Zenith TV on Bewitched but the Flair range was used often in the show. It was really cool with Sam snapping her fingers or twitching her nose to open the oven. Mine smashed my middle finger while moving it. I twisted it and the oven door came open and about ripped my middle finger off. lost the nail and the whole 9 yards. Strapping the oven door shut is a must next time. polaraman
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03-10-2007, 07:22 PM
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Nice TV! What chassis is in there? Looks like a 25MC33? Look forward to seeing the after pictures.
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03-14-2007, 09:31 PM
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If you can believe this, my internet connection dumped right in the middle of uploading the post!!!
Here's the complete post... Ok, here's your update... All of the usual caviets apply about crummy cell phone pics, hard to take pics of a working TV, etc. I didn't perform any work to this set beyond a light cosmetic cleaning and chassis vacuum. Then I did a quick convergence:  Here is a picture of the TV blending in nicely to my dining room...  Control close-up...  Crosshatch...  Bars...  Some kid...  Woman with goofy expression...  Africa...  Today's weather...
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From Captain Video, 1/4/2007 "It seems that Italian people are very prone to preserve antique stuff."
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03-14-2007, 09:42 PM
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I also thought this would be a good time to show the nifty glasses my girlfriend got me from eBay...
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