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06-13-2011, 05:14 PM
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A lighter side of fishtanking
(True Confessions of a recovering fishtanker)
...my operational CTC2 chassis was driving the RACS-rebuilt 15GP22 for a year at the ETF museum, and so my cabinet was bare. Undaunted, I stuffed a $110, China-built, RCA-branded, ATSC, 8-1/2 by 11-in. CRT set into my empty CT-100 cabinet. Built a 5.1 sound system around it. Kept it a secret till now. Humbly yours, Pete 
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05-23-2011, 04:51 AM
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I wonder if the user will post on this thread that did this??
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Quite sad......... Last edited by Dude111; 05-23-2011 at 04:56 AM.
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05-21-2011, 11:09 PM
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I always enjoyed Jim Fred's writings. He had his own newsletter, if I remember right, which I subscribed to in the mid-80s when I started collecting. (I was also pretty young) I seem to recall him saying the same thing in one of them.
It hurts to see this happen to the Zenith. I guess I'll leave it at that.
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05-22-2011, 12:35 AM
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Well, there is an outside chance that the old picture tube failed, like open heater or the vacuum leaked out. Or some such fatal failure, in which case the evildoer decided to reuse the cabinet to hold more modern guts... If it were me, I'd try to keep the tuner functional, say having it feed its IF output signal into the modern guts' IF strip.
And no, I'm not the one.
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05-22-2011, 02:38 PM
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I've inquired about it a couple weeks ago, the VK'er who shall remain nameless because I'm nice for some reason threw the chassis away and sold the picture tube. I wanted to get the set back as long as the 26KC20 chassis was still around as I have a tube and glass for it. But it just aint worth my trouble as it is. Sad but oh well, that's what happens if you sell or trade something. A lot of this will happen after we're gone so I'll just have to get over it and keep searching for the real early stuff that's worth the time and effort. I simply don't have the resources to spend on this one as it will cost more than the set's worth. I would like to see someone try to save it though, someone much closer than I
Here's what it USED to be like.......http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=170055
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05-22-2011, 03:14 PM
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That sucks, but you can't save everything. I've recently sold or parted a lot of sets, I'm tired of just having a hoard of busted tvs around I'd probably never get to repairing anyway. Oh, and just to be clear, it wasn't me!
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05-22-2011, 10:16 PM
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I figured it out - what do I win?
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05-23-2011, 07:49 AM
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Well, Eric, he lives in Troy, Mi and his name starts with "C"
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05-23-2011, 10:00 AM
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Hopefully nobody will sell or trade anything they prize to that guy in the future after seeing how your set wound up. Anything can be fixed,it's just a question of time and money,just because a set quits working doesn't mean it should become a shell for new electronics.
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No wonder this circuit failed,it says "made in Japan"!
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05-23-2011, 11:40 AM
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http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=246227
Even has a nice video But it looks like he may try and do the right thing.....? sometimes? http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=249168 Let me immortalize this 
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05-31-2011, 08:29 AM
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Well, all might not be totally lost. For $65 (or less) you get a very nice looking black metal cabinet with knobs and perhaps other Zenith stuff still inside that is extremely rare. AND you might take a more common el cheapo Zenith ratty cabinet console with a good insides. Get my drift??? I recommend you go after it! NOW!!!!!!!!
Look again, it also comes the seldom found matching base to set it on. Think I'll go after it.
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05-31-2011, 07:26 PM
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saw the video.how close this set was to being perfect.heartbreaking to say the least.one hour of adjustments and it could have been saved.a zenith roundie in an upright cabinet.at a loss for words
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06-01-2011, 02:40 AM
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It is a royal shame that this happened. If I was in your shoes I'd be half tempted to steal back...Errmm I mean rescue the other sets I traded, and anything else that I coulden't stand seeing fishtanked while there.
  I'd buy the cabinet if I lived nearer. If folks have pieced CT-100s together from scratch then it should be mutch cheaper and easier to find and get a chassis, CRT, neck hardware, back, and anything else I forgot to mention. Tom C.
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