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jstout66
06-21-2014, 05:07 PM
Hey, does anyone know if any tuner rebuild shops are still in business? I used one place about 6 years ago and I think they closed.
Or... if anyone has a new or used one I can buy?
It's for a 1974 Zenith Sidekick B&W TV ( the denim one)
Chassis number is: 12CB12X
Model Number: unknown * damn Zenith stickers that fall off
Tuner part number: 175-2100-40A
I know the tuner is bad, because I used an old tuner subber and it works. I think a transistor or something shorted out.
Thanks!

zeno
06-22-2014, 05:25 PM
Be sure its getting its 12V first. The AGC can cause a snowy pix also.
I think the AGC had some lytic failures on the small PCB but its been
years........
They built a ton of this chassis. Even if the tuner has a different
part # it should work fine. You may only have to re index the
selector knob.

73 Zeno:smoke:

jstout66
06-22-2014, 05:42 PM
well.. I didn't think of that, but I assumed the tuner, because when I hooked up one of those old-school tuner subs, it worked great.

walterbeers
06-22-2014, 10:22 PM
I'm the person helping jstout66 working on the set. Zeno was right! Were not going to need the tuner or get it rebuilt. Yea, it was a small capacitor on the solid state PC board. Just a simple 1 MFD cap. Got it playing right now with a great picture, of course using a converter box.

zeno
06-23-2014, 02:58 PM
Great ! Button it up & get another set on the bench to
work on:thmbsp:

73 Zeno:smoke: