1964 zenith roundie working!! See VIDEO clip!
 

Yes, this TV is actually a 1964, not 65 as I described in the previous thread. I never looked at the chassis number but assumed it was a '65 as it had the UHF slide rule dial. This set has the 25LC30 chassis and was optionally UHF equipped. Has the rare 6DV4 nuvistor UHF tuner. Date codes on the original tubes are all 63-52. Spend the day working on this set, got it working like brand new. Needed a few tubes changed, repaired the VHF fine tuner and replaced the O ring belt. repaired the convergence yoke clover. Didnt need to get into big troubleshooting on this set to bring it back to life. The chassis was removed to be detail cleaned. Checked the HOT current, runs cool at 200ma. All original filter lytics are nice and cool too. CRT is in nice shape and is bright.
After repairing the convergence yoke, it had to be reconverged which was a snap. red purity came in perfect all the way around.
Its all done now and ready to watch......Nice sharp color picture!

Ive been experimenting with my camera that has audio/video mode. I took a 28 second clip of the TV in operation and change through the channels. cut and paste this in your search bar to view. it should take about 2 minutes to download to depending on your connection. After watching it, It looks like I need to adjust the horizontal hold.......

http://media.putfile.com/DSCF1627

That is awesome and beautiful!!! :thmbsp:


life like NTSC Color!! Enjoy that set, they probaly kept this gem servicable a very long time. :yes:

:thmbsp: Hey that's nice!!!!!!

My Zenith roundie would work too, but there's too much air in the picture tube :thumbsdn: By next Rose Parade it will be in shape!

Charles

1) Awesome picture. Very nice job.
2) Awesome movie.

Nice job!! :thmbsp:

John

Oooo I got a 25LC20 that's in need of final adjustment/tweaking.

21FBP22 is weak though :( :(

Beautious! Great movie.

I think so too....
 

I REALLY like the scene in the surplus store, and the restaraunt!!!

(Does anyone else here see what I am talking about? Look at this squashed, pathetic, dried-out sandwich. It should look like that picture up there)

But one of my favorite all-time movie lines is still:::

IS IS SAFE????

Is Putfile a good place to upload? Any massive spam email coming back?

Dave A

Missed the clip but the stills look terrific. Zenith-sharp. :thmbsp:

Not if you don't give them your address. Flurl is another good place, they have anonymous uploading. http://www.flurl.com/

I wasn't able to view the video on PutFile - it needs me to have a plugin installed, and I'm not rightly sure which one it needs - Firefox doesn't find it. Is there a way to just _download_ the video? I hate these sites that feel that they have to display the video in a browser frame. What ever happened to actual files?

All of my ranting about the decline of useability and functionality on the internet aside, that set looks great in the pictures. The screenshot of the Warner Bros. logo looks wonderfully crisp and vivid. Good work!

-Ian

Great job, Doug! :yes: :thmbsp:

And to think I was impressed when I first saw the Sears Tower!! Atta boy.

And you were smart enough to get that old bag Walter Cronkite off the screen and click it back to Desperate Housewives! Yeahhh!

I hope you were kidding about my favorate anchor, if you ask me desperate housecrap sucks royal!! :nono:

Thanks for the nice compliments. FYI, I dont watch that junk either, most of todays programming is for yuppies and a younger audience. Im very conservative for my age. I only was flipping through the channels for the heck of it so you could see what the space command TV was like.

Cooool

I don't know what age group it was designed for, but I'm 46 and desp. housefraus rule around here on Sunday eve's. I've been waiting for Terri Hatcher's return since ABC canned Lois and Clark. I don't watch alot of tv either, but for that , I make an exception.

Nice set, My 25MC33 chassis looks very similiar. Zenith didn't really stray much form their chassis layout or design. Good thing, My HV slowly powers up, softly AND smoothly. Mine is very reliable, GREAT idea to have heat sink on power Xfrmr & breaker instead of outdated fuses that need to run around and get replacements--great design overall. My set has the cool tri colored logo to signal a color TV, I guess all old Zeniths or most had this 3 color badge?? Seen similiar bigger badge on older Motorola 21" color TVs.

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didn't some maker's set have a 'color' badge that even lit up when a color program was comming in?

I don't remember a badge as such, but some sets did have a "color" light.