Does anyone know anything about this Zenith set?
 

Does anyone have any opinions on this set?

http://www.boxcarcabin.com/zentih-25cc50-tv.jpg
http://www.boxcarcabin.com/zenith-25cc50-chassis.jpg

Not my pictures. I don't want to like to the advert because I REALLY REALLY want this set if I can get it!

Examine the convergence coils closely. The plastic has a habit of becoming VERY brittle and falling apart. I had a similar set that the convergence coils decided to fall apart on the 3 hour ride home, and I ended up being left with a huge tangle of wire on the chassis.

I will probably not be the one getting this set so I can't really examine this set. I will *hopefully* have a friend from this forum pick it up, but I don't know if they will be able to...

Kamakiri, what is your opinion of these sets?

An easy TV to deal with, made in '72 or '73.
Built like a tank & a reliable set back then.

73 Zeno:smoke:

It looks like it was from a heavy smoker's home. The set needs a lot of detailing.
A few, on this forum, wouldn't even consider it. :D

Well a chassis can be washed and HV areas cleaned. I have washed chassises before without incident... But as I said that is NOT my set, I don't want to link to the advertisement for it because I REALLY want to get it and I don't want to risk anyone buying it out from under me... I was just asking for opinions on the set as the one I found has I believe the same chassis in it.

A lot of people seem to like them and have had great success with them. I had two of them back in the mid-1990s, and they were fantastic sets. However, I've also had two of them within the last year, and both were headaches.

Those Zeniths with the "$ervice $aver" chassis are super easy to work on, but that horridly brittle plastic both on the convergence coils and the yoke componentry is a turn off for me. Although, I'd still probably get it :yes:

Wuss. The set's about 45 years old, it's old enough to smoke :smoke:

Kidding aside, I'd agree.....heavy nicotine tar is nearly impossible to get rid of in an old TV. And with the tube heat the smell comes back in spades when the set's in use.

I'm probably going to get it even if I have to drive the 750 miles a month early to get it and miss spending Christmas with my family... :p
Tubed color sets are rare as hens teeth here in Texas.. Small Honda with no basement and puny attics makes old things harder to find in any cindtion... Same problem up I'm California...

The seller in Craigslist just emailed me and said they would hold it until Christmas!!!!!!! B
I am buying the set for a measly 10.00 even though I offered $50.00!!

Where are the dancing bananas when you need them?? Lol

For 10 beans I can't go wrong!

That set I believe is 99% the same as the 20cc50, which I have, as a 23" set. They produced awesome pictures, and are very good tv's. I recommend this tv as being the one tv I would save if I had to pick only one out of my floor model tv's to save... ( you know fire and can only save one, or other sci-fi related bizarre scenario where you have that strange option... ) Good luck, I think the picture tubes were also quite good long term performers...

Another little heads-up regarding the plastic parts that habitually disintigrate.
The horiz efficiency coil. The coil's adjustable, and its function is to tune to the sharply resonant 'dip' in plate current of the H output tube.

When the plastic form holding the windings lets go, the resonant point is lost and there's no way of limiting the plate current. In terms of lethality, that's equivalent to a burst aortic aneurysm. :eek:

Well, if anyone wants to see it here is a link to the craigslist ad. It will probably be gone soon as the seller said they were going to take it down...

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/fuo/4156411488.html

shame its gone.that is one fine piece of electronics.saw many of these sets.rarely needed repairs.billy would grab every one he could for resale."the picture will sell it and they never came back."billy made millions in an econimically repressed area of columbus