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Glad you got it going. It would have been nice if Zenith had roadmapped those boards. I think they intended on those sets to be repaired by swapping modules. You may can play with the G2 and focus controls located on the flyback transformer (the thing with the large red wire coming out of it that goes to the crt) to help improve the picture. This set employs AKB (automatic kine bias) and has no cutoff or drive adjustments. Yes, I'll agree that there are TONS of nice TV's (both old and newer models) that are thrown away because something minor went wrong and the owner didn't want to invest any money in it. You might consider placing a wanted ad in the paper advertising "free pickup of non working TV's." I've done that over the years with good results. Here lately, all I've gotten is '80's and newer sets. I hope some tube and early solid state sets will find their way over here soon. You could also ask around your local TV shop. There's one here that gives me all their junk so they don't have to dump it. A good bit of it is fixable. They are just sets that no one wants to spend money on. The ones that are going to cost a lot of $$ to fix get scrapped for parts.
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