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Originally Posted by fujifrontier
Good god I hate that shit.... it happens the same damn day the telly gets put out on the kerb. I hope the CRT gave them a nice jolt!
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This just happened to me a couple of weeks ago. A friend called me and said there was a nice looking Zenith '50's B/W console at one of the county dumpsters. He described it as the old type with the seperate safety glass, then the knobs below the tube, and then the speaker under the knobs. He said the cabinet was not even beat up. Well, by the time I got a way over there, about an hour later, some #$%$^$^@#@$$ had busted the set all to heck and back. All that was left was some busted glass and the old busted speaker. The chassis was nowhere to be found. My friend said he would have gotten it for me; but, he can't lift anything very big and no one was there to help him. I reminded him that if he saw ANY vintage electronics to please try and get it if at all possible.
Concerning the Zenith Chromacolor; does anyone know exactly how long Zenith used this cabinet style? I've seen it used with CCII sets, the early SYS 3 (9-153) sets, and the second generation SYS 3 (9-160). Was this cabinet style possibly used with the 9-181/9-186 chassis?