You really cant improve on it IMHO. Major chassii seem to run in four
year cycles plus overlap on both ends. Also B&W console sales were
all but gone by 1970. I started in 1970 & we had no console B&W on the floor & maybe 5 sales a year. Not that we were small, did 300-400K IIRC
in Zenith. So in 4 yrs you know its gonna be a SS set,
why spend on designing a hybrid when the market is dying ?
So they milk it for as long as they can til production got too expensive
& used the already designed 19" B&W chassis.
I never seen the insides of a SS Zenith console B&W. I did sell a few
out of the book to oldsters. I ?THINK? they put the dura module
B&W chassis in a few apx 1970 then ended consoles with the little
upright chassis from the 19".
73 Zeno
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Originally Posted by rca2000
I sometimes DO wonder:WHY Zenith went wit that chassis for so LONG? After all...they DID go to a much more HYBRID chassis for their smaller sets. an 8-tube hybrid set (8YB46 or something) and the 4 or 5 tube hybrid for the 13" sets (12CB12X and such). but NOT on the 23" set--they STAYED with the 1966 design till the END of tube BW.,
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