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My trip took me to Parkersburg to do some trading with Robert Cikovich-darn, whats his screen name again? Anyway, a heck of a nice guy. He owns-and I got to see it in operation-a real Setchell-Carlson color roundie, unitized chassis & all! Great picture! Anyway, he set me up with a couple of the bw sets...I told him, like I told a bunch of others, that I was trying to find a color console for our buddy Veg. Well, here we almost found one. Unfortunately, this set (which as free!) was just a little too big. This one has a story behind it. Remember back a few months ago, the posting about a defunct tv shop in Parkersburg, was it RCA2000 who went down there and saved some stuff??? Well, thats where this came from. Robert said this one was one of the first put out on the curb; the shop had been closed for about 20 years. So, think about it-the TV sat all that time (maybe longer-the newest tubes have late 70s datecodes & are clean as a pin) then it sat on its end in the back of a van all winter, then it rode nearly 500 miles in the back of my pickup, then we brought it inside-I soft-started it...I did not have to adjust the vertical, I did not have to adjust the horizontal, I did not have to adjust the TINT! Folks, this is where Zenith got its once sterling reputation. There was one defect of note, I ran out of travel on the focus. After some digging I found a resistor that had gone way up in value. After replacement it focuses very sharp. I am very impressed with Zenith right now!
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Bryan
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