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Originally Posted by captainmoody
I said no more consoles due to space concerns (small house and large family) but went back on my word again!
I was headed to the doctor this morning and saw these two sets in the trash about 8 blocks from my house. Of course it had to be raining like all heck as well...
Got both of them home and dried off. The Zenith looks fine still, the RCA will need the top refinished. Still have to move them to the basement and out of the kitchen and front room as well! My back hurts as I think of this...
Somehow I just can't leave sets like this if they are awaiting the garbage truck, maybe I need some sort of blinders so I can only look forward and not side to side when driving through the neighborhood on garbage day!
They have no value today except to myself and a few people here, I really can't explain why I cannot say no. Maybe it's the fact I used to repair and sell the things in droves and really enjoyed the tv business back then..
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What the heck happened to the cabinet of your new (old) RCA? I notice the finish is all messed up (you're right; that set will have to be refinished, and probably not just on top). However, the Zenith's cabinet looks like new. What was the difference? I would think that if both sets got rained on (who knows how long they had been sitting there?) the day you picked them up, they both would have had severe finish damage. Maybe Zenith used a better grade of wood in its console TV cabinets (pre-1990 era) than RCA?
The cabinets of today's Zenith consoles (before they quit making them) would have been utterly destroyed by that much rain, as by 1990 Zenith was putting their color sets in pressed-wood cabinets with faux wood grain (not unlike the technique Zenith used with its Depression-era radios; it was called "photo finish" and entailed gluing what amounted to large photographs of wood onto the cabinets). A good rain would likely destroy such a "finish" in almost no time flat.