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polaraman,
Ive thought about that too! LOL!! Its funny, I never found space command sets before. Now, if Im lucky enough to find these old sets, they end up being space commands. I just wish I had more room darn it! My collection is so huge, but its filled with sets I really like (such as the space commands) so its hard to let anything go.

As for the CRT in the 59 zenith, I gave it a simple zap with my B+K 440 and it came back to life almost like brand new. Even after a cold start up of the set, the CRT is bright and sharp as new. The remote didnt work, due to an open filament in the 5Y3 on the SC chassis. Tells me the set was plugged in with the chassis active untill the tube finally gave up. Ive run into open filaments on the 5Y3 before in the early SC sets. I havnt done much with the color set yet, but I havnt attempted to zap it. All I did was raise the filaments for about 5 minutes and it helped but still not too good. The philco does actually work. The picture flashed in on me with good color but has very bad horizontal shrink on both sides. So that one needs a check of the horiz. sweep or possibly the power supply. Will keep you updated with the progress.