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This is another one of those Zenith survival stories.

I found this set along with some other junk in the alley this weekend, this makes the 6th vintage Zenith set I've found... It's nice to live in Chicago.

This set was obviously used in somebody's woodshop, since it's FULL of wood chips and sawdust. The chassis if covered with a thick layer, along with everything else inside the sat. It's actually better than a set full of sticky cigarette smoke filled dust, since this stuff can just be brushed off the chassis, as you can see in one picture where I cleaned off a little of the dust. A little time with the shop vac and a paint brush and the inside should look good.

I decided to power it up and see what happened. I got that nice old TV with a big metal chassis degaussing thump (I love that sound), and some static from the speaker. The screen same on with a colored snow raster, I didn't connect an antenna to see if I could get a picture. Still pretty good results for a set in that condition.

I did notice that the "tall red thing" (sorry) behind the flyback was broken from its mounts. Is this something to worry about? There did not seem to be cracks in the case, just where it is screwed into the chassis.

The four tubes were replaced with RCAs and a DuMont sometime in the set's life. From some dates in the set, I believe it was made early in 1973.

The build quality of this set is still classic Zenith, full of steel, this is one heavy TV!

As you can see the set is missing the VHF tuning knobs, if anybody has a picture of the knob, or perhaps the actual know, please let me know.

Stay tuned to see the set cleaned up...