At long last, a Chromacolor II!

[MRX37]

It's amazing how a bit of serendipity can land you a TV you've been looking for since you heard about it. I saved a Maggie console and found someone on here to take it. And in return I finally got ahold of a 19" Chromacolor II made in June 1976. It works, and has the original rabbit ears intact. very nice cosmetically especially given its age.

It's funny how easily it all played out. The maggie console was two houses down from me, is a decent set from what I've heard, and captainmoody lives not 20 minutes from me and had a CCII that he was happy to give me. Thank you captainmoody!

Interestingly, using two pieces of coax cable and a coax coupler, I was able to connect my DTV box and use this TV's original rabbit ears on it! The DTV box rests perfectly on top. Heh, it's almost like Zenith saw this whole DTV thing coming... Probably first generation coax cable, but it works fine!

Here's a couple pics of it. The camera does not photograph the screen too well...




The retro TV channel seemed more appropriate...


Now for the bad: Well, it's a 34 year old set so I expected quirks. Tuner and pots need some deoxit... and I think I will actually go and get real deoxit this time instead of using WD-40. Um, even tapping the TV slightly causes interference in the picture. If the speaker is playing too loud the picture has interference. Could this just be the dirty tuner?

Other then that the dynamic convergence needs touching up. I'll need to get a test grid up. Wait... this is a delta gun CRT am I right? Are there dynamic convergence controls inside this TV?

EDIT: there are! And there's even a diagram inside the back cover labeling what each convergence pot does. Wow... a TV that was meant to be serviced...