Found a couple of Zenith's today!

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Went to an estate sale today and picked up a couple Zenith's from the same home. The first find was a 1983 Zenith 25" metal cabinet table set, system 3 of course. One I have been wanting to find for some time since it marks the tail end of the metal cabinet era. In fact, I believe the last metal cabinet table sets were built in 1984. This particular one was built in November of '83. It came with it's original manuals and paperwork too which is always a nice plus. I had to search the house for the remote and finally it turned up in a basket of sewing items in another bedroom. It suffered from the breakdown of the vinyl cladding which results in that horrid sticky cabinet. I had to throw an old sheet over the set before i could even consider carrying it, that's how bad it was. That's easily rectified by wiping the cabinet down with rubbing alcohol so now it's nice and fresh again.

As I was getting ready to take the set from upstairs, the lady running the sale said there is another older TV down in the family room that I could have. I said I'll check it out which I was going to do anyway... Luck again! The family room TV was a 1976 Zenith Chromacolor II console with space command 1000. It looked like it was ready for a photo shoot for the Zenith catalog with that wood paneling and orange carpeting and the rest of the early American decor. A kid working at the sale helped me bring it up to my truck. I had to search the house for the remote for that set too. That ended up being in the dining room.

What's interesting to note is that this particular Chromacolor II does NOT use the typical square tube cap. It uses the conical shaped one. I've never seen this on a vertical chassis CCII before. It still works well. The '83 Zenith got used well though. The CRT is pretty tired, especially the green gun which is unfortunate.

But here they are, safe and sound:

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