1959 zenith space command 300

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Jon A.

Someone thought it was a good idea to take all the screws out of the tab wheel for stopping on or skipping channels, I'm lucky the wheel was still there.

I wonder why anyone would do such a thing, since the tuner will not stop or skip without the tabs on the wheel.

If, however, the screws holding the tabs to the wheel are what's missing, you may be able to find replacements for them; that or else you might look around for a junked set that has the wheel intact--tabs, screws and all.

I don't know if you still have analog TV in Canada (here in the US the analog NTSC channels were done away with over five years ago, so now all that's left are digital channels), but if your service is anything like what we have here, you will only need to set the VHF channel selector on your TV to channel 3 or 4 to receive the output from your cable box or OTA converter box. I seem to remember another Canadian VK member (Robb in Toronto, IIRC), however, who said in one of his recent posts that there are still analog TV channels in Canada; the country hasn't mandated that all TV stations switch to digital, as our government did. If you still have analog channels in your area, you can use your Zenith TV as is for OTA reception using an antenna. However, I would think the only analog channels you will receive are the Canadian ones from Halifax; the American stations, if you can get U.S. TV from where you are (I think you are within range of several East Coast cities), are now all digital (as I mentioned above) and cannot be received using unmodified televisions.

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

I wonder why anyone would do such a thing, since the tuner will not stop or skip without the tabs on the wheel.

If, however, the screws holding the tabs to the wheel are what's missing, you may be able to find replacements for them; that or else you might look around for a junked set that has the wheel intact--tabs, screws and all.

I don't know if you still have analog TV in Canada (here in the US the analog NTSC channels were done away with over five years ago, so now all that's left are digital channels), but if your service is anything like what we have here, you will only need to set the VHF channel selector on your TV to channel 3 or 4 to receive the output from your cable box or OTA converter box. I seem to remember another Canadian VK member (Robb in Toronto, IIRC), however, who said in one of his recent posts that there are still analog TV channels in Canada; the country hasn't mandated that all TV stations switch to digital, as our government did. If you still have analog channels in your area, you can use your Zenith TV as is for OTA reception using an antenna. However, I would think the only analog channels you will receive are the Canadian ones from Halifax; the American stations, if you can get U.S. TV from where you are (I think you are within range of several East Coast cities), are now all digital (as I mentioned above) and cannot be received using unmodified televisions.

Actually, the tuner motor will run continuously. Something has to finally catch with whatever friction is available and trip the rocker, or it has to be pushed down manually. A screw from my SC 600X remote kept the wheel in place long enough for testing. Then it slipped and started stopping between channels. I just have to find screws with the proper thread that are about 1/4" long and some lock washers.

The analog channels we get go into the low hundreds, with some gaps in between, as seen on my mother's 2006 20" Toshiba CRT TV. Naturally my TV tuners don't go up that far. We get, or used to get (may have been gone when I hooked up cable to mom's set) something called Peachtree TV, which I think was WTBS. The service came with my cable internet, but I don't use it. Even my mother got sick of the programming quickly and I disconnected it. Being the experimenter that I am, I would prefer to hook up modulators for various video sources and use the tuner that way. Come to think of it, my Philips Color Voice converter outputs on channel 2.

[rca2000]

I have one like this. It was a "shopping find" from some years ago. Cabinet not too good, had rust on top, may be worse now, as it is in the area of my old garage where water was leaking. It DID work somewhat, when I last had it on.