1950s or '60s vintage Zenith TVs, Need some info

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

But considering I'm coming from a generation where for the most part TVs and radios were considered throw away items and because of that there was no such thing as electronics repair classes in high school or community College, I'd say I'm doing pretty good by getting to the point that I have in electronics repair by myself with the help of these forums and the internet.

What Notime was suggesting is that you're struggling to understanding the fundamentals(small stuff), yet you so desire to fix very complex problems, things that required advanced troubleshooting skills even back in the day. Electronics is simply one of those disciplines that if you don't "learn yourself" the most basic elements, you may never be able to find your own way. There simply is not a canned answer for many of the problems you'll encounter, not even in advanced text books of the past, so you need to become quite well versed in the basics in order to find your own way. The B&K 1076 I mentioned earlier - being it's old, all tube, and quite a complex piece of test equipment, I fear if it has stopped working when you get it, or stops working at some point, you will just have wasted the shipping money on a useless paperweight. No one here is scolding you, but there simply is not a way for any of us to help you advance beyond your own willingness to teach yourself.