Bringing up a 1960 Remote Zenith

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Tube TV

The Zenith came up pretty nice. I would be reluctant parting it out. The cabinet looks like it's in really nice shape.

Cool a new tv repair channel to watch. Nice work Electronic M

The cabinet was minty under all the dirt I bought it with...Was.

After filming this week's video I got a copyright flag on that stupid color movie I was using to demonstrate the set. I edited the video down, to avoid the flag but expected it to respawn on the new edit and decided to try and refilm the segment...When I took the set off the furniture dolly the back leg snapped off (including the glue dowels going through it), the front leg all but came off as it's glue failed, and the set fell backwards on to my 1 of 7 known surviving 1957 Motorola 21CT2 color set.... The Motorola was almost unscathed but it scratched 2 big notches out of back of the top veneer... Splintering the veneer and the particle board underneath it such that I can't find all the veneer it lost and have to deal with missing substrate....Needless to say I was livid, and the footage I shot was interesting... There's an unreleased angry edit of the video with the damage.

The kicker to the whole story is about 3 hours later when the original video that before filming I edited down to eliminate the copyright clam got re-uploaded it didn't get the copyright clam so the re-shoot that broke it wasn't even needed. That same night (yesterday) I also had a mysterious new mechanical jam on my Capehart Turnover Changer I'm working on...Some days you can't win.