Zayre ZM288-S3

[tomdot99]

Zayre? Never heard of them. Is that a US brand?

I grew up in California, so if they never marketed those to the West Coast that would probably explain it. We had plenty of GE TVs and radios out here.

[old_coot88]

One major problem with that genre of GE and Admiral el cheapo sets was somebody jamming the back on without lining up the hole for the H hold shaft, ripping the coil halfway out of the board.

Another was the H oscillator failing to start since it runs off B Boost. If there's not enough juice there to start it, then Boost never comes up. The fix was to run a diode from B+ up to the Boost source, so the osc. starts on B+. When Boost comes up, the diode is reverse-biased so it's essentially out of circuit. Dunno if this particular set would have that quirk or not.

[zeno]

Originally Posted by tomdot99

Zayre? Never heard of them. Is that a US brand?

I grew up in California, so if they never marketed those to the West Coast that would probably explain it. We had plenty of GE TVs and radios out here.

Zayres was mostly a north east department store chain. Bigger than
Woolworths but smaller than Sears. K-Mart is the closest thing. After the war
they were popping up like undead at the morgue. Must have been 20 different
ones within 15 miles of my house over the yrs.

73 Zeno
LFOD !