Chinese Cabinet Zenith

[JCFitz]

Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV

That's probably the worst Zenith TV ever, but with the nicest cabinet! I have the manual for it so it is a legitimate factory set, but never saw one in person. I forget the date, but it's early/mid 80s. Curious what that 2x4 is doing in there! Cabinet falling apart? Green CRT looks poor to me. Now THIS is the set that would be OK to turn into a fish tank

But I have to admint it IS rare.

Charles

I have to agree with Charles.I've never worked on that cabinet style but I worked on it's contemporaries.About 84-87 they made that chassis.The picture sucked when they were new and the tubes were short lived.Changed lots of CRTs due to module failures and inadequate protection circuits.Would burn dots in the phosphors.The tubes sucked regardless and the green is probably shot.They were a pain to change as they came with a special gel that mounted between the CRT and lense rather than the fluid couplers everyone else was using.The red and blue were angled and you couldn't reuse it.If you messed up installing it it was shot.And it used a primitive convergence circuit compared to other manufacturers.The only one worse was the previous projection chassis by Zenith.Don't get me started on the ones with the retractable screen from that series.Those were best left with the screen up and the feature disabled they had so many problems