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Old 08-06-2012, 08:24 AM
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part two of the zenith pulled out of the barn

well after getting the cabinet all finished ,i have been working on the chassie off and on removing the bad from the good ,and cleaning rust . i guess i will start with the pictures of it before i started .
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Old 08-06-2012, 10:42 AM
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here are more pictures of just trying to remove rust. after useing a toothbrush size wire brush and comprest air , i got down to bare metal . i was really surprized that most all the tube sockets were rust free and clean ,but i still cleaned them all out with a tourch tip cleaner/file and air.but anything that was close to the edge was so rusty and froze up i had to just replace with new like circuit breaker new service switch extr.
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Old 08-07-2012, 07:58 AM
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i thought before i replaced all of the pots / switch's/ circuit breaker/ that i would paint the chassie with rust o leum its the first time i ever had to paint one, but being the rust pits and sanding it down to bare metal i couldnt leave it ,it would just rust again its suppose to be the close's to chrome that you can get out of a can ,but i dont know about that.
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Old 08-07-2012, 08:20 AM
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That is NICE work there!
Are you sure you need to replace all the pots?
I have had a few TVs over the years I found in trash dumps, etc that were rained on snowed on etc.
I was VERY surprised at what did not get ruined. Sometimes just a cleaning with Lube-a-trol did the trick.
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Old 08-07-2012, 08:21 AM
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i was checking all the resisters before i reinstall the flyback and found the one that hv anode had overheated and instead of being 1500 ohm it was now 600ohm, it cooked it self to hafe its value. i have a few question's about that resister that is in series with the hv anode ,i was going over other schematics that have the 21'' crt color roundie most dont seem to have a resister there ,are they trying to slightly drop voltage there, is that the reason it was overheated like that .was there a update in later models that changed it or removed it all together , another thing i noticed is that on the solder joint at one end of the resister were the resister and two other wires connect they had so much solder on it that it made contact with the metal tube socket mounting ,and it looked like there had been alot of trail sparking going on between the mounting and the tube socket ,im assuming that could have contributed to burning that resister.
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Old 08-07-2012, 08:25 AM
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That is NICE work there!
Are you sure you need to replace all the pots?
I have had a few TVs over the years I found in trash dumps, etc that were rained on snowed on etc.
I was VERY surprised at what did not get ruined. Sometimes just a cleaning with Lube-a-trol did the trick.
well the pots are still up in the air i got them to move and was going to try to clean them first but the service switch and the circuit breaker i allready replaced them ,they where bad shape. this time im ahead of the pictures im already finished with the recap and im going to modify the hv cage alittle make it alittle more service freindly .

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Old 08-07-2012, 08:55 AM
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Amazing what a little "Elbow Grease" & careful attention to detail can accomplish...
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Old 08-07-2012, 09:01 AM
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Amazing what a little "Elbow Grease" & careful attention to detail can accomplish...
lets change that to alot of sandpaper and wire brush ha ha [grin ]
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Old 08-07-2012, 09:12 AM
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It looks great. You must have a lot of patience.
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Old 08-07-2012, 11:53 AM
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That is a nice Chassis restoration.
Extremely nice.
I think though I would use semi-gloss black on the
Power Transformer instead.

I just restored a Philco TV and took the "creative license" to paint the Flyback cage a dark gold color.
I kinda like that. My first TV restoration had two heavily rusted chassis's. I spray painted the
Power Supply chassis and brush painted the TV chassis.

I like your before and after photos - amazing how you restored that.

BTW, what model TV is that?

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You must have an excellent ability to look BEYOND the dust, rust, & birdshit & see what a set COULD become...(grin)
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Old 08-07-2012, 12:20 PM
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That is a nice Chassis restoration.
Extremely nice.
I think though I would use semi-gloss black on the
Power Transformer instead.

I just restored a Philco TV and took the "creative license" to paint the Flyback cage a dark gold color.
I kinda like that. My first TV restoration had two heavily rusted chassis's. I spray painted the
Power Supply chassis and brush painted the TV chassis.

I like your before and after photos - amazing how you restored that.

BTW, what model TV is that?

Carl
yeah i was thinking about semigloss ,but when i started looking at what black paints i had at 12:00 at night my choice's were metal flake semigloss or flat black , i didnt think the metal flake would go with the decore l. o. l
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Old 08-07-2012, 12:22 PM
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You must have an excellent ability to look BEYOND the dust, rust, & birdshit & see what a set COULD become...(grin)
oh yeah that comes from working on people's car's for living . [ grin ]
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Old 08-07-2012, 12:54 PM
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awesome job. now get rid of those camel cigarettes. i quit and you can to. keep up the good work.
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Old 08-07-2012, 01:16 PM
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Your painted chassis looks great. What a labor of love you have going on with this set - just amazing all the effort that's gone into this. And actually the original Zenith power transformers that I've seen are very flat black.
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