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10-30-2014, 05:46 PM
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what IS this Zenith?!
Does anyone know anything about this odd Zenith? At a glance, it looks like a B&W set but upon further inspection it looks like a color set! I know I got that picture from somewhere on the forum, but I cant remember where or I would just PM whoever had it and the search box yields no results.
By the way, I am talking about the small portable on top of the console. 
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Lebe dein leben für dich selbst **Searching for any all tube or hybrid or color portable sets would consider some early solid state color too** 
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10-30-2014, 06:29 PM
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Nice set, heavy and slightly overbuilt. 
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10-30-2014, 06:43 PM
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Yup 14" Zenith apx 1968. First "portable ?" Zenith color.
Also came in a nicer woodgrain cab with spotlite dials & IIRC AFT. Weighed a TON. Best used in dark room they were not very bright. A nice catch. 73 Zeno 
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10-30-2014, 07:12 PM
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I remember having one of those back in the early 80's, got it at a yard sale and it worked.
Got rid of it after I found out someone had peed in it and corroded a bunch of stuff, plus it stunk.
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10-30-2014, 07:18 PM
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I'm gonna need to find one of these now! :p
I REALLY REALLY like these tube portables from the late 60s!
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10-30-2014, 08:32 PM
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Does anyone on here have a picture of the inside of this set? I'm curious what the chassis looks like! Were these sets good performers and did they have allot of problems breaking down? How un-common are these sets?
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Lebe dein leben für dich selbst **Searching for any all tube or hybrid or color portable sets would consider some early solid state color too** Last edited by josephdaniel; 10-30-2014 at 08:42 PM.
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10-30-2014, 11:29 PM
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Not till a few years later...THEN they had HOT 14" color sets..like the 12A10C15--which LOOKED like it was cold--but only had a FILAMENT tranny, IIRC .After that--they went to a series string hot set...like the 14DC16 or such. After that..came the "Crown jewel " of 13 inch color sets--the SS 13GC10 line. I have NEVER seen a 13" solid state color set made quite like them !!
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10-31-2014, 07:55 AM
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I recall working on one of those 14" Zenith color portable sets, about 35 yrs ago, well built, and seems like it's almost as heavy as a small console! :-) All metal cabinet, and even though I worked for an authorized RCA and Zenith Dealer, I never saw more than two of these little Zenith color portable sets. Much more common, even as bedroom or family room sets back then, as far as older Zenith tube color sets goes, I saw many more of the 19" metal cabinet Zenith color sets, back then. One of these heavy little 14" Zenith color sets would really be fun to have now!
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10-31-2014, 07:59 AM
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seemed to be a little more tube hungry probably due to more heat. But thats hard to tell, we wernt doing them all day like the bigger sets. Not a common set, they were expensive prob $300-$350 when gas was 33 cents. A nice addition to any Zenith collection being a first. 73 Zeno
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10-31-2014, 10:07 PM
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Andy, is there any way that you would be willing to post a photo of the chassis? I am very curious what it looks like
 These late 60s portable tube/hybrid sets seems to have struck a chord with me!
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10-31-2014, 10:42 PM
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I have one--the "other one" with the different knob layout.
Right now--it is in the shed behind my house..buried in there. I TRIED to get it out this summer...but a BIG nest of bumblebees or wasps was not far from it, and there was NO way--to get to it, without tackling that. Soon..that will not be an issue--they should be out o there or dead...I HOPE. I plan to get it out of there--and check it out. It NEVER should have gone in there in the first place !! It DID sort of work--the last time I tried it, after I got it, in about now of 1997. I hope and PRAY...it is still in useable condition.
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10-31-2014, 10:46 PM
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Mostly tubes, a lot dual purpose or compactrons. Think the tuner is tubes.
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11-01-2014, 08:44 AM
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Like this?
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