Is this Zenith worth the effort?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by jstout66

It's a CC2 (you can tell from the tube cap on the back) If you like it, get it. Best picture of any solid-state set of that era. Tom nailed it on common issues. It's either gonna work fine as is, or you may have to reseat the modules. You're gonna have the "re-cap spazzes" chiming in soon. 1) It won't have the "bad" safety cap 2) It's new enough that you will NOT have to recap anything.

You are right most CCIIs that don't need safety caps often have all the caps good, however a small percentage of sets will have a bad resonance cap in the VRT transformer supply, or occasionally a gray tubular lytic fail*...Both cases are rare enough that preventative maintenance is entirely unmerited.

*My flat chassis Avanti had that (100uF 50V under a chroma module) and it caused the screen to be horizontally half in color-half in monochrome.