Looky what followed me home

[Jon A.]

Part out a Zenith in such good shape? No way man!

[Kamakiri]

The cabinet's been exposed to the elements at some point and the top is bowed and lifting at the edges. It's not as pretty in person. Restorable, yes.

[DaveWM]

besides the obvious (tubes in vert) you should look at the hi meg resistors in the vert circuit, high meg that feed boost voltage. Pin cushion does not look that bad from the pic maybe worse in person. Prob has a 6KT8 tube in the pincushion correction.

if the vert is not jumping around then I would suspect the cathode bypass electro cap (assuming it uses one), maybe the screen decoupling cap on the vert out (screen voltages help here). The film caps used in that era rarely give problems. It prob has a couple of those white ceramic tube caps that are 1600v those i change simply due to the fact that I can't effectively check them.
I think there are two, one in the boost and one in the vert out but not sure of that.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

The cabinet's been exposed to the elements at some point and the top is bowed and lifting at the edges. It's not as pretty in person. Restorable, yes.

The picture shows a blue raster, but it's a B/W set, isn't it?
Zeno mentioned a 14N22 chassis.
I swear, those things were built to last forever.

[Celt]

Originally Posted by Kamakiri

The cabinet's been exposed to the elephants at some point...

Oh my...

[Kamakiri]

Yep, it's just my camera

Chassis is an 14M23Z

[Jon A.]

Oh I see, B&W set. Your call.

[DaveWM]

oh BW I was thinking color as well.

[earlyfilm]

Kamakiri,

On your first picture at:

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...0&d=1381603513

On top of your very nice new Zenith, there is an autotransformer of an older and unusual design. What manufacturer is it?

James.

[Kamakiri]

That's my variac, an Adjust-A-Volt model LR-5

It's only a 5 amp, making it sort of marginal for TV use I'm told, but it was free, and works nicely....

[julianburke]

You sure are lucky. Most of the time you run into a moron who thinks he is the guru of management and says it has to go into the dumpster and is not for sale at any price.

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by julianburke

You sure are lucky. Most of the time you run into a moron who thinks he is the guru of management and says it has to go into the dumpster and is not for sale at any price.

Yeah....Doncha just LOVE those Jack@zzes ?!?