Zenith numbers tabs

[zeno]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TV-REPAIR-Ze...item567725653c

Anyone remember these ? Must of been for tuners that used UHF
strips. Ive never seen em.

73 Zeno

[Jon A.]

Those are pretty neat. Of course I have no idea what model(s) they're for, but I do recognize the UHF indicator from my flatty.

Edit: Have another look at the listing. I asked the seller to add photos of both sides of the instruction sheet. I haven't read all of it yet, but it shows a very familiar-looking knob.

[bgadow]

I think I still have a baby food jar full of channel 16's somewhere.

[drh4683]

I can't say that I recognize those either. I looked up the part number in my Zenith parts manual and nothing is listed for 102-9224. But going by the design of the tuning knob from the diagram, it appears to be the tuning knob with the floating channel window as used on the 1959/1960 models. Some of the trapezoidal ones seem quite large though and may not fit that particular knob.

[Kamakiri]

The rectangular strip in the top left corner is what was used in the 19" Zenith Jetliner portables from around 1960.

I have an absolutely beautiful Jetliner in great working condition that needs a tuner. It was used in a stage production in the late 1990s, and part of the play was an argument between two people each cranking the channel knob to their favorite channel. The tuner didn't survive . At the moment I use it on a tuner subber.

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by drh4683

I can't say that I recognize those either. I looked up the part number in my Zenith parts manual and nothing is listed for 102-9224. But going by the design of the tuning knob from the diagram, it appears to be the tuning knob with the floating channel window as used on the 1959/1960 models. Some of the trapezoidal ones seem quite large though and may not fit that particular knob.

They're in my 1968 Zenith Knobs index master table - they give the prefix 102-92 as being indicator tabs, with the channel number being the last two digits of the part number - they only go up to 102-9257, so UHF assignments for the period probably only had channels 14-57 occupied. No data in the "last year" column, but some have SC1, SC3 in the remarks column - Space Command 100/300??? Seem to be universal to Zenith knobs for a set period of time. I recall the first UHF assigned channels using the tabs being on some Hotel/Motel sets - perhaps they were for those sets? We didn't service them, but had a friend's shop that did almost all Hotel/Motel and rental TV repair - he was 50 yards from the beach...