Zenith tv - is thisreally a 1962 ?
 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kEGtqtskxlc

What CRT number does it use ?

That seems about right.

Any idea on what CRT it uses ?

Don't know but it's probably a 23".

The model number or chassis number would help us both date the set and determine the right CRT.

Certainly could be from 1962. Certainly not much older (it would have a "pregnant rectangle" with rounded corners and a front safety glass), and not likely much newer (sales of console B&W sets dropped rapidly after about 1968, though a very small number were made in the early eighties).

Your set has a bonded-faceplate CRT, the number will be 23*P4 or 23**P4.

If your video is any indication, you probably don't need a new CRT.


P.S.: I'm thinking this thread belongs in "Rectangular Screen Tube Televisions".

You might be right about the rectangular section , I didn't think of that because in had in my head rectangular meant no tubes , color etc , if someone wants to move the post that's ok but it's not my Video and not my tv , I grew up with a similar set and saw the video on you tube and was just wondering some things about it .

When I was VERY young, the family TV was a 1962 Zenith with a bonded-faceplate tube (I knew it was 1962 because my mother had told me that her parents bought it as a gift, so that my older siblings could watch John Glenn's Earth orbit).

I was a little younger than the TV.

Our 1962 Zenith was dark brown, VHF-only, with the bonded-faceplate tube. The zenith logo was simpler than the one in the video.

I'm leaning toward thinking 1965 would be more likely.

The one in the video does not have UHF so wouldn't a 65 or later automatically have a UHF tuner. .

not that unusual to see one of those that still works.

62 is about right. It has no UHF so its pre March of 64.
Those sets are practically indestructible, probably THE best
set ever built by any, anywhere, at any time. They were built
right into the '70s. The 14N22 chassis was made for 7 yrs. Older
ones were almost the same.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

I had a '63 that used that vhf tuner knob.

It was very common in our area to see a Zenith like that to be equipped with a UHF strip, as many of them had Standard Coil tuners. The UHF kit was easy to install and worked perfectly. It had separate contacts for the UHF antenna, not like the earlier tuners that could use strips, but used the same antenna connections.
The GVG tuner equipped sets always had a continuous UHF tuner. I don't remember UHF strips available for the GVG tuner.

Never noticed but the GVG & SGVG tuners were on "better" sets. Also
the other tuners then probably were not UHF tuner ready. For those that
may not know when you switch to UHF on click tuners you...
1) turn off the VHF osc
2) switch in tuning to make the mixer & RF amp 2 more stages of IF
3) turn on the UHF B+
On UHF you can inject an IF signal into the UHF IF jack to test the VHF
tuner for proper ops on UHF. It was quite common in a Zenith to have
NO or grainy UHF caused by a bad 6HA5. Never made sense for a tube
to run normal at high freqs but not lows !

Here is a great propaganda film from Zenith on early UHF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lu5jqXaHRE

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !