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Tellyrescue

03-02-2018 10:50 PM

Zenith 17B20

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Picked up a Zenith 17B20 metal tabletop for happy money :banana:

dieseljeep

03-03-2018 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Tellyrescue (Post 3196891)

Picked up a Zenith 17B20 metal tabletop for happy money :banana:

That's the model that won back the favor of the repair crowd. The 56&57 model upright donut chassis were dogs to work on. :thumbsdn:

zeno	03-04-2018 04:06 PM

Thats the same basic chassis that ran into the '70s & the end of
the tube era. Cant say anything bad abt them. See the thread
a few after this one.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Crist Rigott

03-04-2018 09:23 PM

Looks like a cool project!

old_coot88

03-04-2018 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by zeno (Post 3196947)

Thats the same basic chassis that ran into the '70s & the end of
the tube era. Cant say anything bad abt them.

73 Zeno:smoke:
LFOD !

Most frequent issue seemed to be the buzz/quad adjustments.

Robert Grant

03-05-2018 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Tellyrescue (Post 3196891)

Picked up a Zenith 17B20 metal tabletop for happy money :banana:

Small World!

I may have the same model! Bought it at the 2009 ETF convention. I thought it would replace a 16C21 I had owned as a teenager, which was wonderful for DXing on the low band (saw Spokane on it watching from Detroit).
Alas, my 17B20 does not have the cascode tuner that my other set had, the channel knob broke, and a wire came loose inside when I was trying to fix it. It's been sitting in the basement for eight years.

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