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Old 07-19-2018, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by dieseljeep View Post
On a related subject, a friend of a neighbor asked if I could help dismantle his old Zenith combination. He wanted to keep the cabinet and the stereo.
It turned out to be a 16Z7C50 chassis. The thing must've been kind of a gem because there was only three circuit tubes and the yoke changed in it's entire lifetime. All the sweep tubes were original.
The original CRT was a different story! The only gun that had a good reading was the red gun. The green didn't have a reading at all and the blue barely moved the needle. I rejuvenated the low guns, but the green is still too low to produce a watchable picture. Too bad, as there is no cataracts or yellow halo.
If I came upon a set like that if I had a beat up TV set with a good example of the same CRT I'd consider donating my junker's CRT to keep the combo alive if that would sway the owner to do so...If something is a truly excellent example sometimes killing a junker for it's benefit is the right thing to do.
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