Zenith film

[Telecolor 3007]

I'm curios if those chassies where relaible as they say.

[zeno]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

I'm curios if those chassies where relaible as they say.

Longest lasting best describes it. Hand wired sets have a massive steel
chassis thats like a heat sink. They almost never dry up like PCB chassis
do. You almost never get bad connections, bad tube sockets etc. As for
reliability they were probably a little better due to running cooler.
Some PCB sets were so bad when old if you pull out the hoz output
tube the socket starts to come out too ! And you cant resolder them
right so you need to use a new socket & wires.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

I'm curios if those chassies where relaible as they say.

I've bought several color Zeniths in the last few years from that era that with all original caps (but some tubes changed) that still produced a watchable picture...Heck even Zenith's first color roundy from 1962 that I got a few years ago was somewhat watchable as found.

Zenith also engineered a lot of tolerance for failure into their tube TVs...They can have several parts bad and still work acceptably (albeit below their as new performance).