Zenith ccII from an estate sale - Videokarma.org TV - Video

CrtsRtubular · #1 03-27-2020, 07:11 PM

I don't know if I am supposed to post this type of stuff here but whatever.
I got this set at an estate sale a while ago. They must have been zenith people as they had a 90's zenith in the living room, an 80s zenith in the basement and this metal tabletop chromacolor 2 in the bedroom still on the original cart. Also there was an 80s zenith black and white set in the garage. It worked as is and I got it for the grand sum of $24. It has a nice picture but it has an issue with noise in the picture. It was made in 1978 and it still has the original antennas intact.
I had to ditch the cart because it was falling apart. I also got a "mitsuba" color portable tv there. Sorry for the long boring paragraph.

Pic from the sale:

Pic of it now:

Control panel:

Mitsuba:

JohnCT · #2 03-28-2020, 05:09 AM

I remember changing some of those varactor tuner selectors because of noise. BTW, Zenith recommended to never spray the tuner switch with any type of cleaner.

John

Popester · #3 03-29-2020, 09:05 AM

That must of been a highly used set as the CRT looks tired, but adequate for its age. Those tv's really had great pictures for their day.

MRX37 · #4 03-31-2020, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Popester

That must of been a highly used set as the CRT looks tired, but adequate for its age. Those tv's really had great pictures for their day.

Why do you say it looks tired? There's one picture to go by and I'm not seeing any of the usual red flags like color bleeding.

zeno · #5 03-31-2020, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by MRX37

Why do you say it looks tired? There's one picture to go by and I'm not seeing any of the usual red flags like color bleeding.

From the pix the blue looks dominate. Turn the color off & see if the
screen looks bluish. Also the pix lacks snap. Could be all it needs is
a little touch up. In person its easy to tell with experiance, but pixs not so easy.

73 Zeno

LFOD !

Electronic M · #6 03-31-2020, 04:52 PM

I've got a high hours CCII it takes about a minute to reach normal brightness from first light on power up from unplugged, but is still good and bright and easily balanced to correct grayscale...these Zenith CRTs will outlive many of us.

CrtsRtubular · #7 03-31-2020, 07:07 PM

The set warms up fairly quickly and the picture is bright. It seems to have been fairly used and looks a little tired . It does need some touch ups as there are some impurities and I need to try to fix the noisy picture. I'll take a better photo

Popester · #8 03-31-2020, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by MRX37

Why do you say it looks tired? There's one picture to go by and I'm not seeing any of the usual red flags like color bleeding.

I'm just saying that because I remember how good the pictures looked on these sets. The photo looks like the CRT has some soft focusing and like Zeno pointed out the overall cast looks slightly bluish. However completely adequate for now. That's a vintage tv.

Electronic M · #9 04-01-2020, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Popester

I'm just saying that because I remember how good the pictures looked on these sets. The photo looks like the CRT has some soft focusing and like Zeno pointed out the overall cast looks slightly bluish. However completely adequate for now. That's a vintage tv.

Some of the Chromacolor chassis had focus circuit issues....I always blame the focus circuit first and usually find I was right.