Looks very nice Snelson. I need to paint the chassis on my Philco 50T soon. It is in worse condition than yours. You had a LOT of masking to do. Yes, you have lots of patience. Cant wait to see it running.

i know they've been a pain in the but most of my life, i went three yrs without smoking until this artheritis showed up in my spine, and living in pain 24 7 they seem to help with the pain for some reason ,i ask my spinal surgen about that too, he said he's hurd of that but no-one knows why, there a whole artical about that at the govern. cdc web site that talk's about that.

i found if you get that masking tape that has about 50 % less stick sure help's too. some of that tape sick's to good you pull of more than you want. l o l

yeah its kinda a labor of love , and part i can only stay in bed about 3-4 hour's a night , i get up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning working on it , one good thing it nice and quiet then .lol

i have some pictures of the underneath i didnt restuff these can's ,i have a few reasons why the main reason is i want be able to get them easyer pluss there is alot of extra room down here.now the two 1000 volt caps are used ones and are tempary they checked out good but there the only 1000volt ones i have and there in a spot i can easly get at after the chassie back in. i still have a few smaller caps to check or replace i think theres about 5-6 left i havent check yet.the bottom cleaned up pretty good im afraid to tell how i cleaned it was pretty dirty. at the point these pics were taking i havent replaced any of the service switch or circuit breck yet.

Never trust those white tubular caps! I installed a NOS 3KV unit in place of an original 2KV unit in the vertical of a roundy it SHORTED and SMOKED a power resistor! this resistor was on the other side of the vertical transformer primary from the cap, and I count my lucky stars that the resistor blew before the transformer could!

This may or may not help you with your arthritis, but many folks of eastern European dissent who get what seems to be early onset arthritis actually have a solenacious(I can't spell it right :p ) plant allergy. And if they stop eating potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, and other plants in the nightshade family for a prolonged period then the arthritis symptoms go away. My mother and late grandmother on moms side both have that allergy. Mom will, because of cravings, only eat a french fry or two every couple of months and if she has too much she will start to taste the solenine...

do you know you can find a good deal on 1000 volt cap's or more ,iv seen those ones that are 1600volt every once in awhile those id like to get. my degenerative autheritis is kinda complicated , they say iv actually warn the vertabra out, but my disc for the most part are fine i been to three surgens and they all agree . i took a bone scan and the ones that were thin lit up on the mri ,the bones in my neck are calcified but the most pain is in the middle of to the right my scapula will swell from artheritis ,working on cars you make the same movements all the time and your arms are over your head most of the time ,i used to dirt bike alot up north had a few accidents they think i fracktured my neck once ,its hard to say why i got it i guess worked hard played hard .

Painter's tape comes in smooth white and crinkly blue. It is great for this application. It wont leave anything behind if it stays on too long like common masking tape.

your right i used the blue works good for masking no glue residue

yeah i guess you can say that ,eversince i was young ,i had my own mot-o if i cant buy it ill build it ,you wouldnt beleave the things i have built, and something's i have sold now, but you think i was lie-ing to you

here is the other thread charlie ,ill post somemore later i have doing other things havent been able to stay on it.

It's very nice...no, it's amazing...what you have to done to bring this TV back. I can't wait to see it when you get it working again!

:thmbsp: :thmbsp:

i havent been able to stay on it like i want to, i got side tracked on another color roundie deal with a guy on ebay . he was selling this zenith, its already somewhat restored ,he was selling it to raise money for carpenter to build him a bar ,well after i rebuilt about 90% of that tv cabinet i thought what the hech, trade me the zenith and build him a bar, so it took about 3 weeks and his bar was ready. had to replace the crt socket then i was ok , its almost like the one i pulled out of the barn ,alot less crap though. lol i spent alittle time fixing the focus problem & bringing the color back on the zenith ,it had a loose socket on 1v2 tube ,and other small details but the focus is there now ,ill finish the set tomorrow .

ill mess with this zenith while i wait for some caps for the barn zenith.

Dang, that's a real nice bar. :thmbsp: Nice new TV too.