Look at what happened to my old Zenith.....
 

I traded this set to another VK'er and this is how it is now http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/fud/2347407610.html
I spent 40 hours restoring this set. All it needed to get the color right was a tweak to the burst amp but........oh well! I guess they thought this was a better fix????

wow how irritating. This is why I dont let anything go, at least I havnt yet. If anyone is going to trash it its going to be me.

Mark. I didn't know you were going to get rid of it. I was looking for a roundie Zenith at the time I saw it. Dave.

That is just about the only 60s roundy I would really like to have! What a shame. :tears:

Man, that really sucks, what a waste.

with you on that one.i guess when its yours you can do as you please,but this hurts to see!

Ask if they still have the guts.

How disappointing that the situation turned out this way especially to an upright roundie...

And buy the set and put it back together!

That reminds me of something that a man named Jim Fred used to say about old radios--of which I suspect MANY of us also collect. In maybe 1979 or 80, in his "antique radio corner" column in "elementary electronics magazine--Jim spoke that as collectors we DO have an OBLIGATION to try and preserve as many of the old radios as we can and that we should NEVER "waste on" by "converting it" to a modern solid-state radio, or junking it--unless of course it is " Too far gone to save" in which case it's "heart and soul" should be preserved to save other radios.

I was only about 12-13 when he wrote that, and did not really fully understand what he meant by "we have an obligation to the generations that have not yet been born yet--to preserve these things--or they will NOT ever really know "what was". At the time--digital was JUST beginning to make heavy inroads into electronics, the CD was being perfected, and digital tuning was starting to become common on tv's and radios.

Now, over 30 years later--the same thing applies to OUR tv's radios, stereos and such. As Jim pointed out--"it is yours, and you DO have the "right" to do what you want with it--you SHOULD feel an "obligation" NOT to destroy or "modernize it". This is the way I--and many of us--feel about our stuff.

Jim went as far to say" we should ALSO strive to REPAIR all of our finds too" and many of us have not--but at LEAST--we should try to "house and protect them" until we--or SOMEONE ELSE--WILL restore them to their "former glory."

I always enjoyed Jim Fred's writings. He had his own newsletter, if I remember right, which I subscribed to in the mid-80s when I started collecting. (I was also pretty young) I seem to recall him saying the same thing in one of them.

It hurts to see this happen to the Zenith. I guess I'll leave it at that.

Well, there is an outside chance that the old picture tube failed, like open heater or the vacuum leaked out. Or some such fatal failure, in which case the evildoer decided to reuse the cabinet to hold more modern guts... If it were me, I'd try to keep the tuner functional, say having it feed its IF output signal into the modern guts' IF strip.

And no, I'm not the one.

I've inquired about it a couple weeks ago, the VK'er who shall remain nameless because I'm nice for some reason threw the chassis away and sold the picture tube. I wanted to get the set back as long as the 26KC20 chassis was still around as I have a tube and glass for it. But it just aint worth my trouble as it is. Sad but oh well, that's what happens if you sell or trade something. A lot of this will happen after we're gone so I'll just have to get over it and keep searching for the real early stuff that's worth the time and effort. I simply don't have the resources to spend on this one as it will cost more than the set's worth. I would like to see someone try to save it though, someone much closer than I

Here's what it USED to be like.......http://videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=170055

I really wasn't looking to get rid of it. It was the ONLY thing I had that he was willing to trade me for the '57 Sylvania "the Saratoga" plus some $$ but oops:D I may have let the cat out of the bag on who dunnit.

Not far enough out of the bag, can you give us some more hints? :yes:

Nothing in the rules that say we can ban someone for gutting a TV, shun, curse, practice Voo Doo on, yes, ban no. :D