Trash find Zenith tube console
 

Well, one of my good friends in West Seneca NY from facebook knew that I was into old TVs, and sent me pictures of 3 sets a neighbor was tossing. Two were late 80s sets, then she showed me a pic of what I *thought* was a B&W console.

Turns out it's not. It's color. Hi-Fi, in fact :)

Zenith model 25T2966-1 , chassis 23XC36. It weathered one small rainfall in front of the people's house, then my friend grabbed it for me at my request. Looks undamaged, and is complete with the back.

Me thinks this is up Technicolor's alley :D

I'm out of room and the wife is out of patience. But thanks for thinking of me.

good solid zenith chassis.

Is it missing part of the top knob?

Looks like Christine is fixin' to EAT it...(grin)

Nope, that's the window for the channel display :)

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:D

Have you tried it out to see if it works?

Oh, of course. I did exactly what you're not supposed to do....I plugged it right in to see what would happen :) . Figured if it blew up it wasn't a huge loss, because it's nothing rare and great.

Lights are on, but nobody's home......as in the tubes lit, but no raster or audio. I figured it would need the works anyway. As it stands at the moment, I'm going to be almost out of NON-working sets around here by fall, so I may just redo it, as long as the picture tube tests good :)

Think I've done 4 or 5 complete restos this year already.

Wow, you got lucky finding that.

Nice one Tim, last of the channel knob-window Zeniths. Those tone controls are so COOL on those sets.

What year would this have been? It would have had to have been one of the first rectangulars then....1966 or 67?

You can tell by the letter in the model number: N is 66, X is 67. (I think those knobs were used on the 67)

Isn't it amazing how the grill cloth holds up on those old Zenith consoles?
The Zenith cabinet in my Avatar is 43 years old and the grill cloth is something like a semi shear drapery material. Very thin.

It's a darn good thing too. Ain't any of this stuff around repro, that's for sure.....

Gonna have to test the picture tube, then get it in the basement. I'm getting awfully packed in with sets at the moment. Thing is, all the sets coming in belong to other people....lol. Most of which are done.