[Jeffhs]

I just looked at the pic of the Zenith SC300 in one of my image viewers. Yup, the set is resting on the top of its cabinet, with the legs straight up, as Anthony noted.

The cabinet definitely needs work, but then again I am not surprised; after all, having been sitting unused in a barn I don't know how long (perhaps years or even decades) it's probably been exposed to all manner of dirt, dust, moisture, animal droppings, etc.

The condition of the chassis may be and probably is questionable. As I said in my last post, this set will need a thorough going-over including recapping, replacement of all weak, shorted or dead tubes and cleaning of the tuner, not to mention all controls. DON'T just plug it in and turn it on right off the bat; this may be and likely will cause more damage to the circuitry (if there is a short or other problem in the set) than there was originally.

Please don't take the foregoing personally. I do not mean to imply that anyone in these forums would do such a thing as I just mentioned; I say this to anyone trying to restore old TVs, radios, phonographs or other electronic gear, out of force of habit.

I didn't see the SC300 hand unit with this TV. If it is missing (as I suspect it is), I don't know if it can be replaced (of course, today's universal infrared remotes will not work with the original Space Command systems, as the latter were ultrasonic systems using mechanical hand units to generate the control signals). I'd try to find a junked SC300 with a good hand unit. The only sets for which ultrasonic remotes might be difficult to find are the very early Zenith b&w remote TVs, which had the original Space Commander ultrasonic remote (the hand unit is black, with the four function buttons mounted in a row across the top of the device).

BTW, the Zenith Flashmatic remote sets can be operated (I think, anyhow) with just an ordinary flashlight set on "flash" mode (the beam can be pulsed on and off with a pushbutton above the on/off switch; many older flashlights were equipped with this switch). I offer this bit of advice in case any of us AKers may have one of these sets in which the original Flashmatic control hand unit is damaged or missing.

BTW (2): Flashmatic was a novel experiment, but it fizzled because the remote receiver had no protection circuits to guard against false triggering by stray light beams hitting the photocells. As it was, any kind of external ambient light (sunlight, for example) hitting one or more of the photocells at the corners of the CRT screen could and often did cause all hell to break loose--the volume would go up and down at random, the tuner would change channels unexpectedly, the set would turn itself on and off at random, etc. Viewers wouldn't stand for that, which is likely why the Flashmatic wasn't all that popular at its inception in 1955, and was pulled off the market after only one or two model years.