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Originally posted by kc8adu
i have the same model exept the neighbors kids doodled all over the front with permanent markers before they set it on the curb.
all it needed was a couple of filter caps and it sounds better than the bpc they are using.
at least they didnt mess up the dial scale.
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Ouch! That's a shame that those kids had to mark up the front panel of your set as they did. I just saw a pic of one of those radios attached to another post, and it looks very nice with its white front, black and white vertical sliderule dial and all. To deface a radio this nice looking is, IMO, outrageous. This sort of destruction is almost like the guff some kids pull on trash day when they throw rocks at the screen of a TV set on the curb (I've seen sets damaged this way--it's a wonder the kids who pull this aren't hurt badly), or knock the neck off a CRT of a set with the neck exposed (no back cover). The only thing worse than that, again IMO, is for thoughtless kids to take a screwdriver or other sharp instrument and permanently gouge or scratch a nice-looking walnut, cherry or other fine wood cabinet (or punch holes in the speaker grille cloth, often damaging or destroying the speaker when the cone gets punched through). Again, I have seen console TVs and stereos with cabinets disfigured like this, and it makes me cringe every time I see such a thing. I like the warm look of wood furniture; just the thought of such deliberate destruction of, say, a well-made 1950s or earlier vintage Early American walnut radio or TV cabinet makes my heart sink.
Glad to hear, however, that you only had to replace the filters to get your set working again. The radio will probably play for years now; after all, those older Zeniths were made to last. I'd keep a set of replacement tubes around just in case. It's much easier to replace a bad tube than a defective filter cap.
BTW, I can only hope that the kids who marked up the front of that radio did not also do the same thing to the wood cabinet. The C845s, as well as many of Zenith's better table radios of the '50s and early sixties, had very nice walnut or blonde wood cabinets; if marked on with (especially) a permanent marker, the finish, of course, is as permanently disfigured as if the cabinet had been deeply scratched.
Kind regards,