[zenithfan1]

After about 2 weeks and around 40 hours the black Zenith is working great. I totally disassembled the whole set to remove the cigarette smoke and the "oil cataract" from the safety glass. That alcohol trick works wonders for cleaning and rejuvenating that rubber gasket. touch up painted the FEW nicks that it had with automotive paint. I still have to repaint the area around the tuning knob with automotive paint. Detail cleaned everything including the wires, this took 16 hours in it's self. FILTHY! The chassis still has some dirty spots that show up in pictures. I'll clean those in the next few days. The back cover was also filthy, that was tricky to clean. Someone else already tried but with something way too strong and it removed part of the Zenith logo and $ervice $aver chassis, it don't bother me though, things could be worse. Restuffed cans, replaced all the black beauties and white time bombs. Replaced the white plastic cover on the deflection yoke because it was broken around where it clamps to the CRT leaving it loose and moving around. the CRT tested a little weak on the red and green guns, 25 min. at 8 volts brought it back to almost 100%, life test is a full 20 count and equal on all three guns. Color tracking and shorts test were perfect. Put the chassis in last night and hooked up everything, I wired the convergence yoke back together like I did with my avatar. I have to fine tune it to where it needs to be and the I will clip the excess wire. It will be hardly noticeable after that. The set didn't give any problems at all, after minimal adjustments were made the picture was watchable. I haven't done a purity set-up or a dynamic convergence set up yet but the picture still looks good. that will be tonights project. It's kinda funny, after all this I still haven't tested the tubes yet! That also is tonights project. I would have done it the before I tested the set but it was sort of working when I picked it up so I know they were "good enough" It also was around 11 when I was able to power it up so there wasn't time. Sorry there are so many pics but they show the transformation.






The picture was taken before insulating the cap leads with tape.





It has full vertical, this is Tom & Jerry in Cinamascope {letter box}