[radotvguy]

Originally Posted by drh4683

Another TV showed up at the estates today. I found this one in Westchester at 1517 Westchester Blvd. Its a 1971 model Zenith B4519W with the 12B13C52 chassis. Another surprize of a find. It was easy to load up, it was brought into the garage for the sale. In fact, the original owners were running the sale. They were moving out of state and selling all of their stuff. I got to speak to the man who bought it new back in 1972 from what he told me. He couldn't remember where he bought it but claimed it was a furniture store in Oak Lawn.
There was also a chromacolor II console next to it in the garage, but someone actually bought it as it matched the furniture in the livingroom. Im sure it will be gutted for an LCD set. Both sets are like new still. I could tell this set was in a clean part of the house all these years. Im sure it was probably in the basement in the later years. Their son was there too and he told me one of the TV's works great, the other one didn't work that great. Ive yet to plug it in, but Im sure the chroma II was the perfect working one. Glad they decided to save it for the sale. I got it for 20 bucks. I was surprized as the son was telling me that the "old zeniths" were made by hand with no printed circuit boards, and that they were the best built TV's. Surprized me to hear that, perhaps he's the one who decided to save this set for the sale as he knew how good they were.

It even has the original zenith 75-300 ohm matching transformer on the antenna terminals.

I have a very similar model from carmine. In fact Chris, this was the kind of set I thought you had when you found the one similar to it. Its amazing how different these sets are though. The one from you was a '74 and is similar in cabinet design, but thats where it ends. This one has the the turret tuner and the gyro UHF tuner. Also has knobs for the auxilary controls as opposed to heat shrink tubing for knobs like the '74 did. The '74 was basically a set made from old parts what was left and was zenith's cheapest set available. Obviously the knobs were used up, so they used the tubing to extend the pot shafts through the control panel to save money. This was still a nice higher end set, granted its 3 years older, much changed in that time period.

I have the exact same Zenith console . Excellent performer too i might add . I didnt even do anything to it , just plugged it in and it worked fine . Mine came from the famous "VAUGHN " in Ny.