[drh4683]

Went to four estate sales today. Found a 1972 Zenith console at 841 Highland Ave, in Chicago Heights. This was the stereotypical "green carpet" estate sale. Its just a made up term I use which basically means, if you see green carpeting in the living room, odds are there will be a vintage TV in the house some place. And don't ever overlook the living room of course, as thats most likely where it will be!

Ive talked about this with other collectors and they all agreed and notice the same thing. I think 8 out of 10 sales with green carpeted living rooms have had vintage TVs somewhere in the house.

Todays find was a new one for the collection, as it has the 25CC50 chassis, which is still a tube type chassis. Model C4724M, in the early american cabinet. I don't normally find full to the floor consoles like this. This one has the gyro drive tuner. Chassis design is very similar to previous chassis like the 12A12C52. Its all original, including the CRT. I turned it on at the sale and got sound but no picture. Took the back off and someone pulled the regulator tube out and the tuner sheild was laying ontop of the chassis as well as a few screws from what appeared to hold the tuner in place. Looks like the homeowner fiddled with it. The HV door was also open and also had a missing belfuse. So this will be an interesting repair. It looks like the back was not off a million times either judging by basically no wear around the twist tabs.

This was another one of those estate sales where I had to explain why I wanted this TV to the people running the sale. I think I get asked "why do you want it" at almost every single estate sale, unless I know the people running the sale of course. "huh, interesting hobby" is a typical response I hear. I was also informed that TV is switching to digital next year and that this TV wont work. Is that true? I mean, if I tell you that I collect vintage TV's and repair electronics as a hobby, it would make sense that I don't know about the digital switch over..........C'mon folks. This happens way to often to me! I guess they think that if you collect "useless junk TVs" that you are some kind of nut job that doesn't know whats going on in the real world.