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Originally Posted by marty59
I always look forward to this estate sale thread!
I managed to pick up a 57' Zenith Z300E chassis 17Z22Q with the "Space Commander 200" (with remote!) that I had been interested in for the last few weeks. It's a faux blond wood finish metal cabinet that sits on a wooden pedastal. Has a water mark on the top that's down to the metal..ugh.
Nice folks to talk with and they let me pop off the back. Brightner present but with my checker just being turned on the emission showed signs of increasing, but tracking was down still, but potential! Had not been used in years.. They wanted $125.00 for it! I honestly and politely told them I would give them half but no more and they declined.
So after they were "stuck" with it they emailed me with a counter offer of $75.00....well, I bit. I like the TV and it will be a fun project, I'll have to repaint the cabinet... just match it up as close as possible..It'll look good!
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You had me going for a while with the first sentence of your reply: "I managed to pick up a 57' Zenith ..." The first thing that came to mind was that you had bagged a 57' flat-panel HDTV, but then I saw the chassis number and knew that couldn't possibly be right. The 17Z22Q chassis was designed for the 4:3 aspect ratio and to operate with a standard CRT, decades before there was any such thing as high-definition television in this country. I then looked up the chassis number on Google and found that this chassis had been manufactured by Zenith in the year 1957--as mentioned, several decades before really large-screen televisions (over 30 inches) were even thought of here. The problem was that the apostrophe was placed after the number (57') rather than ahead of it ('57). The former would be used to describe a huge HDTV flat-panel (I've seen them advertised in flyers in my Sunday paper for Best Buy; you'd need a living room the size of Texas to accomodate anything that big--sheeesh....and I thought Montgomery-Ward's "The Montgomery" 3-way console TV/stereo/phono was huge at nine feet long); the latter is used to abbreviate calendar years to two digits.
I also wondered about your statement that you had to repaint the Zenith's cabinet. I had thought the set was in a solid-wood cabinet and couldn't imagine why anyone would want to repaint a blonde (or any other shade) wooden cabinet, although I know it has been done in the past--often with hideous-looking results. Then I read the item description and saw exactly what you were referring to: a Zenith TV in a metal, faux-woodgrain cabinet--the woodgrain having been, yup, you guessed it, painted on. First time I ever saw anything like that. Oh well. The set was resting on a real wood pedestal, so at least part of the cabinet (the lower half) was actual wood. The other thing that should have tipped me off that the finish was painted on was your statement that there was a stain of some sort on top which had gone through to the metal; I could tell you didn't care for that when I saw your comment "ugh" in your post when you were describing the damage to the finish.