Greetings from FixitLand!
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Originally Posted by RitchieMars
While I'm getting things sorted out, I thought I'd take a moment and talk about another interesting feature of my Zenith. It's probably not that uncommon for televisions of this vintage, but it's just something I had never seen before!
This never actually worked the few times that I did turn on my tv, but got the idea of how this worked using a LED light on my keychain. To make it project the numerals properly, I'll have to do some adjusting. It had a type 47 bulb in there, which seems to work when I power it with a 9-volt battery. I never saw it light while in the television, however.
I wonder why it displays the number "25" when turned to channel "13" ... |
Now THAT is interesting! First thing I noticed in your picture is that the channel numbers aren't in numeric order; the same thing is done on my Zenith (K1846R "Stafford", chassis 19K20) which appears to be the previous year version of yours. But that ghost-like number is truly strange. Don't think my set has that feature. But it could be that your set, like mine, has a UHF "strip" in the tuner. On my set, it was installed in place of Channel 3 (so I don't have Channel 3 available!). Perhaps such a thing was done to your set? Very curious! I've gotta check my set a little closer...
Take care,
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J. E. Knox 'The Victor Freak'