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I am SO glad that a good thread on a Zenith of this vintage is here. I was posting before Christmas about finding a metal cabinet Model 5111, but I got sidetracked in going back to work on my 59 Space Command 24" B&W. There is so much good information here, a lot of which leads back to the same old same old, bad capacitors. Right now my Zenith starts smoking when the DC comes in; it's somewhere in the vicinity of the red hot horizontal output tube which I must keep the anode cap off of to eliminate the smoke. I already mentioned this in another thread, so I don't want to seem as if I am stealing the thread. When I get time to get into mine I think that I am simply going the route of pulling the chassis and replacing the paper and electrolytic caps and checking the resistors. I think with this approach I will find the road to a decent set a lot easier because I honestly don't know anywhere near as much about vintage color sets as I do black and white sets. There is a lot going on in an old color TV chassis, but I figure as long as the circuit components are in working order, then I should have a good old Zenith. I don't possess the equipment or the knowledge to worry about producing a perfectly aligned and pure picture, so I hope and pray that nobody has been in there adjusting things that shouldn't be adjusted. Actually, my set has all stock tubes, so I feel that it has been dormant for a VERY long time. I think that the last owner told the guy who gave it to me that it worked fine back in 1980. It's just been asleep too long to bring back to life without major surgery. If I tried to shotgun repair it, I would probably drive myself crazy with all of the problems constantly arising and end up hating the set. I say re-cap is the way to go, on this one anyway.
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