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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Agreed! That sounds like a rare and nice zenith. If I was on the east coast I'd be willing to take it off of your hands. If you take it to the ETF convention in Ohio I'm sure someone(possibly me) will be more than happy to buy it.Please do not scrap that Zenith!
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I really think that I could get it going myself as it is already recapped, but the problem lies deeper than that. I have posted on this before so I sort of hate to go off topic, but anyway the biggest hindrance of repair of this set is simply not having a way to power the chassis to do voltage checks and if I had a scope I would look at waveforms. The big 24" tube does not come out with the chassis, nor does the tuner, so I would either have to build a jig to hold the crt, or make necessary extension leads for the yoke and second anode HV connection; I could just unbolt the tuner and motor. The easiest and best approach would be to get lucky and find one of those small test crts to power the chassis. Anyway, I just didn't have the heart, or lack thereof to bust up the Zenith. With no interest in the set I have made further attempts at finding the problem. I used a megger to check out the vertical output transformer and the choke (while I was already close by) for grounded or open windings. I did a little probing around with a Huntron Solid State Tracker, but that is best used to compare footprints with that of a known good component in a similar or identical circuit. Really, it all boils down to good old signal tracing I think. I may just bite the bullet and build a wooden jig for that crt and get the job done. A low use, big screen 50s set with remote control would be a GREAT daily user I think. Oh, the remote is missing, but I think that they are pretty easy to find.
Thanks for the encouragement!
