I still think I like my Zeniths better, but for looks this set wins. I'd say this is probably the best looking of all my metal tabletops.
I've noticed that I really do seem to have a preference for late 50s RCA metal tabletops vs. 60s Zenith metal tabletops. I have 5 of the RCAs 56-59, and 7 Zeniths 60-71. No Zeniths older than 60 no RCAs newer than 59.
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Originally Posted by rcaman
im glad you are happy with the tv sets. steve
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These sets are great. The complete rundown on them is as follows:
'75 plastic RCA 5" - vertical shrink, radio works, clock doesn't
'67 Motorola 12" - no vertical
'56 red RCA 8" - no HV
'58 blue RCA 17" - still untested
'65 Zenith 19" - CRT totally gone to air
CTC 9 - It does occasionally go to a blank raster/no sound like you said, although after it warms up for a while it doesn't. I noticed it only happens on the higher frequency vhf channels 7-13 and not 2-6. Both sound and picture trouble means it has to be back in the video IF or the tuner. If the problem was in the IF, the frequency the set's tuned to wouldn't matter, so I'm thinking it's probably a tube in the tuner. It doesn't really seem like a dirty tuner problem, as in shaking the tuner knob doesn't make much difference. The remote works, sort of, the mechanism really does need to be lubricated and the receiver needs to be aligned.