|
Thanks for all of the insightful responses, and so quickly too. I don't think my wife is going to be happy with the idea of yet another project put on hold (let me tell you about my Telefunken, Motorola and two Grundig audio consoles sometime).
Radio63: it really IS in nice shape. I hit with it some Old English tonight after posting and the cabinet looks almost brand new. The grill cloth is still in nice condition too. All the more reason she may want to keep it to modify. I just look at it as taking a really clean vintage car (like the 1950 Packard we used to own) and putting a modern drivetrain under the hood. Even though the darn think smoked and got horrible gas mileage, to me it was just too complete and original to tinker with.
Grimer, my original idea was just that; to take the innards out and store them somewhere in the event we wanted to take it back to original. Once I popped the back off and saw the extent of the CRT (including that part that sticks out into the box on the back) I started to think that this is only a recipe for future disaster. I can't imagine where I would store the chassis and not risk damaging the picture tube somehow.
I would consider a restoration but this would definitely have to be a secondary set since I don't think anyone around here is going to tolerate a steady diet of black and white. I'm old enough to remember our original Zenith back in the 60's with the clunk-n-chunk remote control. I didn't even realize that cartoons were in color until after we upgraded to a newer set.
|