[Adam]

I didn't know there was much interest in consoles from the 60s. I haven't had anything that plays 33 records in a few years, and decided it was time to find something. I wanted to try one of these early solid state Zenith consoles, and had been searching craigslist for a while. Most of what I saw was priced high, $100-$400 range, or was one of those 1970s units that weighs about as much as a hippopotamus and has all that plastic fake woodwork on the front, or both. I had kind of hoped to find one of those ones with the adjustable slats over the speakers and the pop-up reel-to-reel, but when I saw this one which was in a cabinet I liked, looked really clean, was only 50 bucks, and would fit in my back seat, I jumped on it. The guy I bought it from said it belonged to his mother, who bought it new, but hadn't used it in years (likely decades). The record storage compartment was full of old firestone christmas albums still in the original wrapping.

It's good to hear people think it's likely a capacitor, and not a hard to find output transistor causing that problem. It does use that weird vol/balance control. I think the way it works is one knob controls the left, one the right - neither is really a balance control. That screw is missing from the hinge. This model appears to just use these plugs that go in the remote speaker sockets, that short the connection. I've never had much luck fixing record changers, I'll have to see if I can dig up a copy of sams 767. That cat gets in anything and everything I'm working on.

My free time in the summer is almost up, so I won't have time to work on this for a while. I already pulled the chassis on my Philco 39-116 and set it out on my bench along with all the parts I'll need to fix it, so I can get right to it in the winter. So it depends on how fast I can recap and rewire that Philco chassis whether I'll get to this in December, or will have to wait until next summer.