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Originally Posted by hi_volt
After the Phoenix antique radio swap meet yesterday, I went and picked up this 1965 Zenith Combo "The Strandquist" (who comes up with these names, anyway?). It was complete except for the TV. The set originally came with a remote control color chassis 25MC30. I'm going to install the 25MC33 chassis which I removed from the low-end cabinet that I was trying to sell. Still need a good CRT, though, as this one seems to have open filaments. Also need to re-fabricate the part of the cabinet that the front escutcheon attaches to, as the previous owner cut it up a little so that he could put another TV in it. A bit of work, but worth it.
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That set looks great! I'll be looking forward to seeing a picture of it working. I'm sure it will have an excellent picture if fed by a DVD player, VCR, or a cable box/DTV OTA converter, as all Zenith TVs from the '50s until about the end of the '80s (when Zenith left Chicago for Korea
) were very good sets. I had a Zenith K2739 b&w console years ago that gave me three years of good service, and all I had to do was put in a fresh set of tubes (someone had filched all but two tubes from the chassis when I found it, at the end of the street I grew up on). You should be able to find a schematic for the 25MC33 in Sams.
Zenith often named their TVs after Chicago suburbs, since Chicago is where the company had its headquarters for decades. However, "Strandquist" is a new one on me, unless there was or is a small suburb of Chicago by that name, or even one in northwestern Indiana.
Good luck. You will not be disappointed. As I said, Zenith TVs from the '50s until the company was taken over by LG (Lucky Goldstar) in the '80s were excellent, well-made sets that were built to last, not like today's disposable no-name flat panel TVs.