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Originally Posted by Electronic M
That don't sound like a bad deal. The phono belt has probably turned to gunk on the Zenith, clean the gunk off with rubbing alcohol, install new belt and assuming the cart and stylus are good you should be home free.
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That's what I figured, more than likely the belt is what went bad I'll be making a trip over to the antique mall sometime this coming week to check out that old Zenith for the guy and then hopefully I can get that going for him and see if I can get that old Philco from him then. The model that looked closest to the one that I'll be getting (the Philco that is) was the 42-395 which the one I'll hopefully be getting looked to be all original including the original dry-rotted power cord and the original Philco Loctal Tubes. (at least it looked like it had Loctal tubes) anyways the cabinet and bakelite buttons and bezel were still in excellent shape and the original grill cloth was still in good shape yet.
I was given today an old Philco parts chassis complete with its original Loctal and octal tubes along with a coffee can full of old Organ and Radio Tubes including 3 RCA 6BQ5 tubes that still tested excellent yet.