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Originally Posted by joe111671
If Chester's in Kenosha has one I'll grab it Monday, otherwise I found a NOS one online. Can that regulator tube make the HV excessive and unadjustable if it's bad? I might as well get one of those too if it's a possibility.
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I would replace the HV regulator tube on general principles, especially if the tube now in the TV is the original or hasn't been replaced in some time. It wouldn't surprise me if a new tube cured your problem. Your set dates back to the late 1960s-early '70s; if few or no tubes have been replaced in it since then the originals are all but certainly weak, so it would be a good idea to test all tubes in the set, replacing any showing low or no emission.
Being a Zenith, your TV is one of the best CRT sets made in the analog TV era, so when you get this one working at peak performance you won't be disappointed. I have owned several Zenith televisions and still have one, a 19-inch SMS1917SG table model, which still works as well as it did when it was new (it is now sitting, unused, in my bedroom since being replaced by a flat screen HDTV some years ago).
Good luck. As I said, your Zenith TV is one of the best CRT sets there is, IMHO; you won't be diappointed when you get it working at peak performance. This set should make a darned excellent picture with a cable box or satellite dish (or even with an antenna, if a suitable converter box is used between the set and the antenna). It was a darn shame Zenith went out of business 20+ years ago, as the TVs this company made were, again, some of the best analog CRT sets ever manufactured.
BTW, I like the styling of the cabinet on your Zenith TV. I have a coffee table and two end tables in my apartment with the same style of legs (I believe this style is known as cabriole) as your TV has, and I like them quite a bit.
I hope you will enjoy your Zenith TV for many years to come once you get it working. As I said, these were some of the best televisions ever made; it was a shame Zenith left Chicago and moved to Korea in the 1980s-'90s. We will, unfortunately, never again see this level of quality in TVs or in anything else.