[drh4683]

The guy delivered the set to me yesterday, and was pleased with the appearance. Basically, the steel cabinet is mint, no dents or scraches anywhere. On ebay he said it had scraches. None to be seen, so that was a huge plus. I was a bit scared when he handed me the chassis sticker off the high voltage cage, this told me he was inside the tv messing around. After he told me all about his other old sets, I knew he must have tried to work on this one but gave up and sold it. Yes, it didnt work when I got it. Had a bad focus problem. The 1v2 was missing from its socket, and the socket was pretty well burnt up. This was the second socket, as this one had bad soilder connections and you could tell someone cut the rivits off the hv cage to remove the old one. After putting a new 1v2 in, the socket started glowing red with smoke. Put in a new socket, new 1v2 and we have good picture! The 21FBP22 tested basically like new. I didnt need to mess with the bias control, each color gun was strong. Only thing left to do was get a color to come in. The 6JU8 in the zeniths is a common fault for color loss. Most tubes were original zenith, only needed to replace some of the color tubes. Anyone know why these focus sockets burn up? This is the 3rd socket in this set. Solder connection are good now, and I read 4 kv off the heater, so I know its working fine.
Here are the pics of the set displaying color bars.