Look at what happened to my old Zenith.....

[zenithfan1]

I traded this set to another VK'er and this is how it is now http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/fud/2347407610.html
I spent 40 hours restoring this set. All it needed to get the color right was a tweak to the burst amp but........oh well! I guess they thought this was a better fix????

[ctc17]

wow how irritating. This is why I dont let anything go, at least I havnt yet. If anyone is going to trash it its going to be me.

[dieseljeep]

Mark. I didn't know you were going to get rid of it. I was looking for a roundie Zenith at the time I saw it. Dave.

[zenithfan1]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Mark. I didn't know you were going to get rid of it. I was looking for a roundie Zenith at the time I saw it. Dave.

I really wasn't looking to get rid of it. It was the ONLY thing I had that he was willing to trade me for the '57 Sylvania "the Saratoga" plus some $$ but oops I may have let the cat out of the bag on who dunnit.

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by zenithfan1

oops I may have let the cat out of the bag on who dunnit.

Not far enough out of the bag, can you give us some more hints?

Nothing in the rules that say we can ban someone for gutting a TV, shun, curse, practice Voo Doo on, yes, ban no.

[David Roper]

That is just about the only 60s roundy I would really like to have! What a shame.

[Spinning Head]

Man, that really sucks, what a waste.

[sampson159]

with you on that one.i guess when its yours you can do as you please,but this hurts to see!

[John Marinello]

Ask if they still have the guts.

[marty59]

How disappointing that the situation turned out this way especially to an upright roundie...

[marty59]

Originally Posted by John Marinello

Ask if they still have the guts.

And buy the set and put it back together!

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by John Marinello

Ask if they still have the guts.

It took a lot of guts to pull off that stunt.

[JB5pro]

I am surprised and appalled that a member here could make such a poor choice in destoying something so very special but I am being nice too to not care who it is.
I called the current seller who seems very nice and told him someone may want to buy it to put guts back in it. He said the guy he got it from was looking for the guts too? He also said it was used in some movie? Perhaps the member here that bought it had to get it working for some film production?
I am mostly surprised and disappointed he was not thinking well enough to save the chassis. Does not make any sense. I hope someone got the CRT as reported.

[rca2000]

Originally Posted by sampson159

with you on that one.i guess when its yours you can do as you please,but this hurts to see!

That reminds me of something that a man named Jim Fred used to say about old radios--of which I suspect MANY of us also collect. In maybe 1979 or 80, in his "antique radio corner" column in "elementary electronics magazine--Jim spoke that as collectors we DO have an OBLIGATION to try and preserve as many of the old radios as we can and that we should NEVER "waste on" by "converting it" to a modern solid-state radio, or junking it--unless of course it is " Too far gone to save" in which case it's "heart and soul" should be preserved to save other radios.

I was only about 12-13 when he wrote that, and did not really fully understand what he meant by "we have an obligation to the generations that have not yet been born yet--to preserve these things--or they will NOT ever really know "what was". At the time--digital was JUST beginning to make heavy inroads into electronics, the CD was being perfected, and digital tuning was starting to become common on tv's and radios.

Now, over 30 years later--the same thing applies to OUR tv's radios, stereos and such. As Jim pointed out--"it is yours, and you DO have the "right" to do what you want with it--you SHOULD feel an "obligation" NOT to destroy or "modernize it". This is the way I--and many of us--feel about our stuff.

Jim went as far to say" we should ALSO strive to REPAIR all of our finds too" and many of us have not--but at LEAST--we should try to "house and protect them" until we--or SOMEONE ELSE--WILL restore them to their "former glory."

[Pete Deksnis]

Originally Posted by rca2000

That reminds me of something that a man named Jim Fred used to say about old radios--

I was catching up with this thread and read how Jim Fred's antique radio column in *Elementary Electronics* was remembered by at least two of you after more than 35 years.

I was Technical Editor of *Elementary Electronics* back when Jim Fred wrote his columns.

He had written a modest article about the hobby that caught fire with a contingent of our readers. I got flooded with positive mail from enthusiastic readers. It was clear from my own passion for preserving a CT-100 that an important subset of our readers were vintage radio enthusiasts, and so we hired Jim as a regular columnist.

Elementary Electronics folded some years after I left to join TAB BOOKS, but not Jim's column; it was picked up by Larry Steckler at *Radio-Electronics* where Jim's love of collecting lived on.

Pete