1983 Zenith 19" color Space Command

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Picked up a 1983 Zenith 19" color Space Command today for $5. Cabinet looks to be in very good condition- no scratches. Noticed tape on the door that covers the keypad and customer controls. So, maybe the latch might be no good. Remote works, but keypad on hand unit shows its age. Buttons on remote seem to work fine but markings on many of the buttons are worn off. Might try to repair cosmetics on hand unit but that sits kinda low on my priority list. Plugged it in and it lit up with sound. CRT looks to be excellent. It only took about 30 seconds or so before it came up to full brightness. Really great for a 30 year old set! Sharp focus and perfect gray scale and tracking. Was out in the garage with it so I only had a rabbit ear antenna available. I'm in a generally strong signal area but it appears all the stations around here are broadcasting digital, maybe even the low power UHFs too. Only station I could pick up was a Canadian UHF about 40 miles away or so. Of course the pic had heavy snow and color flashing in and out from such a weak signal. Verdict- looks like everything is working normally. So, probably about all I'll need to do is a recap, maybe touch up a few solder connections, clean all the controls and possibly clean the edge connector contacts. Now for the big question- Does it have the tri focus CRT? I don't have a photofact for it yet. I took the back off and it looks like there is only one focus lead going to the CRT socket. So, I'm kind of guessing it's a conventional focus CRT. The CRT type is 19VMLP22. The model number of the set is SZ1927W, production date 5/83. Guess my 1st task is locating a photofact for it. County Public library used to have a complete inventory of Photofacts but it's no longer there. Going to thumb thru the phone book tomorrow and see if maybe they relocated somewhere else. I was too lazy to get out the camera tonight and take some pics of the before state. Besides, I had no decent signal to feed it.