Zenith royal R

[newhallone]

Well here is my 53 Zenith royal R on the bench. Recapped it last week and had trouble getting Hv. A little support from Antique Radio forum and I found the problem. A wire under a star washer. Oops. And a picture from tvhistory showing what it looks like. The bottom photo I timed wrong when I clicked the shutter.

[newhallone]

I have about 10.5 kv and the schematic says it should be 14.5. this is the best I could get so far. Any thoughts?

[newhallone]

Weird...my done post didn't show. O well here it is! I know there are some hum bars in the first two pics from the modulator I was using. You can hardly see them. the 3rd pic had a different source. The horizontal line is from the camera but what is the vertical block on the left? You can usually only see it with a dark screen or when they go to black.

[Charlie]

That's a nice little Zenith! And that groovy lamp on the right... that's the bomb!! If I'm not mistaken, I think I've heard the guys say that vert line with the lighter area to the left in the last photo means the horz drive needs to be turned down a just a tad. If I'm wrong, someone speak up. I've got some black and white sets that do the exact same thing.

[leadlike]

drive line, like the above post says. Sometimes you need to trade out the horiz. sweep tubes to get rid of it.

[newhallone]

I will give that a try because it's starting to bug me. The set has been working great otherwise. Tonight we are watching the 3 stooges on it.