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

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by classicradios

My brother passed away at 44 yrs in excellent health recently and the vintage stuff just didn't seem as important to me at the time.

Jim i am so sorry for your loss......

When stuff like this happens YES YOU DONT CARE ABOUT MUCH ELSE,you wanted to fix it the fastest way you could,you didnt think of the quality going down or anything as you were strucken with sadness

No need to apologise my friend but its good seeing you try to get the set back to good standards

Again i am so sorry for your loss

[classicradios]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Jim i am so sorry for your loss......

When stuff like this happens YES YOU DONT CARE ABOUT MUCH ELSE,you wanted to fix it the fastest way you could,you didnt think of the quality going down or anything as you were strucken with sadness

No need to apologise my friend but its good seeing you try to get the set back to good standards

Again i am so sorry for your loss

Thanks for the kind words, I do have the set working again. Stay tuned...

[classicradios]

Been working hard getting this TV put back together. It's not a '63 original because it has a 25MC33 chassis. I guess now it's a 1965 "Warren" model. I had a spare 25mc33 chassis, bezel, etc.. I pulled from a poor condition, damaged cabinet back in '04. Came out of a Barn and really showed it's age and horrible storage condition. Luckily everything lined up without needing to drill any mounting holes, Even the chassis bolt locations matched! I still have the '63 bezel, convergence board, tuner and misc stuff so if I ever find a 63 chassis I can get it back to 100% original. At least for now it's a '65 roundie and it works and looks great.
Jim

[Glenz75]

That looks fantastic Nice picture too....When grief kicks it really does throw you and affects your thinking/thought processes, don't be too hard on yourself for initally gutting that set and putting a modern chassis inside, and like you said if the original chassis had all those problems and then caught fire, I don't blame you for getting drastic with it. What you've done with it now is great, there's nothing like making a modification that works so well. Cheers Glen