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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
A better pic of the set....
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I hope you get many years of use out of this TV, even though it was made in the mid-'80s. Does it still have the original CRT? If it's the original and the tube is getting weak, that could explain the color shift you describe.
I had two Zenith portables in the '80s, both 13" (L1310C with knob tuning, bought new in 1979; three years later, I bought another Zenith 13" with one-knob electronic tuning) and was pleased with both sets. Both lasted well over a decade (the first portable did last 20 years; the second, about 17 or so), and in fact were still working very well when I left them at my former residence in 1999 (moved to an apartment, no room for these sets). Both Zeniths were in plastic cabinets, the older one in a jet-black and faux-chrome cabinet, the newer one in a plastic cabinet with faux wood grain. However, I never had five minutes' worth of trouble with either set; they both had excellent pictures on OTA antenna signals and on cable, the latter with a Jerrold 13-button cable box that gave me something like 37 channels. Don't know what happened to either set after I moved, as I wasn't even present when the house was being cleaned out in preparation for sale (long story and OT), although my best guess is both sets were trashed.
I didn't think about your method of moving your set when I made my last post; however, it is one very good way to move heavy furniture (not necessarily TVs) without damaging it, if you must move it without assistance. I didn't realize, either, that your set has hidden casters under the cabinet. The converted utility cart that houses my video system also has hidden casters, which makes it look a lot nicer in my apartment. I had a larger cabinet, but had to get rid of it when I came here because the TV I had at the time (RCA CTC185 19" table model) wouldn't fit in the cabinet's TV area -- but my VCR fit the top shelf just perfectly....go figure. That particular cabinet had casters in plain view at the base, which I didn't care for once I got here, although I used that cabinet for some years at the other house with two or three different TVs and several VCRs. The last TV to occupy that cabinet was a Zenith Sentry 2 19" table model (1995 vintage), which I still have and which still works great, the last time I tried it. Still has the original CRT, which always amazes me since this set was made within the time frame during which Zenith TVs generally had junk CRTs that would short and take much of the video chain with them after only two years or so. Of course, I didn't use my set that much, only for four years (1995-1999); maybe that has something to do with why the set still works as well as it does today. I wonder how many Sentry 2s are still in use these days, with cable boxes, of course.
10-16-2012, 04:32 PM
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