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05-29-2013, 07:24 PM
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Trash find Zenith tube console
Well, one of my good friends in West Seneca NY from facebook knew that I was into old TVs, and sent me pictures of 3 sets a neighbor was tossing. Two were late 80s sets, then she showed me a pic of what I *thought* was a B&W console.
Turns out it's not. It's color. Hi-Fi, in fact  Zenith model 25T2966-1 , chassis 23XC36. It weathered one small rainfall in front of the people's house, then my friend grabbed it for me at my request. Looks undamaged, and is complete with the back. Me thinks this is up Technicolor's alley 
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05-29-2013, 07:44 PM
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05-29-2013, 10:19 PM
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Is it missing part of the top knob?
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05-30-2013, 12:21 AM
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05-30-2013, 12:23 AM
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05-30-2013, 04:21 AM
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Have you tried it out to see if it works?
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05-30-2013, 06:01 AM
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Oh, of course. I did exactly what you're not supposed to do....I plugged it right in to see what would happen
. Figured if it blew up it wasn't a huge loss, because it's nothing rare and great.Lights are on, but nobody's home......as in the tubes lit, but no raster or audio. I figured it would need the works anyway. As it stands at the moment, I'm going to be almost out of NON-working sets around here by fall, so I may just redo it, as long as the picture tube tests good Think I've done 4 or 5 complete restos this year already.
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05-30-2013, 12:01 PM
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Wow, you got lucky finding that.
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05-30-2013, 01:33 PM
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Nice one Tim, last of the channel knob-window Zeniths. Those tone controls are so COOL on those sets.
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05-30-2013, 04:29 PM
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What year would this have been? It would have had to have been one of the first rectangulars then....1966 or 67?
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05-31-2013, 09:36 AM
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In 67 the family got a Zenith console. Was in the fall for Red Sox series so may have been a '68 Went to one shaft tuning. T shaped selector with push to ft knob, ft knob doubled as UHF. looked much more modern. I rebuilt a top of line console more like yours abt 1978. It had bass & treble in same place & IIRC motorized tuner but no remote. Great audio & nice pix. Massive maple cabinet, a real knock-out. For exact date use date codes on major parts. For model year use model #. Roundies probably overlapped for a year or two as a cheap model. 73 Zeno
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05-31-2013, 12:45 PM
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How long did Zenith use that one knob design?
IIRC, they were more problematic. The two indicator drums would rub and the teeth would chip on the VHF drum. The next year began the UHF tuner problems. 
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05-31-2013, 01:28 PM
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 I never got ambitious enough to try my theoretical fix: remove the shaft and clean/re-spring the copper grounding "fingers". I thought an intermittent ground on the rotor plates would stop the UHF osc
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