CL: Round tube B&W Zenith in sad shape

[radiotvnut]

Found this on CL for $50.

http://bham.craigslist.org/clt/949066019.html

It appears that the CRT is busted and the cabinet is in very rough shape. I'd hate to see the inside.

[Hemingray]

looks like one hell of a task for anyone upto it. Anyone willing to save this one?

[Sandy G]

That poor thing needs words said over it, followed by a decent burial... Think its about beyond hope...And I NEVER say that about a TV...

[zenithfan1]

Yikes! That one hurts my stomach, especially since that is the model I'm looking for. To this one I say R.I.P.

[radiotvnut]

That broken CRT certainly does not help matters any. I'll bet a tube would be expensive if you could even find one. I'd save it if it were in better condition. I'd get WWIII started if I asked my Mother to drive me to pick this up in it's current state.

[Old1625]

The cabinet will take a lot of work, but is probably doable.

The CRT neck had obviously been whacked, and those old monochrome roundies can be tough to find.

These individually are not necessarily insurmountable.

God only knows what the chasses will need. All together this is a nightmare.

At $50 the seller is cooking his garbage.

[radiotvnut]

In reality, the seller should consider himself lucky if someone offers him anything for it, given it's condition.

[David Roper]

It's a 12" set, if i were considering taking it on (I'm not) locating a CRT would be the least of my worries.

[ohohyodafarted]

Hawkeye has a rebuilt 12UP4 for sale if anyone is interested. I gave the dud to Scotty a long time ago because I found a NOS tube for less than it would cost to rebuild it. Eventually Scotty rebuilt it on his own to put into his inventory. I don't know how much he wants. But if you want an excellent crt in your 12" porthole, and if you can spend a fair amount for the crt, I would suggest you contact Scotty.

[dreyfoos]

Oh come on. Where's the can-do spirit? We've all brought home worse than this.

Roger

[7"estatdef]

Dang! Those are the kinda sets I end up with. But I'm finding my time being more valuable as life goes on. But you know that would be the one that you dust off drop a crt in and the dawg gone thing would work!
Terry

[Tony V]

If thiswas close by i would get it. These are the kind i like to restore as i have the skills to do so. I love the challenge of these type of restorations. If they were all easy then it would get boring after awhile. This one has potential in my eyes and these are beautiful sets when restored as several members on here have this particular model.
-Tony

[Hemingray]

Shoulda had my uncle from Saraland/Mobile swing by and pick this up for me.

[John Marinello]

How about a new "wrapper"?

http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/fuo/980767109.html

[Jeffhs]

I like those old TVs too, but I don't have the room for them anymore since I moved to a very small apartment nine years ago. Why oh why did I leave the suburbs and the nice 3-bedroom house with a basement I grew up in? (There is actually an answer to that question, but it is far off-topic for this thread, so I won't go into it.) Every time I see one of those roundie Zeniths (especially the color sets, such as the SC600s) I find myself wondering what it would have looked like in my former home, or here in my apartment for that matter. (I still remember how nice my 23" 1963 Zenith K2739 looked and worked, during the short time I had it in the late '60s-early seventies; gee, I miss that set, especially after all the work I put into it [new tubes, etc.] and considering how great the sound was, with a 6BN6/6BQ5 audio stage and a 6x9 oval speaker.) That's why I collect small table-model antique radios today; they are easier to repair than TVs when they go bad, and the smaller radios don't take up much room. I now have three wood-cased Zenith table radios in my collection that fit in my place very nicely and work well. But I still miss the old days when I had a basement half full of old TVs, including my Zenith K2739 and an Admiral "Microgrid 390" 21" console, not to mention a 21-23" white 1950s Admiral table set and even an Admiral 23" console that I swear had an AM/FM tuner and phonograph as well at one time. The cabinet was big enough and long enough to have housed all three components and several speakers, IIRC, but I guess the set's former owner came within a whisker of gutting the thing by the time I found it. I never did get the TV working. And then there was a 23" Motorola console TV I had until I moved in 1972. That set worked, and well; hated like the dickens to get rid of it, but...(the story of why I had to literally trash all but three of my old TVs in mid-1972 is in another thread).