I was a design engineer at Zenith during the time this set was made (1973-1994). This set does not need the 4 lead cap replacement as this was from the model years before this set was made. The orange Sprauge caps fixed the issue. The bad caps were white from American Radionics. That problem put American Radionics out of business. This set was made in the Springfield, Mo. Plant.
And the dirty secret is Maggy used them too on the T991 IIRC chassis. Had 2 of them cut the neck. Spent 40 yrs at a Zenith shop, sure miss them. LFOD !
@@tomj4506 You are correct. Magnavox used the part as well. Zenith made the mistake of mounting the part on the heat sink of the horizontal output. This hastened the failure.
I had curiosity about the white ceramic plates with row of pins, in the CRT board have one marked as "HOT", exactly what is this? These looks as thick film resistor networks...
@@luizmarxsenjr They're probably hybrid ICs. At least the smaller one. The bigger might be a thick film resistor array, containing the output resistors of the video outputs (they might use thick film technology to make them low inductance).
Can you imagine that the TVs in 1977 he gets it tuned in what's on the right away CNN and you're talking about Joe Biden wow they truly are desperate for viewers
I remember where I lived back then. (Western Pennsylvania) We could barely get One UHF Channel. But some days it would come in good. It used to have some good shows and Movies that weren't on the Networks, Iit was Channel 53. The regular Channels were 2. CBS 4 ABC. 11. NBC and there was the PBS Channel 13,. (Pittsburgh) WQED. for good old Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street!! Sometimes We could pick up Channel 6 from Johnstown,. Rsrely. We had the Big Roof Antenna.
I received this very same tv as a kid for my bedroom. I believe it was a birthday gift. It was a very heavy and well made tv (stood up to alot of kid abuse and never looked any worse for wear). Even the knobs felt solid with alot of positive feel. I am very sure it was purchase at Sears (my Dad bought everything at Sears in those days) and it would have been around ‘77/‘78. It survived, in daily service, until around 1997. One day the picture and audio went dead. By that time, it wasn’t worth spending a dime on and was replaced with a new (nearly the last of the CRT) tv that lasted maybe one quarter the life of the Zenith. I don’t recall the Zenith ever going in for repairs.
Love these TVs I can remember right out of high school working in a TV shop these were all over the place rca xl100 zenith chromacolor board sets nice to hear your voice again shango
Solid state TV chassis scared the crap out of me. The XL100s especially. Much more so than Sony. I was never a pro at any of it but got my feet pretty wet considering.
Zenith seemed to have labor problems everywhere; the unions probably followed them from place to place.. I had to replace the power supplies in a bunch of Mexican-made 1980s monitors because they were smoking up the air in a hospital and once you opened the neat matal case, it was like a giant bird's nest with a slab of fiberglass embedded in it. Not the work of a happy shop .
I have a 19" Chromacolor II, made in 1976. Yes the capacitor was replaced with an orange one. On mine I have noticed that when there is just snow on the screen, the image is rather dim. However it brightens up when there is a signal. Not sure if that was a feature since pulling and reseating the module boards seemed to help with that. Funny, mine starts off with a red picture before the green and blue warm up. Yours starts off blue before the green and red warm up. I think the Chromacolor II was the Zenith of Zenith. What I mean by that is it's a mix of technology new enough to run for decades before requiring service, with enough quality to ensure these sets still work after ~40 years. The system 3's, not as good of a CRT... then of course 1993 came along and Zenith CRT's went to utter crap. I keep my CCII around in part because I think it was the last of the well made Zenith sets. As in, still working 40+ years later with only some basic cleaning done for maintenance.
Good old CC2! I remember unpacking these brand new in '77 and '78! I turned 17 years old in June of 1977, and I started working at the TV repair shop (Active Television and Appliance, Sylvan Lake, MI) in August of '77. I worked there until early 1981, so I saw the last generation of the Chromacolor 2's, and the very first System 3 sets! And in the case of RCA, the XL-100 sets, and the beginning of RCA's next generation after the XL-100, and I can't remember what it was called right now, senior moment!😁 It amazed me way back then, and now, how HEAVY these little Zenith CC2 13" sets are! I have one, was working fine and quit, I have to get around to repairing it one day! Thanks, for the great videos!
It wasn't just Zenith that had the HV cap problem. Magnavox, some RCA's, and Admiral had the same problem. It did seem Zenith got the most attention however. The reason the 13 inch set was so heavy is because it basically had a full 25 inch chassis inside. A few mods for the picture size, but basically a full console in that little set.
i agree.... zenith was an archrival with rca.... which started color tv.... zenith said we will build color tv better than anyone... once the bugs are worked out.... in 1961... zenith cried uncle... and ordered 50,000 color picture tubes.... from... guess who? RCA..... of course.... but the zenith sets were supposedly overengineered........ therefore the small color zeniths just like the big'uns.... but remember the GE portacolor? their big sets were overgrown portacolors.... because they realized that portacolors were so overengineered that they would work well in anything they built...
I had the 1978 model of this exact set for 20 years. Ran it for 1000s of hours for TV, Atari 2600 and my Colecovision. Still worked like new the day I sold it.
My Gripe with these early inline EFL gun zenith tubes is just what you've discovered. The Green gun gets lazy first. Eventually it will start to loose focus, then the drive dies. Beltron seems to do a good job of rejuvenating these - better than my sencore does. Also, they over scan like crazy - especially on the horizontal sweep.
These were my favorite sets to work on. Pull all modules, spray clean contacts. Crimp VERY slightly each connector on the modules. Re- install. Then rap on the metal frame with something to be sure nothing changes :-). AND Yes, orange drop good, if white 4 wire cap we always changed that out.
Great to hear your voice again....I worked for a large company that was "right sizing" as they say. Some got emails telling then they were done, pack up and leave. Sort of like getting your walking papers handed to you under that stall in the restroom. I heard it happened, maybe.....Not a lot of good work gets done during those times, people just give up.
So cool to see Zenith guys commenting here. Our Chromacolor lasted over 10 years. Looking for an old one in good cosmetic shape. Don't even care if it turns on. I just wanna stare at it and pretend. I am so sad.
Cool! I had this same model of Zenith tv when I was a teenager. My dad bought it new, and then he gave it to me in the mid-‘80s. And, yes, it weighed a ton, like 40 or 50 pounds at least. I remember those picture adjustment thumbwheel type controls on the back.
I bought a 19-inch Zenith in 1975. Those plug-in boards were awful. It became a matter of smacking the cabinet at times. My Howard Sams employed brother-in-law tried to work out a solution, but there was nothing that worked. My wife continued to work at Sams for some years, and we bought several sets from the Family Store. My Zenith came from retail. I replaced the Horizontal output transistors more than one using an adequate amount of heat sink compound. I am hooked on your videos. Cheers
Mind numbing, spirit crushing tv programming drivel. My god mate, television really drains my soul. shango you know youre gonna have to buy a super smokeless grill and do some tv EOL's on it.
Brand new when I was working for our local dealer. Just like yesterday to me. You don't see a lot of Zenith most likely because they keep working and the owners want to keep them! Your observation that the H-Out transistor was Toshiba was correct (T Z on it meant it was made for Zenith and is an original part). These types of tuners would have the stationary contact strip warp and we would put a shim behind it to restore a good contact.
Awesome TV! I just picked up a Sony Trinitron KV-8000 and am ready to do a convergence and purity alignment on it. Super scared to break anything. It was manufactured November 1977.
I had one of these. My dad had a tv repair shop and somebody brought it in and ended up not wanting to fix it. My dad fixed it and I had this set for a good 20 years before the power supply failed. Damn good product.
It's incredible that I was born in 09/77, and I've worn out a couple of much newer 13" TVs, one was a Zenith-successor Goldstar. Zenith still has a great picture instead of being dead. Your replacement part had 1975 on your instructions, so maybe the 1977 came with the orange cap.
Thanks for the comment about the screen shrinking when the B+ goes low. That seems to be what's happening with my 1991 Emerson 13" set. Probably a bad cap somewhere inside.
I think many people may say the same about Packard Bell. My only exposure to the brand was crappy compukers from Best Buy in the late 80's into the 90's.
@@milesjoyner Sorry, I don't live anywhere near Michigan. I don't even have the time to make a flight or far drive to Michigan. Thank you for the offer though.
Sure thing. I found mine at an old yard sale years back. Opened her up. Dusted her out and she worked like a champ. I’m sure I’ll find a new home for her tho.
This fits in, because the Video You have of the 1952 Magnavox B&W TV was similar to the 1957 Magnavox My Family had until 1975, they bought what I recall was a 19 inch Zenith Color set much like this one. I remember it quit prematurely during a Huge Thunderstorm that burned it out sometime in the Mid 80s. The Color was nice but I remember the B&W Magnavox having a bigger screen!.
GREAT!!!!!!!! 1977 my Birthday, this TV Set Great U.S made staff!. Auweia Jay Lenno Lebt noch lach , The Holzmichel ;-). Please more Sylvania Sets ;-).
My 2002 JVC 20" TV/VCR Developed an internal tube arc. I took it to a repair shop. It was beyond repair. I didn't know much about electronics then. But I would guess it might have been a similar issue as this. It was around 2007 before I got my first HDTV.
Probably the tube itself. could have replaced the pic tube, but would have cost as much as a new TV. Back when a 19" color set cost $350 -$400 and rebuilt picture tubes were available for $100 it would have been a viable repair.
label at 4:13 says Manufactured Springfield MO USA, so assuming that was the Zenith factory that made this unit. Apparently Bass Pro bought the site when Zenith stopped US production in the '90's
I had those bars with a analog rf modulator, I had to replace a filter cap as the esr was way to high and now it's fine. Maybe you just need to replace a couple of capacitors inside the your Jerry Springer box.
Here endeth the lesson. As instructive and entertaining as ever. Channel surfing with Shango is a riot. "Liquid lunch with John Tobacco" 😒. Nice tv set. Cheers.
Hi, I find this Zenith TV line interesting, it has different components such as kinescope, these orange 4-terminal capacitors, it also has those ceramic plates with a row of terminals that I never knew exactly what they are, looks like thick film resistors. I lived in Paraguay, and I notice that imported a small batch of these dated March 1981 TV sets (color broadcasting from that country began that year), once I got from a friend a 13-inch Zenith television that's almost identical to the yours in the outside, but inside was completely different, I remember it was made up of 3 printed circuit boards mounted on a plastic frame, the fly-back transformer was huge and no longer used high voltage tripler. Unfortunately the TV was in very poor condition, and was hit by an lightning, so the repair was not feasible, but I kept some of its pieces as a souvenir. By the way, unlike yours, this TV I got was made in Mexico, but it seemed to have a little of every place in the world inside... I really liked your TV, congratulations!!!
On those CCII sets the chassis tilts back, hinged at the bottom. Loosen one screw at each side at the bottom, then there should be a bracket to release near the top. Easy to access the trippler and that oil cap. Also a bunch of electrolytics back there on the module sockets.
KCAL is blocked because of some silly carriage dispute between AT&T/DirecTV and CBS. All CBS O&O's are "blocked" on DirecTV and U-Verse. All Nexstar owned stations are blocked as well. There's like close to 200 Nexstar owned stations in the US.
ZENITH had outsourced production to MEXICO in 1980 (100 %), before then, the circuit boards were being made in mexico starting in 1978( boards will have the part number on a sticker, with where it was made, also if there is an "R" number after the part number, that is the repair number 1, 2 ,or 3 after the third repair zenith scrapped the board)
I had the 1975 version 19" and I had the 1972 version maybe 73 they looked exactly the same but one still had 4 vacuum tube in it and the other one was all transistor
We had two of these for customer loaners. Some people liked them so much, They didn't want to return them. The four leaded cap! The HV would shear the neck right off the tube!
Those earlier inline gun Zenith tubes from the late '70's-early '80's were not as durable as the older delta gun tubes and it was usually the green that went first. However, they are still not nearly as bad as the crap from the '90's.
There's more commercials then anything these days it really annoys me when I'm really into a show I'm watching and I'm like I don't care get back to the show I want to see what happens
12voltvids had rebuilt several digital conversion boxes. The digital box's SMPS caps go bad all of the times because of constant use and cheap cap quality. Just a heads up.
REAL "STATIC" and "SNOW" (Video Snow) YEAH 😬! Around 22:22 in the video when the RF - signal goes away! How many YOUNG PEOPLE know about THAT today. NOW we get "BLUE - SCREEN" or some pre-programed frame "NO SIGNAL". (Too much "DIGI" today)! 29:48
the rolling bar might have something to do with the converter box's power supply, if it is a switching supply the Y cap in the supply might be bleeding 60Hz through the aerial port
The Zenith battle against the unfair Japan imports, Wall Street and even the US government is quite a story. They where the last and fought the fight for fair trade to the very end. Many articles about this online. From La itself: www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-21-fi-2170-story.html
Sounds like the same high voltage problem the Philips K9 in Australia. That one cap on the fly back would go open and kill the CRT. The K9 was a 26 inch color Set.
fix it Shango this would be awesome for a retro video game or computer pure RF NICE little old TV for real it was amazing when it was new! I still have the Philco Ford tube 13 inch tube hybrid set from when I was a kid it's modded for composite and RGB and even S video but it's still going and CRT is still strong! It's QUALITY like nothing you will ever find today...
interesting you point out the fact that dust collects on the HV components That explains how ionizers work and why the tube is often covered in caked on dust
Why is it when I auto scan my digital TV for local channels I have a few channels that drop signal over a few days but when I re-scan again they are back?
I was a design engineer at Zenith during the time this set was made (1973-1994). This set does not need the 4 lead cap replacement as this was from the model years before this set was made. The orange Sprauge caps fixed the issue. The bad caps were white from American Radionics. That problem put American Radionics out of business. This set was made in the Springfield, Mo. Plant.
And the dirty secret is Maggy used them too on the T991 IIRC chassis. Had 2 of them cut the neck.
Spent 40 yrs at a Zenith shop, sure miss them.
LFOD !
@@tomj4506 You are correct. Magnavox used the part as well. Zenith made the mistake of mounting the part on the heat sink of the horizontal output. This hastened the failure.
I had curiosity about the white ceramic plates with row of pins, in the CRT board have one marked as "HOT", exactly what is this? These looks as thick film resistor networks...
Wow. Commenters think they’re experts on these sets, but you really are! Yes, it’s hard to beat Sprague caps.
@@luizmarxsenjr They're probably hybrid ICs. At least the smaller one. The bigger might be a thick film resistor array, containing the output resistors of the video outputs (they might use thick film technology to make them low inductance).
Tabacco is smokin, The Zenith ain't broken; Shango is jokin, this line is my token.
Can you imagine that the TVs in 1977 he gets it tuned in what's on the right away CNN and you're talking about Joe Biden wow they truly are desperate for viewers
At 30:31 commercial, "there's a 1 in 4 chance you'll suffer a crippling fall"
Shango, "goooood." Bloody hilarious!
As a kid, I was always fascinated how they merged the letters U-H-F on the VHF channel selector on some TVs.
This one has it!
It was frustruating for me because my parents were too cheap to buy a TV that actually had a UHF dial until 1970. No Speed Racer for me.
All the Zenith sets had this, even where there was enough room to separate the letters.
I remember where I lived back then. (Western Pennsylvania) We could barely get One UHF Channel. But some days it would come in good. It used to have some good shows and Movies that weren't on the Networks, Iit was Channel 53. The regular Channels were 2. CBS
4 ABC. 11. NBC and there was the PBS Channel 13,. (Pittsburgh) WQED. for good old Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street!! Sometimes We could pick up Channel 6 from Johnstown,. Rsrely. We had the Big Roof Antenna.
BETTERWORLD SGT0589
Now we can’t even watch Public Television Broadcasting because is filled with left wing propaganda, funded by our own tax dollars😒
@@KGNYC112 ah yes, left wing propaganda, aka the truth.
I received this very same tv as a kid for my bedroom. I believe it was a birthday gift. It was a very heavy and well made tv (stood up to alot of kid abuse and never looked any worse for wear). Even the knobs felt solid with alot of positive feel. I am very sure it was purchase at Sears (my Dad bought everything at Sears in those days) and it would have been around ‘77/‘78. It survived, in daily service, until around 1997. One day the picture and audio went dead. By that time, it wasn’t worth spending a dime on and was replaced with a new (nearly the last of the CRT) tv that lasted maybe one quarter the life of the Zenith. I don’t recall the Zenith ever going in for repairs.
Back when UHF went up to 83. I remember listening to cell phone calls on the upper UHF channels in the 80s
Very cool
I miss the old days
Please, if I could only go back to 1977, America was such a happier place back them. 1967 would be even better.
Love these TVs I can remember right out of high school working in a TV shop these were all over the place rca xl100 zenith chromacolor board sets nice to hear your voice again shango
Solid state TV chassis scared the crap out of me. The XL100s especially. Much more so than Sony. I was never a pro at any of it but got my feet pretty wet considering.
I was 19 in 1977. What a great year that was!
Springfield, MO - my home town. The plant closed shortly after this TV was made. I recall that there were lots of labor problems at the plant.
I think that after it the plant was moved to Mexico...
In 1992 I believe and lost 1500 jobs there.
Zenith seemed to have labor problems everywhere; the unions probably followed them from place to place.. I had to replace the power supplies in a bunch of Mexican-made 1980s monitors because they were smoking up the air in a hospital and once you opened the neat matal case, it was like a giant bird's nest with a slab of fiberglass embedded in it. Not the work of a happy shop .
I have a 19" Chromacolor II, made in 1976. Yes the capacitor was replaced with an orange one.
On mine I have noticed that when there is just snow on the screen, the image is rather dim. However it brightens up when there is a signal. Not sure if that was a feature since pulling and reseating the module boards seemed to help with that.
Funny, mine starts off with a red picture before the green and blue warm up. Yours starts off blue before the green and red warm up.
I think the Chromacolor II was the Zenith of Zenith.
What I mean by that is it's a mix of technology new enough to run for decades before requiring service, with enough quality to ensure these sets still work after ~40 years. The system 3's, not as good of a CRT... then of course 1993 came along and Zenith CRT's went to utter crap.
I keep my CCII around in part because I think it was the last of the well made Zenith sets. As in, still working 40+ years later with only some basic cleaning done for maintenance.
Good old CC2! I remember unpacking these brand new in '77 and '78! I turned 17 years old in June of 1977, and I started working at the TV repair shop (Active Television and Appliance, Sylvan Lake, MI) in August of '77. I worked there until early 1981, so I saw the last generation of the Chromacolor 2's, and the very first System 3 sets! And in the case of RCA, the XL-100 sets, and the beginning of RCA's next generation after the XL-100, and I can't remember what it was called right now, senior moment!😁 It amazed me way back then, and now, how HEAVY these little Zenith CC2 13" sets are! I have one, was working fine and quit, I have to get around to repairing it one day! Thanks, for the great videos!
Thanks. Brings back memories. I was a TV repairman in Detroit for 25 years and worked on hundreds of these.
I'm always amazed by the quality of Zenith.
ahhh... have to watch it later, but shango066 is talking again, and it's an color picture bulb vintage TV, so he already deserved the thumbs up.
Many early portable colour TVs are very desirable. I particularly loved my 12 inch 1968 Trinitron. Looks quite similar to the Zenith.
It wasn't just Zenith that had the HV cap problem. Magnavox, some RCA's, and Admiral had the same problem. It did seem Zenith got the most attention however. The reason the 13 inch set was so heavy is because it basically had a full 25 inch chassis inside. A few mods for the picture size, but basically a full console in that little set.
i agree.... zenith was an archrival with rca.... which started color tv.... zenith said we will build color tv better than anyone... once the bugs are worked out.... in 1961... zenith cried uncle... and ordered 50,000 color picture tubes.... from... guess who? RCA..... of course.... but the zenith sets were supposedly overengineered........ therefore the small color zeniths just like the big'uns.... but remember the GE portacolor? their big sets were overgrown portacolors.... because they realized that portacolors were so overengineered that they would work well in anything they built...
OMG! I had the identical B&W version of this TV when I was a kid! Brings back a lot of memories!
That is the TV I had in college. 20 years later my kids played their video games on. Heated the basement too.
I had the 1978 model of this exact set for 20 years. Ran it for 1000s of hours for TV, Atari 2600 and my Colecovision. Still worked like new the day I sold it.
i LOVE it when shango watches tv and makes comments or funny noises
Zenith was still pretty popular here in Texas back then too. Great video again.
My Gripe with these early inline EFL gun zenith tubes is just what you've discovered. The Green gun gets lazy first. Eventually it will start to loose focus, then the drive dies. Beltron seems to do a good job of rejuvenating these - better than my sencore does. Also, they over scan like crazy - especially on the horizontal sweep.
These were my favorite sets to work on. Pull all modules, spray clean contacts. Crimp VERY slightly each connector on the modules. Re- install. Then rap on the metal frame with something to be sure nothing changes :-). AND Yes, orange drop good, if white 4 wire cap we always changed that out.
Great to hear your voice again....I worked for a large company that was "right sizing" as they say. Some got emails telling then they were done, pack up and leave. Sort of like getting your walking papers handed to you under that stall in the restroom. I heard it happened, maybe.....Not a lot of good work gets done during those times, people just give up.
Great find! Back in the day a tiny color television was pretty rare, I know that GE was one of the first to market them.
Thanks for sharing shango066.
Looks vintage on the front and kinda modern on the back with that curved plastic. Interesting set. Thanks for the upload
OMG I laughed my head off when you said, “That’s pretty cool, a boat that floats” Hahahaha 😂🤣xxoo
vinyl79 - Exactly 😂 haha
Technology! :D :D :D
Man, a anchor that sink's !
So cool to see Zenith guys commenting here. Our Chromacolor lasted over 10 years. Looking for an old one in good cosmetic shape. Don't even care if it turns on. I just wanna stare at it and pretend. I am so sad.
Also stuff with subtitles works wonders for focus adjustment
Love it when he frames the demo footage to include the controls, because it makes my flat panel look like a giant vintage TV.
Cool! I had this same model of Zenith tv when I was a teenager. My dad bought it new, and then he gave it to me in the mid-‘80s. And, yes, it weighed a ton, like 40 or 50 pounds at least. I remember those picture adjustment thumbwheel type controls on the back.
I bought a 19-inch Zenith in 1975. Those plug-in boards were awful. It became a matter of smacking the cabinet at times. My Howard Sams employed brother-in-law tried to work out a solution, but there was nothing that worked. My wife continued to work at Sams for some years, and we bought several sets from the Family Store. My Zenith came from retail. I replaced the Horizontal output transistors more than one using an adequate amount of heat sink compound. I am hooked on your videos. Cheers
Mind numbing, spirit crushing tv programming drivel. My god mate, television really drains my soul. shango you know youre gonna have to buy a super smokeless grill and do some tv EOL's on it.
Yeah, caps popping like brain synapses collapsing while watching all the mind numbing bilge pouring out of the Jerry Springer box.
Yep. Go down to Arco and pick up some o' that special barbecue sauce.
I only watch broadcast television through the Shango066 CZcams filter
a boat that floats.. that is good, also liked watching the news
I think that set's a winner. I would watch it today no regrets.
Brand new when I was working for our local dealer. Just like yesterday to me. You don't see a lot of Zenith most likely because they keep working and the owners want to keep them! Your observation that the H-Out transistor was Toshiba was correct (T Z on it meant it was made for Zenith and is an original part). These types of tuners would have the stationary contact strip warp and we would put a shim behind it to restore a good contact.
I like the old TV sounds while tuning before you put the Jerry Springer box on it. 👍 😆
I had bought one of these for my parents for Christmas back then. They seemed like extremely well built television receivers for the day.
Awesome TV! I just picked up a Sony Trinitron KV-8000 and am ready to do a convergence and purity alignment on it. Super scared to break anything. It was manufactured November 1977.
Had one of these when I was a kid. I love all the old Zenith stuff. We had a lot because I was born near Chicago.
I had one of these. My dad had a tv repair shop and somebody brought it in and ended up not wanting to fix it. My dad fixed it and I had this set for a good 20 years before the power supply failed. Damn good product.
The picture looks nice now you tweaked the green drive, not a bad set for it's age :-D.
Imagine how great it would have been from new.
It's incredible that I was born in 09/77, and I've worn out a couple of much newer 13" TVs, one was a Zenith-successor Goldstar. Zenith still has a great picture instead of being dead. Your replacement part had 1975 on your instructions, so maybe the 1977 came with the orange cap.
Wow! Vintage TV 1977 Zenith portable!
TV Vintage and VHS will receive to House C-13! I love! Mark the heart! :D
Thanks for the comment about the screen shrinking when the B+ goes low. That seems to be what's happening with my 1991 Emerson 13" set. Probably a bad cap somewhere inside.
I think many people may say the same about Packard Bell. My only exposure to the brand was crappy compukers from Best Buy in the late 80's into the 90's.
and Radio Shack
That's a keeper right there. Probably just needs a demag for that lower right corner.
Beautiful TV. I hope one of these days, I can find myself one of these.
I’m getting rid of mine. Free if you pickup. Michigan
@@milesjoyner Sorry, I don't live anywhere near Michigan. I don't even have the time to make a flight or far drive to Michigan. Thank you for the offer though.
Sure thing. I found mine at an old yard sale years back. Opened her up. Dusted her out and she worked like a champ. I’m sure I’ll find a new home for her tho.
This fits in, because the Video You have of the 1952 Magnavox B&W TV was similar to the 1957 Magnavox My Family had until 1975, they bought what I recall was a 19 inch Zenith Color set much like this one. I remember it quit prematurely during a Huge Thunderstorm that burned it out sometime in the Mid 80s. The Color was nice but I remember the B&W Magnavox having a bigger screen!.
The Master speaks! The TV could have been better centered on the camera, but I still got my shango fix!
Great, always love a TV video and I'm off today so can enjoy right away. 👍
My Mom has a black and white 13". Very Interesting these days ! Thanks for sharing!
How did I miss this video? But glad I found it.
GREAT!!!!!!!! 1977 my Birthday, this TV Set Great U.S made staff!.
Auweia Jay Lenno Lebt noch lach , The Holzmichel ;-). Please more Sylvania Sets ;-).
"She fit in the trunk of a Prius? That's pretty good" ahhhhhh, I missed the shango dark humor.
40 years old and it still works.
Chromacolor 2 were very heavy, because the quality went in before the name went on ! Modular metal chassis :)
My 2002 JVC 20" TV/VCR Developed an internal tube arc. I took it to a repair shop. It was beyond repair. I didn't know much about electronics then. But I would guess it might have been a similar issue as this. It was around 2007 before I got my first HDTV.
Probably the tube itself. could have replaced the pic tube, but would have cost as much as a new TV. Back when a 19" color set cost $350 -$400 and rebuilt picture tubes were available for $100 it would have been a viable repair.
Awesome video as always Shango066!
Thanks shango for an entertaining video!!
label at 4:13 says Manufactured Springfield MO USA, so assuming that was the Zenith factory that made this unit. Apparently Bass Pro bought the site when Zenith stopped US production in the '90's
You are correct. They do catalog sales and shipping there. Also some nitro boats are built there.
The true measure of a man, "the greenness of his broccoli"!
I had those bars with a analog rf modulator, I had to replace a filter cap as the esr was way to high and now it's fine.
Maybe you just need to replace a couple of capacitors inside the your Jerry Springer box.
Here endeth the lesson. As instructive and entertaining as ever. Channel surfing with Shango is a riot. "Liquid lunch with John Tobacco" 😒. Nice tv set. Cheers.
Always liked the Zenith chassis. They were always easy to service.
Hi, I find this Zenith TV line interesting, it has different components such as kinescope, these orange 4-terminal capacitors, it also has those ceramic plates with a row of terminals that I never knew exactly what they are, looks like thick film resistors.
I lived in Paraguay, and I notice that imported a small batch of these dated March 1981 TV sets (color broadcasting from that country began that year), once I got from a friend a 13-inch Zenith television that's almost identical to the yours in the outside, but inside was completely different, I remember it was made up of 3 printed circuit boards mounted on a plastic frame, the fly-back transformer was huge and no longer used high voltage tripler. Unfortunately the TV was in very poor condition, and was hit by an lightning, so the repair was not feasible, but I kept some of its pieces as a souvenir. By the way, unlike yours, this TV I got was made in Mexico, but it seemed to have a little of every place in the world inside...
I really liked your TV, congratulations!!!
On those CCII sets the chassis tilts back, hinged at the bottom. Loosen one screw at each side at the bottom, then there should be a bracket to release near the top. Easy to access the trippler and that oil cap. Also a bunch of electrolytics back there on the module sockets.
What is being seen on this TV is one reason why I got rid of cable. If I can't get it for free out of the air, then I won't watch it.
350 channels and their ain’t nutin on.....
haven't looked at my tv since Easter. rather read a book .
SO glad this video has commentary :)
I agree with shango ,zenith makes good stuff ,stuff about zenith I learn about from Shango and radiotvphononut.thanks.guys
Love it! Wouldn't mind owning one myself.
This is crazy! I was a freshman in high school when this set was made. Damn, I'm old!! lol
Shango just explained quite well why I do not have cable TV....... Ghess...all those channels and nothing worth watching (including the debates...)
Whatz cable TV?🤔
KCAL is blocked because of some silly carriage dispute between AT&T/DirecTV and CBS. All CBS O&O's are "blocked" on DirecTV and U-Verse. All Nexstar owned stations are blocked as well. There's like close to 200 Nexstar owned stations in the US.
ZENITH had outsourced production to MEXICO in 1980 (100 %), before then, the circuit boards were being made in mexico starting in 1978( boards will have the part number on a sticker, with where it was made, also if there is an "R" number after the part number, that is the repair number 1, 2 ,or 3 after the third repair zenith scrapped the board)
glad to see ur back making videos keep up the great work an have a great day
nice set i still have a box full of the replacement caps, triplers and the plug in modules for zenith tv's
I had the 1975 version 19" and I had the 1972 version maybe 73 they looked exactly the same but one still had 4 vacuum tube in it and the other one was all transistor
stepping up, stepping down, stepping off... with Lidia Lunch and Juan Tabasco...
Man, I feel old seeing this "new" Zenith.
We had two of these for customer loaners. Some people liked them so much, They didn't want to return them. The four leaded cap! The HV would shear the neck right off the tube!
Time to Roto-Tweebulate. Gotta love it!
Those earlier inline gun Zenith tubes from the late '70's-early '80's were not as durable as the older delta gun tubes and it was usually the green that went first. However, they are still not nearly as bad as the crap from the '90's.
TV used to be good before 1990. Now there are more channels than ever for endless paid advertising and pharmaceutical commercials.
There's more commercials then anything these days it really annoys me when I'm really into a show I'm watching and I'm like I don't care get back to the show I want to see what happens
Talk to you doctor; there may be a medication to help with your frustration.
@@EstGranoLignum I don't need to be medicated just because I'm annoyed at endless commercials on TV
The 372 listed side effects might make the situation worse though.
@@LakeNipissing see when people have simple medical conditions that's what the first thing the doctors do turn right to prescription drugs
12voltvids had rebuilt several digital conversion boxes. The digital box's SMPS caps go bad all of the times because of constant use and cheap cap quality. Just a heads up.
REAL "STATIC" and "SNOW" (Video Snow) YEAH 😬! Around 22:22 in the video when the RF - signal goes away! How many YOUNG PEOPLE know about THAT today. NOW we get "BLUE - SCREEN" or some pre-programed frame "NO SIGNAL". (Too much "DIGI" today)! 29:48
John Tobacco, he's Smokin...in the Boys Room.
the rolling bar might have something to do with the converter box's power supply, if it is a switching supply the Y cap in the supply might be bleeding 60Hz through the aerial port
The Zenith battle against the unfair Japan imports, Wall Street and even the US government is quite a story. They where the last and fought the fight for fair trade to the very end. Many articles about this online. From La itself: www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-21-fi-2170-story.html
Shango should host a raffle for 3 hours of watching tv with him, with commentary, for a few lucky people
Sounds like the same high voltage problem the Philips K9 in Australia. That one cap on the fly back would go open and kill the CRT. The K9 was a 26 inch color Set.
fix it Shango this would be awesome for a retro video game or computer pure RF NICE little old TV for real it was amazing when it was new! I still have the Philco Ford tube 13 inch tube hybrid set from when I was a kid it's modded for composite and RGB and even S video but it's still going and CRT is still strong! It's QUALITY like nothing you will ever find today...
interesting you point out the fact that dust collects on the HV components
That explains how ionizers work and why the tube is often covered in caked on dust
You said you didn't have many Zeniths in the LA area. they were huge on the east coast.
I get like 50 channels over the air and 99% is total crap. TV was actually better when it was only like 7 channels plus PBS.
i have 2 of these 13" zenith's
Funny the episode of Dateline you turn to at, 24:52 was on Sunday August 5th, is this when the video was recorded??
Why is it when I auto scan my digital TV for local channels I have a few channels that drop signal over a few days but when I re-scan again they are back?
Some screw in Neutral Density filters may help with your camera's shutter blanking during the bright daylight.