My dad bought the Early American cabinet version of this set. It was our first color tv, delivered in December of '68. The deliveryman told my dad to wait an hour to let it warm up (winter, in Detroit) before plugging it in. When it was turned on, 'Daniel Boone' was on. The first color tv show I had seen. The scene was of an angry crowd with torches, surrounding a moonlit log cabin. Yeah, it was that big of a deal! I even sat thru mom and dad's 60-minute Lawrence Welk torture without heckling because the color was beautiful. Saturday morning's cartoons were awesome!
Such a beautiful set, and with ultra-low hours. Zenith is definitely my all-time favorite brand of televisions. I love the CR7000. This is my first CRT tester... and the restoration functions on it work quite well. My worst case was a near dead Motorola Works in a Drawer. Had to hit it on the extended setting but it bounced back and is holding with excellent emissions.
I saved my customers thousands of dollars over the years by restoring their CRTs when possible instead of replacing them. Often, I could squeeze several extra years of decent life from a CRT using the Sencore revuvenator. It was an art and special skill to use it to best advantage.
As a kid I used to go to my neighbors house every day after school and we would watch American Bandstand on a Zenith Color tv. Later on I went with my dad and we bought a RCA color set in 1968.
I had that same model TV back in 1997 for a few months. One of the tenants in my apartment building moved out and left it in the hallway. I didn't know it was from 1969. It had a good picture but the contrast was a bit too dark.
That looks like a really nice tv you have there. I was really impressed with the quality of the color and most of all the condition it's in. It looks like it just came out of the box.
Consoles are making a come back. Not even kidding here, the demand is impressive. I've had people come into my collectibles store asking for'em. They're charming, wholesome, warm and beautiful. Thanks to HDMI converters, we can watch stuff on it.
Hey... that looks exactly like the model my parents had when I was a kid... wow... I'm getting goosebumps. My mother only bought Zenith when it came to televisions! ;)
Wow, that's all ancient history now. I used to be a Zenith dealer and they were a great company to deal with. Completely honest and they never tried to cheat their dealers or their customers. Those were the days!
I do not know much about tv restoration but i do enjoy watching these types of videos regardless. I have a question however....what is that brownish discoloration(?) encircling the viewing area of the CRT?
That's what's called a 'cataract'. Large picture tubes had a piece of safety glass attached to the front with a gel-like adhesive, which discolors over time.
I have an old Zenith tv similar to yours. Mine has the "tuning fork" remote, "stereo sound" and even has the same yellow ring around the picture tube. It hasn't been turned on in years, it did work fine, except after it was on for about 20 minutes, the sound would cut out.
@dmine45 I can tell you the yellow stain isn't caused from smokers. The old Zenith set I have has that and no one ever smoked around it, been in a smoke free house since it was new. I can't tell you what causes the ring, however.
Honestly, I have tried to find the same UHF transmitter but had no luck. Although I have found the name and everything but they do not sell them anymore which sucks because I wanted to do the same. It is called a Video Sender WV-300.
This is a very nice television. I have watched your videos about picture tube cateract removal, but I'm curious to know about the yellowing around the border of the picture tube. What is the yellowing coloring and what causes that to occur. Gary
That yellow/green discoloration around the edge of the picture tube is the type of cataract you get with Zenith picture tubes. They used a different adhesive to bond the safety glass to the front of the tube.
I noticed when you did the life test you did it before the emission test was finished. You should wait until the emission is finished then perform the life test. Great tv though!
.They used to have free technical support for Sencore owners. If you had a question about how to use their stuff I'd make a free call and talk with with a Sencore tech. They also had free Seminars where they would demonstrate the use of their test gear.
Excellent video. I'm curious though, weren't you concerned about bad capacitors (eletrolytic and paper/wax) when you powered it up? Would it need this service?
I always used the low or auto mode on my older sencore, if it didn't work the first time I'd do it again, I think it's best to use the low settings if possible.
I'm looking for a nice old Zenith record player. The last one I bought had been neglected for too long. Any advice or do you have any for sale? Great video by the way. Very informative.
@pskittle488 None of the big manufacturers were using paper and wax capacitors by 1969, they had already switched over to mylar and ceramic caps by then. The electrolytics can be a problem however, but those aluminum twist cans are quite reliable.
Awesome !! Nice Zenith TV with an Interesting circuit board with all the upright connector pins. That is a very nice CR7000 test set too. That is a delta gun ?
Lol.. :) no worries Doug, just giving you a hard time, I always enjoy your videos. I check a few times a week to see what you got new. Do you have any console stereos from the mid to late 50's era? Have a good week Doug. Mike
@lazimofo90 So true! And so sad that sets like this were--and are being--tossed out by the truckload. That TV''s cabinet styling would look good with any living room furniture ensemble I've ever seen. By contrast the crap that's sold today has all the style of a 99 cent picture frame. Just pathetic. :(
@1972jeepcommando I'm wondering as well. Were the former owners smokers and that's tobacco stains? Or is that some sort of discoloration of the picture tube after 42 years? (BTW, the TV was made the year I was born!)
Your right about zenith televisions there great made. Whats your view on the zenith televisions that had space phone in them . I always thought they where cool . Wish I had one if I had the room for it ,
Well i used to have that same model when I was younger, bought it from a swap meet for $25 so I could play nintendo on back in 1986.. It eventually was replaced by a solid state set which sat on top of this one for years until I ended up junking both in the mid 90's and getting a newer CRT set. Now I have big flatscreens, no need for power hungry, heat generating sets like these anymore. Yes these were good sets but their time has come and gone..
+ElfNet Gaming Big flatscreen sets generate quite a lot of heat, and also use a lot of power. Plus they tend to be quite cheap, which results in them failing before they should. The only advantage the big flatscreen TVs have over the old CRTs is the sheer resolution.
MrMaguire IDK I have an LED based flat screen and it does not generate much heat at all and draws only 65 watts. Older flat screens did make alot of heat and Plasma sets, OMG they were like a furnace! Common failure mode in a flat screen is the power supply caps if your smart and immediately examine and replace the cheap caps with quality ones when you get the set you will not have it fail in 6 month. BUT the normal consumer is not going to do that.... Flat screens MAIN advantage it they have a space advantage over ANY CRT set also, You can put a flat screen set anywhere, on the wall, desk even the ceiling. You cant do that with a CRT without major modification and reinforcement. Even a large flat screen set is more versatile and portable than a CRT set. Of course we can go into the tree hugger advantages of the CRT producing x-rays and emissions crap too but I never believed that was an issue. I like the old CRT sets for some things but none of them can get the new DTV signals and I am NOT a fan of converter boxes.
ElfNet Gaming I'll take all of your points there. I don't think my back can take moving another 32" FD Trinitron, lol. I still prefer CRTs though. I use LCDs for computer monitors and CRTs for everything else.
the sencore tv tester . Can you use that same tester to test the tube of a modern sony crt television set . Just wondering it will work with them . The tubes are all the same right at least for the Trinitron tube
With these older tv sets there is no discharging of the crt right? You can safely just pull off the neck board? I thought I seen older tv's that doesn't have anode cups. Thanks
They weren't kidding when they called this a $ervice $aver Chassis!!! In my time as a TV service tech I saw very few problems with these compared to sets using printed circuits.
Ha!! "Blair Witching". I'm gonna steal that one. I used to say "MTV-ing". That's kinda dated, so it kinda needs a little update there... but then again, oh man I just realized "Blair Witch" is like 20 years ago now. Holy crap I'm traveling through time at the rate of one year every year
where did you get the uhf sender idea i swear i talked to about that maybe 1-2 years ago on maritimes channel in the comment section and where did you get your i had to construct mine
I remember the day I fried my grandad's tv by turning on the switch too fast.. actually I did it twice! Sad days.. then I got a tv from k-mart that later started acting posessed, then my dad gave me his mitsubishi which later broke.. *crt assassin*
My dad bought the Early American cabinet version of this set. It was our first color tv, delivered in December of '68. The deliveryman told my dad to wait an hour to let it warm up (winter, in Detroit) before plugging it in. When it was turned on, 'Daniel Boone' was on. The first color tv show I had seen. The scene was of an angry crowd with torches, surrounding a moonlit log cabin. Yeah, it was that big of a deal! I even sat thru mom and dad's 60-minute Lawrence Welk torture without heckling because the color was beautiful. Saturday morning's cartoons were awesome!
Such a beautiful set, and with ultra-low hours. Zenith is definitely my all-time favorite brand of televisions.
I love the CR7000. This is my first CRT tester... and the restoration functions on it work quite well. My worst case was a near dead Motorola Works in a Drawer. Had to hit it on the extended setting but it bounced back and is holding with excellent emissions.
I saved my customers thousands of dollars over the years by restoring their CRTs when possible instead of replacing them. Often, I could squeeze several extra years of decent life from a CRT using the Sencore revuvenator. It was an art and special skill to use it to best advantage.
As a kid I used to go to my neighbors house every day after school and we would watch American Bandstand on a Zenith Color tv. Later on I went with my dad and we bought a RCA color set in 1968.
its nice to see some one working on the same sets i worked on in the mid 70's keep up the good work
Like the once mighty steel cars that were made in America this strudy reliable televison was also a pioneer of America.
An old tv guy out of joliet area, this brings back some real memories.
I used to fix those many years ago and while they can have a great picture I think I prefer RCA sets. My oldest color tv is an RCA CTC5 from 1957.
After all this years and this still looks great.
I had that same model TV back in 1997 for a few months. One of the tenants in my apartment building moved out and left it in the hallway. I didn't know it was from 1969. It had a good picture but the contrast was a bit too dark.
Pice of dream!!! Beautiful!!!
Why does music sound way cooler through a tv? So nice!
Truly amazing! And with that big speaker and cabinet, the audio sounds great too -- lots of bass.
That looks like a really nice tv you have there. I was really impressed with the quality of the color and most of all the condition it's in. It looks like it just came out of the box.
Another great video Doug. 1969 my favorite year. The good old days.
Consoles are making a come back. Not even kidding here, the demand is impressive. I've had people come into my collectibles store asking for'em. They're charming, wholesome, warm and beautiful. Thanks to HDMI converters, we can watch stuff on it.
Doug has a very professional way of speaking to the camera about what he is documenting about. I love it.
Hey... that looks exactly like the model my parents had when I was a kid... wow... I'm getting goosebumps. My mother only bought Zenith when it came to televisions! ;)
Wow, that's all ancient history now. I used to be a Zenith dealer and they were a great company to deal with. Completely honest and they never tried to cheat their dealers or their customers. Those were the days!
I do not know much about tv restoration but i do enjoy watching these types of videos regardless. I have a question however....what is that brownish discoloration(?) encircling the viewing area of the CRT?
That's what's called a 'cataract'. Large picture tubes had a piece of safety glass attached to the front with a gel-like adhesive, which discolors over time.
i could watch just about anything on this tv and it would be cozy and relaxing! enjoyable :)
That is a nice find. Well worth the buy. I do love them council Tv's.
I have an old Zenith tv similar to yours. Mine has the "tuning fork" remote, "stereo sound" and even has the same yellow ring around the picture tube. It hasn't been turned on in years, it did work fine, except after it was on for about 20 minutes, the sound would cut out.
Thats a great TV, i love when i see something old and in like new condition
I'll also bet the sound on that thing is great too, compared to tv's made in the last 20 years. The wood cabinet makes tv's sound so much better.
OMG, I've not seen one of those chassis in about 30 years!! Think I still have NOS tubes for it too boot!
The days when you had to go on Channel 3 to view something from your VCR. Those were the times...
@dmine45 I can tell you the yellow stain isn't caused from smokers. The old Zenith set I have has that and no one ever smoked around it, been in a smoke free house since it was new. I can't tell you what causes the ring, however.
love how these sets were made.they don't make em like that anymore
I wish the CR7000 had been around back in the '70s. I would love to see it work on a nearly dead crt.
Wow! Nice set! Are you planning to get rid of that yellowing around the outer edges of the tube?
"The quality goes in before the name goes on"
I think my parents had this set in the 70s
Great television doug. You know where the zenth plant in chicago was at right .
I used to have the older model sencore crt tester, used it many times and it worked well. used to work in a repair shop.
Does this set have the cataracts that you have talked about in past videos?
What is that UHF thing? I want something like that so I can use old tv's without video inputs because of the digital tv conversion.
Honestly, I have tried to find the same UHF transmitter but had no luck. Although I have found the name and everything but they do not sell them anymore which sucks because I wanted to do the same. It is called a Video Sender WV-300.
Doug, what causes that green halo around the edge of the screen and can that be corrected?
This is a very nice television. I have watched your videos about picture tube cateract removal, but I'm curious to know about the yellowing around the border of the picture tube. What is the yellowing coloring and what causes that to occur.
Gary
That yellow/green discoloration around the edge of the picture tube is the type of cataract you get with Zenith picture tubes. They used a different adhesive to bond the safety glass to the front of the tube.
Amazing find! Thanks for sharing it!
I noticed when you did the life test you did it before the emission test was finished. You should wait until the emission is finished then perform the life test. Great tv though!
.They used to have free technical support for Sencore owners. If you had a question about how to use their stuff I'd make a free call and talk with with a Sencore tech.
They also had free Seminars where they would demonstrate the use of their test gear.
very nice tv nice tester too :) great video keep up the good work
What causes the dip/curl at the top of the picture?
Excellent video. I'm curious though, weren't you concerned about bad capacitors (eletrolytic and paper/wax) when you powered it up? Would it need this service?
Does that CR7000 have any HR Trinitron CRTs in its master list?
I'm glad I was able to entertain you
I always used the low or auto mode on my older sencore, if it didn't work the first time I'd do it again, I think it's best to use the low settings if possible.
Dude your lucky that you have a Zenith CRT TV :D.
i wish i had a CRT and not a plasma TV :(
I just recently bought a B&K 455 CRT tester, I'm hoping that I'll be able to learn how to use it seeing as it only has one meter.
remember how to fix this set for color burst problems?
Hey that phone on the ground do you have a video on it???
Retro
Awesome TV!!!!
I'm guessing that "waxy yellow build-up" around the screen edges must have something to do with the wearing down of the CRT screen.
Nice big oval speaker in there. A far cry from the tiny 3 inchers in today's flat panel tvs.
I'm looking for a nice old Zenith record player. The last one I bought had been neglected for too long. Any advice or do you have any for sale? Great video by the way. Very informative.
see my zenith space command still works i blew the dust out but some paint of the tube fell on the board will it be a problem
@pskittle488 None of the big manufacturers were using paper and wax capacitors by 1969, they had already switched over to mylar and ceramic caps by then. The electrolytics can be a problem however, but those aluminum twist cans are quite reliable.
Awesome !!
Nice Zenith TV with an Interesting circuit board with all the upright connector pins. That is a very nice CR7000 test set too.
That is a delta gun ?
Not a circuit board. It is all hand wired that Zenith was proud to advertize.
It's a beauty. Is it still possible to get singles through UHF cable connectors on these TVs?
I wonder..if that Sencore was around in those days of old, if more old TV's would still be used to this day.
Lol..
:) no worries Doug, just giving you a hard time, I always enjoy your videos. I check a few times a week to see what you got new. Do you have any console stereos from the mid to late 50's era?
Have a good week Doug.
Mike
@lazimofo90 So true! And so sad that sets like this were--and are being--tossed out by the truckload. That TV''s cabinet styling would look good with any living room furniture ensemble I've ever seen. By contrast the crap that's sold today has all the style of a 99 cent picture frame. Just pathetic. :(
@1972jeepcommando I'm wondering as well. Were the former owners smokers and that's tobacco stains? Or is that some sort of discoloration of the picture tube after 42 years? (BTW, the TV was made the year I was born!)
Your right about zenith televisions there great made. Whats your view on the zenith televisions that had space phone in them . I always thought they where cool . Wish I had one if I had the room for it ,
I love to see that
I don't know that much about such old TVs, but why are the edges yellow, but the TV is supposedly almost brand new?
So for the crt's that used a cap I would imagine you would have to discharge the cap before removing the neck connector?
Can I use parts salvaged from one of these to make a guitar amplifier
this tv is a solid state tuner and an array of compactrons maybe a 1969 model.
Well i used to have that same model when I was younger, bought it from a swap meet for $25 so I could play nintendo on back in 1986.. It eventually was replaced by a solid state set which sat on top of this one for years until I ended up junking both in the mid 90's and getting a newer CRT set. Now I have big flatscreens, no need for power hungry, heat generating sets like these anymore.
Yes these were good sets but their time has come and gone..
+ElfNet Gaming Big flatscreen sets generate quite a lot of heat, and also use a lot of power. Plus they tend to be quite cheap, which results in them failing before they should.
The only advantage the big flatscreen TVs have over the old CRTs is the sheer resolution.
MrMaguire IDK I have an LED based flat screen and it does not generate much heat at all and draws only 65 watts. Older flat screens did make alot of heat and Plasma sets, OMG they were like a furnace!
Common failure mode in a flat screen is the power supply caps if your smart and immediately examine and replace the cheap caps with quality ones when you get the set you will not have it fail in 6 month. BUT the normal consumer is not going to do that....
Flat screens MAIN advantage it they have a space advantage over ANY CRT set also, You can put a flat screen set anywhere, on the wall, desk even the ceiling. You cant do that with a CRT without major modification and reinforcement.
Even a large flat screen set is more versatile and portable than a CRT set.
Of course we can go into the tree hugger advantages of the CRT producing x-rays and emissions crap too but I never believed that was an issue. I like the old CRT sets for some things but none of them can get the new DTV signals and I am NOT a fan of converter boxes.
ElfNet Gaming
I'll take all of your points there. I don't think my back can take moving another 32" FD Trinitron, lol. I still prefer CRTs though.
I use LCDs for computer monitors and CRTs for everything else.
@Turkeydoodlers
Oops! Haha. I screw up my talking alot when Im preoccupied trying to analyze a TV and be a good narrator at the same time.
What about Japanese Tubes, Mitsubishi brand etc, does this analyzer support those tubes aswell or just the ones listed in the manual
What's the green color around of the edges
the sencore tv tester . Can you use that same tester to test the tube of a modern sony crt television set . Just wondering it will work with them . The tubes are all the same right at least for the Trinitron tube
now thats a good television set there not one of those flimsy looking modern lcds like I have
you still making videos?
With these older tv sets there is no discharging of the crt right? You can safely just pull off the neck board? I thought I seen older tv's that doesn't have anode cups.
Thanks
They weren't kidding when they called this a $ervice $aver Chassis!!! In my time as a TV service tech I saw very few problems with these compared to sets using printed circuits.
I will miss you.... static.
That a killer deal for $5. What's that saying? Like finding diamonds at a rummage sale?
Please get a tripod you're blair witching me to death, great video though.
Ha!! "Blair Witching". I'm gonna steal that one.
I used to say "MTV-ing". That's kinda dated, so it kinda needs a little update there... but then again, oh man I just realized "Blair Witch" is like 20 years ago now.
Holy crap I'm traveling through time at the rate of one year every year
very well ,i like zenith tv :)
where did you get the uhf sender idea i swear i talked to about that maybe 1-2 years ago on maritimes channel in the comment section and where did you get your i had to construct mine
and ya while vintage CRT testers have their charm.. getting a late model that has virtually every CRT in a database it way easier.
I remember the day I fried my grandad's tv by turning on the switch too fast.. actually I did it twice! Sad days.. then I got a tv from k-mart that later started acting posessed, then my dad gave me his mitsubishi which later broke.. *crt assassin*
Thanks for the video, but I hope someone has given you a tripod since 2011, this is great but difficult to watch.
What's that yellow around the screen?
Are you the same guy that sells turntables on ebay? Your voice sounds like his.
Excellent tv .In french is not compatible system Pal!
zenith tv sets are easy to fix
❤ television vintage ❤❤❤❤❤eric de France 😃😃😃❤
i have a zenith crt it's small
Actually it's July Doug lol..
LET US WATCH THE STOOGES
CURLY LARRY MOE
i thought it was much newer than a 1869 tv set... :-)
*классный у тебя телик*
That is a nice find. Well worth the buy. I do love them council Tv's.