Jack, Great To Discover Your TH-cam💻Channel📺! After School🏫🚲3pm To 5pm At 11 Go'n On 12 Years Old Was Mentored By A Great Man At His Zenith📺📻Sales & Repair Shop🚐🏪🚲Until Was 17 Years Young! We Took Their Used Radio📻TV'S📺On Trade-In💵New Purchases Zenith TV's📺& Radio's📻! always Tommy🤠
Eventually the console will be taken out of the box for evaluation purposes. For instance it may have not sold because it had (or didn't have) the "Lazy Bones" option wired remote control for TV channel changing (a $30 extra in 1951). Love to see the opening of the console out of the box on a video. It will be like seeing King Tut's tomb being first opened! As Indiana Jones would say, " It belongs in a museum." Nice that it's going to a person who values vintage tube electronics.
Incredible find indeed! But for the New Old Stock crowd, there is a catch.....I could see what appeared to be some bright yellowish-green hue on the plated metal parts. That set will most likely be a cadmium plating nightmare for whoever may actually want to restore/test/enjoy it out of the box one day. The yellowish-green "pollen" you find on the old plated chassis is the cadmium "salts" caused by the plating breaking down. This is hazardous. Being stuck in box causes this to process to speed-up, as the different materials used in the set "off gas" and attack the plating since there is no room for fresh air to help slow this down inside a box....I've seen this many times before on N.O.S. N.I.B. vintage equipment. Just food for thought. Still an amazing piece though.
It's still possible it was just layed on its side and slid out. They could have used it and not long after reboxed. Also maybe they got it cheap after square screens came online and was intending to use as a backup or for the bedroom and never did.
The power cable is still factory tied on the back. Also with the protective tape on the door knobs, I highly doubt it was used. Plus, with how heavy it is, the most practical choice would be cutting the box open, and moving the television off of the pallets.
ah Lucky Goldstar- the company that was the death knell to the American Television industry. Zenith was the last Classic american television maker that was independent. was purchased i think around 1994-1995
We had a tv when I was a kid. It was an old push the button in to switch the channel type of tv . One day it switched channels by itself and the dog went howling into the corner of the room. Have you witnessed a haunted tv? Thanks
So I might need your help. I want to get working again my general electric 1953 vacuum television I’m more familiar with modern day equipment, placing apps and the light. Vacuum television is a whole Nother ballpark for me and I don’t know where to start any advice you could offer.?
Reach out to local radio swap meets if you can, or post photos and location on the Vintage Television Collectors group on Facebook. Lots of guys there from around the US that can work on those sets
I think Shango would like this
When he said “California” and “UShip” I started hoping
@@onefootinthegroove39 I'm curious too
Nah, too old for him.
Wow this is incredible this is probably the only one still left in the world
I am sure that there are others in existence but only ones that have been used.
Yeah that's what i meant@@tedlawrence4189
Jack, thank you for documenting this amazing piece of history for us! Also, congratulations to the new owner on an amazing set!
If I hadn't seen the photos, I would have never believed it
Jack, Great To Discover Your TH-cam💻Channel📺! After School🏫🚲3pm To 5pm At 11 Go'n On 12 Years Old Was Mentored By A Great Man At His Zenith📺📻Sales & Repair Shop🚐🏪🚲Until Was 17 Years Young! We Took Their Used Radio📻TV'S📺On Trade-In💵New Purchases Zenith TV's📺& Radio's📻! always Tommy🤠
That is one slick box.
Eventually the console will be taken out of the box for evaluation purposes. For instance it may have not sold because it
had (or didn't have) the "Lazy Bones" option wired remote control for TV channel changing (a $30 extra in 1951). Love to
see the opening of the console out of the box on a video. It will be like seeing King Tut's tomb being first opened! As Indiana Jones would say, " It belongs in a museum." Nice that it's going to a person who values vintage tube electronics.
Incredible find indeed! But for the New Old Stock crowd, there is a catch.....I could see what appeared to be some bright yellowish-green hue on the plated metal parts. That set will most likely be a cadmium plating nightmare for whoever may actually want to restore/test/enjoy it out of the box one day. The yellowish-green "pollen" you find on the old plated chassis is the cadmium "salts" caused by the plating breaking down. This is hazardous. Being stuck in box causes this to process to speed-up, as the different materials used in the set "off gas" and attack the plating since there is no room for fresh air to help slow this down inside a box....I've seen this many times before on N.O.S. N.I.B. vintage equipment. Just food for thought. Still an amazing piece though.
So frikkin cool!
Wow the box alone should’ve been protected as much as the unit itself.
Awesome find
It's still possible it was just layed on its side and slid out. They could have used it and not long after reboxed. Also maybe they got it cheap after square screens came online and was intending to use as a backup or for the bedroom and never did.
The power cable is still factory tied on the back. Also with the protective tape on the door knobs, I highly doubt it was used. Plus, with how heavy it is, the most practical choice would be cutting the box open, and moving the television off of the pallets.
I would take it out just to get the mold off it, because I feel that could reek havoc on the wood, then put it right back in the box
What a gem
I hope the owner posts a video opening it up and using it
🔥🔥🔥
ah Lucky Goldstar- the company that was the death knell to the American Television industry. Zenith was the last Classic american television maker that was independent. was purchased i think around 1994-1995
We had a tv when I was a kid. It was an old push the button in to switch the channel type of tv . One day it switched channels by itself and the dog went howling into the corner of the room. Have you witnessed a haunted tv? Thanks
I wish I could be so lucky to get a find like that
So I might need your help. I want to get working again my general electric 1953 vacuum television I’m more familiar with modern day equipment, placing apps and the light. Vacuum television is a whole Nother ballpark for me and I don’t know where to start any advice you could offer.?
Reach out to local radio swap meets if you can, or post photos and location on the Vintage Television Collectors group on Facebook. Lots of guys there from around the US that can work on those sets
Did you know that there was a remote that went with that. Or at least you could buy a remote for it? I've seen this model on TH-cam showing it in use.
Hmm. Never saw a 51 porthole set with a remote. If there was it, it would have been hard wired.
Offering a new flat screen for this sealed tv from 51... meby 20 new 100 inch tvs...
It's so terrible that we can't see it.