1970 Zenith Space Command 300 Tube Color Remote Table Top Television Set

hybrid portable table tv set
keeping the quality inside:
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[@channelsixtysix066]

You have to keep reminding yourself, this Zenith is not 25 years old, 40 years old ... it is a 52 year old set. Very impressive engineering for it to last this long.

[@rsattahip]

From the greatest WW2 generation.

[@pantherplatform]

The salad I ate last night was 52 years old...

[@elektrokinesis4150]

and in a few years my solid state Sony will be the same age

[@chetpomeroy1399]

I remember when sets like these were new. They were *definitely* for people who could afford them!!

[@craigharrison1274]

Why shouldn't it last so long?

[@dontknowbrian]

If you made an 18 hour video, I’d watch every second of it just because you’re so entertaining! Love all your videos, your humor and your smarts to fixing the stuff you share with us. Thank you for all your hard work and sharing part of your life with us!

[@killershabgaming1107]

@@greggaieck4808 ...... Ha.

[@kennethmarsalek4547]

Try some contact cleaner in it to clean it

[@dontknowbrian]

@@kennethmarsalek4547 I think the Cobwebs and filth makes the circuits work better. ie: dancing spider blowing and b the breeze

[@kennethmarsalek4547]

@@dontknowbrianwell I use to find an old TV console it worked real well turned it on not even 30 seconds later this TV caught on fire by the time I saw smoke it was too late I was really butt hurt this lady never used her TV in ages it sat in a closet I don't know how long this house filthy and dirty it took 6weeks to clean out an old house the stench was so bad I don't know how People live like that that is totally insane how much trash that was in the house but it was a good TV until it caught on fire

[@pzftw]

I figure if you took the trouble to go back and fix the smoked coil at the end, the least I can do is watch the entire video. I can't recall many shango66 videos that don't leave me with a sense of completeness and satisfaction. The people that don't watch these videos to the end are missing out, including the house repair videos.

[@d.c.hammond130]

This is one of my favorite editions on this channel. I'm not usually a 3% because my connection is only the Zenith and RCA editions. Mister Stone also rapped during his trouble shooting and made up names for brands he hated.

[@krz8888888]

Yeah he just doesn't give up

[@trevorhaddox6884]

But he didn't fix the red convergance after fixing that. It's not twerkosquirculating perfectly. My OCD is going to make me discombobulate. XD

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

What a gorgeous set! I wish we still had analog stations!

[@JohnnyUmphress]

I wish we had AM radio where I live in Arkansas. There are no stations within my home area. And me being an avid radio restorer.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

@@JohnnyUmphress Have you ever tried a long random wire well above the ground with a ground connection? Or a long long random wire layed on the ground? I'm curious. Sorry you don't have a few great AM stations to play on your radios. Maybe you could get an FCC license and put up something you could afford possibly with some network or syndicated material with time slots for local personalities and talk and specialty music shows. I wish I could try some equipment and experiments in a low noise and low signal area. Take advantage of that. Where I am there's so much frequently every 10 kHz at night and the local and regionals often stomp all over each other. Be well.

[@JohnnyUmphress]

@@johnnytacokleinschmidt515 Yes, I have a long wire that I mainly use for shortwave. As for a station, I am currently building an AM tube-type transmitter that will cover my 12-acre homestead. It will have a loop of continuous 40's music and radio shows. And thinking of broadcasting two or three frequencies simultaneously so I can test dial alignment. FM here is also pretty much useless as the three or four stations are all syndicated and nothing local. As for tv, we can get one station by antenna. It is PBS and has four channels on it. So I didn't bother putting up my antenna just for that. Thanks for your suggestions.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

@@JohnnyUmphress Thanks for your feedback. I can only imagine your signal conditions.

[@janne1311]

Interesting to watch from start to finish. You have a good style of doing and saying things. Here in Finland, the tube televisions and radios have disappeared almost completely. There have never been many of them, compared to there. Small country and population. However, Finland also had its own TV and radio production and its own brands, from the 1950s to the 90s. Even domestic CRT production for a short time, in the late 70's.

[@rich_edwards79]

I remember Finlandia branded TVs and VCRs being everywhere in the UK during the 80s but I think they were just rebadged, British-made Fergusons. In the 1990s there was also Finlux which I believe was owned by Nokia (though we also had Nokia-badged TVs and STBs for a while.)

[@LazoeJSCREI]

If you know where to look you can get all the tube TVs you want still. Pienempien paikkakuntien jätelajitteluasemat missä on mukavaa ja rentoa väkeä yleensä suostuu myymään tavaraa sieltä ja aina löytyy kasa putkitelkkareita ja radioita. Vaikkakin 50-70 luvun tavara onkin harvinaisempaa kun 90-luvun muoviset, niitäkin silti löytää.

[@bwc1976]

I saw a Nokia-branded CRT TV in a video from Kreosan who lives in Ukraine.

[@stickytapenrust6869]

@@rich_edwards79 They weren’t Fergusons, the Finlandias were whatever Scandinavian TVs Granada Rentals could get cheap (Finlandia bring a Granada brand). Things like Luxor, Skantic, Salora, Finlux etc.

[@JerryEricsson]

DUDE! I watched the whole thing! ! ! But that said, I Almost ALWAYS watch all your videos. It is sort of like having coffee with an old buddy who is a TV Guy. TV's Fascinated me at a very young age, I think I was 10 when we got our first one. Dad was pissed because I saw all those buttons on the back and started screwing with them. He had to call a TV Repairman, who had him bring it to town (we were on the farm back then) to reset it all. Man I couldn't sit down for a week! And this during school, the teacher knew dad and understood my problem but urged me to stand in the back of the 1 room classroom during my "learning" session. That didn't stop me though, when we moved to town and dad sold off the farm 1/3 went to the Feds over his dad's delinquent seed loans from 1947, the rest was made in easy monthly payments as the farmer he sold it to was poor as hell.) Dad got a job at a wrecking yard, tearing down cars to sell off the parts, the dude at the yard took old TV's in for some reason. One day I was wondering through the warehouses of parts when I found the TV room. The owner saw me tinkering with a couple of sets and gave me one. MAN I was at it tore that set down too bare chase sorted out the parts, took apart the paper caps and strung them around my room for awhile, eve made an antenna for the shortwave radio I found at the city dump (they used to leave the dump on guarded and we kids loved finding good shit to play with! the foil made a good antenna in my upstairs bedroom, I could get Russia Cuba and all sorts of European stations, this was in the 60's when the shortwave bands were burring up with propaganda from all sides of the cold war. But I ramble on, I just wanted you to know I always watch all your videos unless I get company then I Resume. I am getting so damn old now that most of the folks who used to drop by are dead and gone, It has gotten so bad I had to stop going to their funerals, well covid sort of gave me the excuse besides they got so regular it became sort of depressing if you know what I mean, after I lost my wonderful wife, that sort of put the kibosh on going, now I just go to most relatives, thank GOD we are a long living branch of the Swedish Ericsson clan.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

God Bless you, sir. You had the kind of fun that children were frequently encouraged to do back then. I guess you are a littler older than myself, but I'm sure we would have had a blast together at that age checking everything out and learning all we could. My grandmother was Swedish and Grandfather English on my mom's side. My dad was 100% German. So I'm an American mut. I love this country and hope we can save her with God's Grace. Stay well.

[@spvillano]

Heh, took apart Dad's Baby Ben alarm clock, down to springs, gears and cogs, then put it together again. Managed to calibrate the timing as well, so nobody noticed it until after I told them days later. Then, went to town on old tube radios... By the time I went to electronics school, I already knew how to fix TV's and radios, learning solid state as they broke down. For years, I had callouses on my index finger and thumb on my left hand, both from swiping soldering tips clean and pulling horizontal outputs when they were still hot. BTW, had to clean up a kid's playing with the adjustments on the rear a few times, always offered to teach the kid what they were and did, but never had any taker. Pity, the kid could then foul them up and fix them. Even adjusting the screens and drives wasn't all that complicated, not that the drives were accessible with the cabinet back installed.

[@user-wq5sr6vt7x]

In the 90s, my grandmother had a Soviet color TV "Alpha", which did the same. This glow after turning off was unusually stable and lasted a very long time.

[@electrofan7180]

51ТЦ? У меня до сих пор есть с литовским кинескопом, экспортная версия, на морде писано ALFA. Год не помню, середина 90х. Часть микросхем уже импорт (или маркированы под него). Практически из последних "советских" ящиков.

[@ocotillo8291]

Guess I am one of the 5%! Every one of you videos teaches me something new and we appreciate it, despite being only a hobby. Anyhow that was a great resurrection way to keep the genuine content by showing what went wrong with the hot chassis into the tuner.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

I definitely learn from him. Having been mostly a hobbyist I have a good grasp of the signal path and the functions that must occur for a television to function. But real mileage successfully fixing electronics I lack. Shango's channel and videos have expanded my interest and knowledge. I greatly enjoy the challenge of learning and successfully overcoming problems so he and his work are a great blessing.

[@sheiladawg1664]

Grandfather had this set new. Keys jangling would change the channel, also silver coins. When we went to laminated copper coins it no longer happened.

[@SoddingaboutSi]

Yes, I remember counting coils whilst the tv went haywire!

[@darikdatta]

I had a space command that would shut off sometimes when I sneezed.

[@andymouse]

Yeah! I remember I had a Smarties Tube that I had filled with pennies and half pennies and if I shook it the TV would change channel, its stuff like that that made me love electronics !

[@pcno2832]

@@andymouse I did that one better by putting the coins in the TV itself at age 3 or 4. The slots on the back looked just like the ones on vending machines. My father only figured out what I was doing when he had to take it in to have it fixed and, eh, emptied.

[@angrydove4067]

I watch your videos start to finish, I am addicted, especially TV resurrections. Can't beat your commentary.

[@user-ki2cl9xe8z]

You remind me so much of my good friend "BOB" the TV engineer (who was everybodys friend) and had a personality just like yours. I love watching you fix "REAL" TV's from a time -period (that I think we're both from), but mostly it's you, who makes me feel good again and I feel like I'm back in the front room of his little house in Albuquerque that was filled with TV's, test equipment, and good friends. He had one of those GIANT projection TV's with the lower section that had 3 color -bulbs aiming up at the screen, a refrigerator full of beer and sodas sitting right beside it (and all of us guys were welcome to just keep grabbing as much of anything we wanted out of it. He also had his bed in the front room, and ALL of the bedrooms were filled with dusty TV equipment and working TV's EVERYWHERE in that house. His manner was very much like yours. Thanks for filling a void in my life. But hey... I really enjoy watching you trouble shoot these great old sets alot. Take care... Jeff

[@chetpomeroy1399]

I also seem to recall that Zenith generally made high-end color sets. There *really is* a reason why we were told in those more than 50-year-old TV commercials that _"the quality goes in before the name goes on."_ The innards, especially the undersides of these sets are *beautiful* works of modern American art! It's weird how the convergence seemed to slip out of adjustment after Shango so meticulously adjusted it to perfection.

[@pcno2832]

The set in our house was a Zenith B&W on one of those ugly metal stands that were all the rage back then and if the show that was on didn't interest me, I had a habit of lying with my head on the magazine rack, admiring all the big, ugly resistors, coils and capacitors you could see through the vents on the bottom. If she had seen me, my mother would probably have warned me away because of the X-rays, but I'm still alive with no cancer 52 years later.

[@atschirner]

Built in Springfield Missouri as I remember. We used to drive by the factory on the way to Branson before the divided highway.

[@greenaum]

@@pcno2832 X-rays are only produced when an electron beam is abruptly stopped by hitting something, like a screen. Of course there's lead in the glass to block them. But from any other angle, there are no X-rays to worry about. You were safe with your head under there, it's only the viewers who were getting a daily chest X-ray. Remember Homer Simpson's childhood home, and the shadow of him sat in front of the TV like the ones in Hiroshima?

[@chetpomeroy1399]

@@pcno2832 The high-voltage rectifier tube, as well as the cathode emission of black-and-white CRT's is not of sufficient voltage to produce ionizing X-radiation. The roundie color TV's of the mid/late-1950's; perhaps early/mid-1960's, were somewhat hazardous, and likely caused serious medical conditions for some technicians who serviced them; although, by the late 1960's the bells of the CRT's were mixed with lead alloys.

[@MrCarlsonsLab]

Fun video Shango. Thanks for sharing!

[@barryf5479]

I worked as a bench tech at a Zenith dealer when I was going through college. My parents bought one of these sets but without the remote control. I really like the metal plate on the bottom that gives access to all of the circuitry without pulling the chassis and putting it on a test jig. Anyway, these sets will run for a LONG time. We had one that belonged to a customer that didn't want it repaired and I picked it up for fifty dollars back in '71. This was my main set and it ran until the year 2000 when the CRT went soft. My parent's same set also went for decades with a lot of use. "The quality goes before the name goes on" was Zenith's motto. They meant it.

[@hestheMaster]

That holey horizontal output tube deserves to be made as an award for resurrection videos. Just add a wood plank as a base and glue a socket onto it . Then stick it onto the socket. Zenith was the best TV maker back in the day. Not junk.

[@vtjmproductionsusa2390]

Good old Zenith, " Quality goes in before the name goes on" Who remembers that from there Tv commercials 😊 Great video👍

[@MiamiMillionaire]

I like that you don't cut out your mistakes 👍

[@Pwills]

I’m one off those that watches your videos from beginning to end 👍🇬🇧

[@davids8449]

Excellent video, here in England we were still with the old B/W television sets and in 1963 we were still using the TVs from the early 50s we had two wooden cabinet type sets one for use and the other for repair

[@Theywaswrong]

Not bad for 50+ year old picture quality. It reminds me of my first color TV, bought in the early 1970's. A 19" table top model from Sears, no remote, $350 plus tax.

[@johnfranklin5277]

I have my Great uncle's 1954 Zenith Am Fm Phonograph thats in a beautiful cherry wood cabinet. I received it when he passed in 1994 at 100 years old. It has the COBRAMATIC turntable, and its all original excet for 1 tube. It has its original large speaker that sounds wonderful. In the 29 years ive owned it, it has worked great, the volume knob, and knob to switch from radio to Phonograph could use a cleaning, but thats all. It has absolutely NO HUM . Im sure he never had it overhauled, and ive done 4:45 nothing to it excapt keep the cabinet waxed. Its used for probably 2 to 3 hours a month, more at Christmas because we have alot of Christmas records..it will be 70 years old in a couple of months. I also have 2 color Zenith sets about the same age as this one here, they still work, and a 1964 Zenith table top tube radio my parents gave for Christmas. Its in the bedroom and still works fine. Yes I do believe thier motto was appropriate. At Zenith, the quality goes in, BEFORE THE NAME GOES ON.

[@1975RStefan]

Why people say "these TV sets are junk" ? I think such people never restored things themselves. That all are important parts of technical history that show up which ways the development went. Without all that we would still live in caves and make smoke signs. Respect for people who restore such old equipment and have experience in that.

[@FruitMuff1n]

I love that you included the magic smoke portion :) Always nice to learn from someone else's mistakes.

[@rickjohnson1632]

Zenith “ the quality goes in before the name goes on” 👍

[@rsattahip]

I've gone from loving and fixing those to using a high-definition 5-volt tablet as a TV. Electronics have changed in 50 years mostly but not totally for the better.

[@wrnchhead76]

I can’t even believe how good this picture is. Wow.

[@genethemachine7169]

You've really brought this set back from the grave! Even with the convergence trouble, I've never seen a color set that old, with a picture that good!

[@nunyon]

Guess my wife and I are some of the small % that watch your videos to the end. We use a FireCube on our TV to watch them so I rarely comment on videos. We are always amused by how you mic drop the end of them. Keep up the good work and we do love that you keep them real by showing mistakes and being honest about your work. Hopefully you get your SDR before we have to learn to speak Chinese. Take care.

[@bigalsmallengines]

I always watch the whole video. Never know what you will miss in a video like this. If I have to watch in two parts, I usually do. Always learn something from your repairs and resurrections. Cheers from North Carolina! 🍻

[@BrumAdam]

Amazing picture by the end - once the red convergence is dialled in this set appears to be a keeper. Nice work as ever. Thanks!

[@augustinchenault9981]

Shango I watch basically every video from beginning to end multiple times. You’re one of my favorite teachers.

[@tony--james]

Yup, made it 100% through , love the long vids, actually, I wish it were longer, now gotta wait for the next one!! see ya next week!!!

[@quantumleap359]

In the early 70's, I remember watching Star Trek TOS on a set exactly like this one except no remote control. Excellent picture, much, MUCH better than any RCA of that vintage. That set ran nearly 9 years, probably 16 hours a day, never required one service visit. That was quality. I lost track of the set in the late 70's, wouldn't surprise me it it still was working yet today!

[@markmarkofkane8167]

We had a microwave oven that had wood grain metal cabinet! 1984 Sharp Carousel II. I love tv repair videos. Radios too. We had no reason to get a remote control tv in the 70's. We watched mostly one channel, and I had no problem adjusting the volume and other controls as a kid. I enjoyed messing with the controls trying to get the perfect picture. I watched this video to the end.😉

[@BrainDamageBBQ]

In 1986 or so, I scored a 1970 Admiral Solar Color 21" set out of the garbage. All metal cabinet, like your Zenith, and it wasn't built cheaply. My classmates helped me carry it back to my school, and eventually my parents brought it home in the family Plymouth Valiant. I fixed it - a 6LU8 brought the vertical back . At the time, our family only had a 1984 20" Hitachi Luminar 20 color TV set. I think my father was jealous that I had a bigger color TV in my bedroom than the one he had scrimped and saved to buy for the family. I was 12 years old, what did I know about male pride? I was totally OCD about getting the dynamic convergence perfect. I was 12 years old. "Capacitors can't go bad! They're just two plates!" LOL. The damned TV spent the rest of its life with the convergence board in the service position. 12 years old and working on a 100% tube-based delta-gun color TV set. I was rightly afraid of the set. I never got a shock off it because I was terrified of it. But no parent should let their child work on vacuum-tube based TV sets or microwave ovens. My parents didn't know how dangerous the horizontal output could be, or what could come off the low voltage rectifier (it was a full wave tube, not a 5U4, something bigger). I survived, as you can see, went on to become a broadcast video technician, then went back to school as a mature student to study electrical engineering. I absolutely love analog video equipment to the point I would shoot my own KZbin channel on Betacam SP if I had the space for the VTR editor. I love your videos. "And stewing in my Depends and enjoying the creamy sensation." LMFAO.

[@probnotstech]

Your videos are always worth watching to the end. It's like my Saturday morning cartoons as an adult.

[@chachavessel]

You rock dude.. "Not see you very often" I saw the funny compilation video someone made, and I had to binge watch older videos. Anywho...back in the day I did this as a hobbyist, but I never got to this level problem solving. Most important thing I've learned from you is your persistence. Ty. Peace.

[@randyr.parker2698]

I watch all your vids all the way through! This TV was manufactured when I was 10 yrs old, it's like walking down memory lane. Either myself, or one of my other two brothers was the 'remote' control. Our dad would say 'go put it on channel xx' LOL!

[@garp32]

As always.. I watched this video from start to finish. It's the only way to really get that "Come to where the flavor is" type of feeling =)

[@sonnymollet6661]

i love watching your vintage radio and television repairs videos , you start of by presenting the problem its brief history and diagnosis with humour thrown in which makes it most interesting to say the least, i am learning new things each day from your videos as I'm a novice, in todays throw away culture your videos makes people realise how easy a fix can be, keep posting, stay safe🙂have a nice day from UK

[@rexoliver7780]

Sucked in side tubes-Not only with TV horizontal output tubes-this happened to 833 glass triode power tubes used in Gates and some RCA 1Kw AM broadcast transmiters.One time a freind and I came upon a 1KwAM from a service call.That Tx was still working the sides of the RF amp and mod tubes sucked in-transmitter was still playing.The blower failed.Replaced the blower and tubes-all was well.This shows how TOUGH tubes can be!!So loved those Zenither TV's in their time was the best TV you could get.And their tubes lasted a LONG time-they were operated well below the max ratings.Our family had a BW Zenither table model-after over 20yrs still had its orig tubes.Set was working when traded in to an RCA XL100 color set.Loved wathing "Outer Limts" on that Zenith!!

[@nickb.8876]

I watch the entirety of your videos. Can't get enough of troubleshooting and problem solving. I've found myself in situations similar to yours. I too have also learned to take a step back before I really screw something up. I appreciate your videos, they are very entertaining and informative.

[@gregoryclemen1870]

I always watch your video's from start to finish!!!!, I got into this business in the mid 70's

[@me3333]

Zeniths and Trinitrons were prized possessions back in the day. Today it's hard to imagine a TV being a prized possession but back then a cheap RCA was still expensive but Zeniths and Trinitrons cost months of pay for a lot of people and usually were bought on credit. Zeniths and Trinitrons were always a cut above the rest and people usually took better care of them. I remember some people had plastic covers that they put over them when not in use to keep the dust out of them and just about everybody would unplug them when a thunderstorm would come through.

[@jackwilson5542]

Well, you can still spend a pretty penny on a TV today if you want to. There is 110 inch Micro LED from Samsung out there, which retails for $192K.

[@me3333]

@@jackwilson5542 No doubt about that but now it doesn't seem to matter the name brand, they all seem to have their problems

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

Personally DeShango i had not heard of a tube getting so hot, (red plating) to get the glass so hot the ambient air pressure pushed the glass in. You being a tech from the old days had heard of it. I have been replacing tubes and resistors and caps since the 60's and I knew it was possible. Usually the thing that burns out on these old sets besides the rectifier tube is the ballast resister which I have seen people replace with a bunch of capacitors when those resister packs are unobtainium. Oh by the way Shango, thank you for your service. People have to die for my freedom, so thanks.

[@abovegroundgarage]

As a mechanic and enthusiast of many hobbies, I can truthfully say shango066 played a major role in helping me diagnose and repair electronics. I would recommend this guy to anyone. He films some of the best diagnostic work of any hobbyist electronics repair I’ve ever seen. Keep it up and I will always be back here to check out some videos. Thanks.

[@TheSquaredM]

Started laughing when you’re helium TrIp kIcKeD In! The new feet reminds me of a line from Christine, “New windshield wipers for a busted windshield.”

[@patf2444]

When you sped up your voice I thought I was tripping! What a trip this vid was to watch about a trippy tv!!! Lol lol 😆

[@robertsmida9601]

Always watch your whole video. It's always entertaining. Your videos always take me back to my childhood. I grew up with black and white TV's. My mother's parents had a Zenith floor model. That's when TV's were actually beautiful. I loved the floor models with the wood cabinets. Now everything is plastic. I'm old enough to remember the TV repairman actually coming to your house to fix your set. They are all gone in my area. The last one shut down about 10 years ago. So now when I need a belt for my 1970's Pioneer record player hopefully I can find one online. Everyone of your video's reminds me of my grandmother's multi band tube radios. Them things would pick up short wave. She had 2 of them in my bedroom, so I always got to play with them. I would leave them unplugged because I didn't trust them and they always took a while to start up. From your channel I should have left them plugged in. It's a shame them radio's were lost in a fire. I've been waiting for you to find something like them. The cabinets were about 3ft high x 2ft wide and 1ft deep. Both had at least 5 bands. Beautiful wooden cabinets.

[@johnnytacokleinschmidt515]

In my area you can frequently get them for free or just a little money. Working good and looking great will cost you some money.

[@michaelclutton8446]

Thanks Shango another great Saturday evening viewing I am in the 3 percent Mike UK

[@buffdelcampo]

When I was a kid, we had Zenith sets from a local dealer since 1961. We had a problem once. They sent a guy to our house and fixed it. I remember the tech said it had a bad resistor. And, yes, I watch your videos all the way until the end. Thank you!

[@arongooch]

Ive been following Shango's channel for many years now and have always watched the whole video's when I can and liked them. Great channel.

[@rolandkeith5322]

I watch your videos to the end man as I like learning this stuff.

[@d.c.hammond130]

" HAND CRAFTED CHASSIS " was a Zenith Corporation marketing line for many years into the P C board era of television design. Had to be a big hit to their profit margin given the labor intensity in hand wiring a color TV. Repair people hated the RCA and Admiral P C sets because it was over a dozen.5 vacuum tubes baking the testicles of the P C. They dried, cracked, and broke circuits. Careful putting tubes back into an old P C.

[@quantumleap359]

Yep, handcrafted by people who gave a shit. And RCA dared to say " No wires to go haywire". RCA was a shit company even back then. Zenith and Sony helped put that clown company out of business. Good riddance.

[@greenaum]

The feeling I get, as someone a few years younger than that particular set, is amazement and being impressed, by the fact it could ever possibly work, all those hundreds of hand-soldered joints, bare component leads insulated either by dangling in the air or resting on the shells of other components. Then the other feeling is horror, that they actually designed and built this thing, in it's millions, and put them in people's homes! There must be more hand-soldered joints in that one set, than there are in an entire street of houses nowadays. Yet still they were reliable. There must be a pound of lead just in that solder.

[@davepike6170]

Great job on that Zenith, those were and still are great sets. I always enjoy watching your videos all the way through, sometimes I have to watch in increments, but I continue where I leave off, until I'm at the end. Thank you for providing instruction and quality videos.

[@jwl9286]

Not me! I watched the entire production. I happen to like seeing errors. I knew so little in the day but got by because parts were so available and many of the problems were the same common things. I have images in my mind of a guy sweating it out in the mirror doing a convergence after a CRT replacement. It became automatic to replace the Horizontal Output tube (bad or not) and those darn pilot lamps for every tube replacement. I at least liked to get out of the neighborhood before being called back. It would have been awesome to have you around then especially for Vertical problems. Had difficulties with them and you rock. you have tackled so many extraordinary problems that amaze me. I worked on one job for hours and the darn Delay line managed to go open. I thought I was a hero for solving that problem. Thanks. I love your trips around LA too. From this side of the country LA has a mystique like no place else.

[@johnmadow5331]

In 1972 I saw 19" Zenith colour TV set made in America (Grenville,Illinois) sold new for $369.00 plus sales taxes at Two GUYS in Cherry Hills Mall, NJ. I made $1.00 a day allowance at that time. You can buy a two year old used car, Plymouth Valiance 6 cylinder auto low mileage from reputable dealer for 1.5K!

[@bradmehsling3722]

I love watching you save this set! I saved a zenith 19 inch from 1969 that my parents had for years always wanting to restore it. It had a vivid picture as I remember. Unfortunately I got tired of moving it over the years and junked it. Would love to find one and have it operational again. Appreciate your videos!

[@snap_oversteer]

Picture looks great for 52 year old TV, I've recently picked up unrestored Sony Trinitron KV-1310R from early 70s and it also surprised me how sharp and colorful the picture is.

[@rexoliver7780]

Finished watching this video-and liked the beautiful picture your Zenith TV can produce!

[@JCWise-sf9ww]

One TV repair guy that we had near Newberrytown PA, repaired mainly Zenith TV sets and that was his preference. He would keep a stock of zenith parts on hand. - Shango066 It's something to see an old TV set that you think would not work come back to life.

[@t0nito]

That picture is so sharp you can see the dot crawl a mile away!

[@ziggfreud9820]

Kinda amazed at how good that picture is.

[@djsonic6533]

Such a beautiful TV set from back in the day when they definitely put the quality before the name. For a TV as Old as my mom it amazing!!

[@robturner3065]

Thanks, I was one of the 3 to 5 percent.....! I'm a vintage electronics hobbyist and I work in an electrical repair shop, your no-nonsense diagnostic procedure is really informative and reflects real-world practice. A rare thing on youtube....

[@mikegross6107]

I remember the trouble with the convergence when putting together the Heathkit color TV years ago! Had the same problem even with the precise instructions, it was a long process getting it the way it was supposed to be! Thanks for the memories.

[@tonyvia349]

I really enjoyed this one. Zenith proves it's great once again. I love these metal cabinet models and thanks for bringing another one back to life! I don't mind the remote sets as you can still use the on/off and volume even with a box attached but i get what you're saying. Thanks for another entertaining and learning video!

[@RingtailTheRaccoon]

It really seems like they build things to last back then I would love to see anything made today work after 50 years

[@RockeyDAproductions]

guess im part of the 3% i forget about your channel for a few months, then i binge watch while working on personal projects. right now finetuning 3D printable tokarev frame before work.

[@tony--james]

Also, this was very close to the Zenith TV set I grew up with, a 1970 Zenith, ( but without the remote. or space command) I still have some photos of it, from 1971, 1975 etc, it lived till 1982, when the then high hour set's picture tube finally said goodbye!! cats today will never know what it's like to sleep on a hot metal TV Set lol edit, looking at pic, now it had the 2 convention channel knobs, and 3 smaller knobs above them ,

[@johnorlitta]

I watch all of your videos all the way through, and I really enjoy them.

[@parnellitube]

Nice picture. Love the colorful pattern on the screen when you shut it down.

[@davesherman74]

Very cool! My family had a Zenith from roughly that vintage. The back and construction style were very similar. It was nearly all tube but it had two small transistors socketed in the chassis. At the ripe old age of 14 I managed to repair it after the HV rectifier tube managed to arc through the plastic cup the socket was mounted in. It kept going ZAP ZAP ZAP and the screen would blank. I added a plastic spacer between the cup and the chassis and that took care of it.

[@tarstarkusz]

1:10:00 Don't be so sure. I sometimes comment in the very beginning of a long video so I don't forget. But I still watch the entire video. Just because someone posts a comment addressing something 5 or 10 minutes into the video, does not mean they subsequently did not watch the entire video.

[@earlblakley4910]

Be surprised how many zenith products are still out there working today. They built a good radio as well.

[@HavingFunRepairs]

Always watch begining to end. Most of the time for the repair, but your commentary keeps me interested.

[@Mrch33ky]

Family had one of these when I was a kid. Still have the scar from stitches in my forehead where I ran into it horsing around one day. Built like a tank!

[@nicholasfrediani9466]

1 hour 13 mins and 43 seconds watched and greatly enjoyed. Thank you for your time man!

[@PINKBOY1006]

I guess I am the 3%, I put this on my second monitor and work on stuff while watching this. Love the long repair videos!

[@johndodge2188]

Good show, I really like most of your vintage TV'S

[@ovalwingnut]

That tube! I'll say it got hot. The softening temperature of "normal" soda-lime glasses is above 500-550°C. That's close to 1000°F (for us less refined folk ;O) Amazing Grace.

[@mianahmad5918]

Shango is cool and his television sets are gold.

[@edwardmartinez9459]

Zenith was the best loved working on them.

[@randynelson2265]

Mistakes have great entertainment and learning value.

[@mr.grumpygrumpy2035]

Cool TV! Someday when I have space I'll get a Zenith console from the late 50s with the Cobra-Matic.

[@7c3c72602f7054696b]

That set is really neat, I can't find one locally but the challenge of getting it going would be a lot of fun, great video.

[@kennethmarsalek4547]

Damn I miss old TV's

[@douglashoff95]

Zenith and Motorola were some of the best sets of that time. By not using printed circuit boards the issue of deteriorated solder connections (particularly under tube sockets) was pretty much eliminated.

[@WFTL14]

Tubes, convergence, vertical/horizontal, and fine tuning seem so prehistoric now but I knew even when I was young Zenith made a superior set! Great video, and you're right mistakes are part of the game. It even happened to the pros but so few are left to tell the tales!

[@wa9dds]

Great picture. Got lucky on the coil. Enjoy your videos

[@MrHeem94]

Your Andy Rooney impression is spot on.

[@LakeNipissing]

I watch all of your videos right to the end, Shango.

[@jimw7ry]

Those colors at turn off are really cool Shango! And yes... I watched the entire video. :)

[@dalerobinsuk]

Great video, has to be one of the best sets you have had on your channel, incredible picture quality and sharpness. Even the OSD from the converter box looks pin sharp. Sound is excellent too.

[@focus82grothm.84]

I watched all the video, great Zenith set, loved it all 😊👍

[@MrRantWhy]

I always watch the full video. Have to wait for the sarcasm and comedy gold.

[@woodstock69girl55]

I love the names they came up with back in the day,out of this world.

[@johnchildress6717]

Fairly clean set inside minus the spider.Enjoy your repair vids.Would be cool to see you and Brian get to another one.

[@arienhaddock8392]

True that on the zenith....either it works or it doesnt. Spent 15 years as a tech, sometimes zenith would get the strangest problems, but most were simple. Sad in the 90's their CRT's went to the toilet, always was zapping those tubes for a weak gun when fixing other problems. Customer would pickup the set and think it wasn't theirs.....they didnt notice the slow loss of blue or red. Have a few black and white tube sets but no color tube sets, you got a dream collection lol.....

[@Ronl53]

I watched all the way through and enjoyed it. I learn from your videos and you make it fun. Thanks for the videos.