Repairing 1969 Zenith Color Tube CRT Tabletop Television Set

[@transcanada9028]

You're soooo lucky to still have a local electronics store.

[@Stoneforth]

I consider myself lucky for just having the abandoned signs still in place

[@waltergabriel3694]

Digi key is an online electronic supply company. I've ordered several parts from them. A great resource for parts

[@agoogleuser704]

@@waltergabriel3694 you don’t say, did you watch the video? He actually ordered from them in it as well. You seem like an astroturfer with this comment 😢

[@waltergabriel3694]

@A Google User don't be such a smart ass. I was replying to Doug.

[@KameraShy]

@@waltergabriel3694 Likewise. That is all that is left for us. Plus Mouser.

[@bigalsmallengines]

I wonder if 50 years from now, will someone like Shango be resurrecting a flat screen.... LOL Not likely I suppose. But this Zenith is a watchable piece of history and design 50 years later. Truly amazing yes! Cheers! 🍻 Great Video and Television! -Al

[@1marcelfilms]

"here we have" this early 2000s plasma tv that is now 50 years old Can we fix it?

[@stevencarlson5422]

i resurrected a 55in plasma tv that im still using it was left for dead in the junk pile in town, i picked it up and sure enough no signs of life turns out one of the transistors on the power supply was broken in half, put a new one in and bang it worked easy fix

[@auchterawer1150]

@@stevencarlson5422 The power supplies seem to be the Achilles' Heel of 90% of flat screen monitors, which is not too surprising. They're often an easy fix, but most people either don't have the knowledge, or don't want to bother. LED bulbs - same thing - the power supply in the bulb base usually gives out long before any of the individual LEDs burn out (except the bulbs usually aren't worth repairing; just cannibalize them for parts). I've made floodlights from the white aluminum-core LED PCB assemblies from dead LED bulbs, sort of like Shango's big handheld mine-exploring light, using an alternate power supply (around 60-62 VDC) and current regulator.

[@StuffnSuch]

I can no longer function without viewing Crepe Erase ads at least once a day.

[@directcurrent5751]

I stopped the tape. I need to confess that my man crush made me hopeful and giddy that SHANGO was reaching out to me. The chromacolor logo was convincing. I rehearsed polite ways to avoid political topics and bro mance the Zenith era. Then truth hit me, like a pina colada hangover. Thank you for clarifying. I'm grateful to be here with a CRT, even while my heart is mending.

[@WolfmanDude]

Shango troubleshooting the tv while the lady talks about dick troubleshooting was just great :D

[@thesoniczone]

I LOLed. That was a priceless moment

[@JerryEricsson]

It is amazing how one little wire can have such an effect on these old sets. Congrats on finding it and making it work once more! I do envy your knowledge, and thanks for sharing, I never fail to learn more about electronics with every video of yours that I view. I have always said, "to stay young, one must continue to learn!" Your channel keeps me young and at 72, I can use all the youth I can recover!

[@Dennis-uc2gm]

I worked on a handful of these in vocational Radio & TV in my junior and senior year in High school in the early 70's. That was back when you could still learn the beginnings of a real trade you could use in life. This brought back a lot of memories.👍

[@KameraShy]

Not in my high school in the 60's. All you could learn was Chaucer. (For some fun, read the Miller's Tale.)

[@BlottaMcTablets]

That's why it's daunting to get into electronic repair now. There's no type of class I can take anywhere near me to teach even the basics. The best we have is the internet and word of mouth.

[@Trance88]

What a great little set. The picture appears to be about 70% there. Just needs that last 30% with replacement components. The sound from this set is surprisingly rich.

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I've always wondered what those "metal spikes" on top were next to the tubes. Now I know. Thanks for the education.

[@davidraezer5937]

Thanks!

[@janosnagyj.9540]

24:21 🤣"Oh yeah if it's carrying a big load like you of course it's going to break down" 😅🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🥰

[@lowrybrock8272]

Really enjoyed this video. Great find on that broken wire. And I agree that comparing notes with other people is smart and can save an ass load of time. Keep making them and I’ll keep watching them.

[@robinsattahip2376]

What a beautiful old television, there really was quality put into those things. It's obviously lived a hard and long-hour life.

[@KameraShy]

I would have sooooo loved to have had one of those in 1969. But now, surrounded by flat screen monitors doing the same thing. Some picked up at Goodwill for $4.99.

[@ericmoeller3634]

man you roasted that guy on that car shield commercial 😂😂😂

[@RoughJustice2k18]

When it comes to capacitor values, Shango's motto is clear; "you can't lose with 22's".😇

[@W1RMD]

Wow it looks and sounds great! Nice to see something a few years older than I am work that well without blue pills.

[@tecfixed2840]

Service bulletins are perfectly acceptable, saves a lot of time and parts cannoning!

[@stevewright9707]

Love your channel and all your comments during the filming 😀 I wanted to let you know I worked on one of those Zenith 19" "Portable" sets years ago. One of the things I found was the transistor sockets in the video/if circuits were oxidized and making bad connection, which caused weak or no video and extremely low contrast. Just a suggestion for something to check. Love your videos and keep up the good work!

[@davesherman74]

I recognize that model, my folks had the same one when I was little. When we got our Commodore 64 computer in 1983, we were using that old timer as the monitor.

[@MrDoneboy]

The good old days!

[@weekendwarriorweldingdiypr4604]

The Jim Cramer comment made me almost spit my drink on my phone.

[@MrCrystalcranium]

Just amazing a wire with a diameter smaller than a hair could bring down a TV’s performance that much. When I think of what goes into diagnosing, targeting, finding and repairing a fault that you need a microscope to find…my skills and knowledge will NEVER advance to that level. That’s an Easter season worthy resurrection!

[@fredflintstone8048]

I enjoy working on the Zenith Transoceanic transistor radios and they use the solder pot construction as well. Along with them being easy to solder and desolder they make a good test point when the components are in a tough place to access like the RF stage. I would avoid playing, 'The View' on the set. The components in the set will likely rebel left and right popping, exploding, committing hari kari. Taking a page from the SMT repair guys I use some good liquid flux for working on old solder joints. A drop or two gets the old solder flowing nicely. A small bottle with a good dispenser tip lasts for years. I also add new solder. Low melt solder can be very helpful if trying to heat two solder joints at once, or larger solder joint where a lot of heat needs to be dissipated.

[@wayneheigl5549]

you got that right about the view fred . what an insult to that beautiful set.

[@KameraShy]

But ... as shown here "The View" was totally fuzzy and out of focus. No further explanation required.

[@fredflintstone8048]

@@KameraShy 🤣🤣👍👍

[@shivasisdash7343]

the audio clarity is awesome..

[@stirlingschmidt6325]

Thanks for what is 'must watch TV' in my world, Mr Shango!

[@Synthematix]

I havent watched this yet, but have instantly clicked "like" i love portable colour sets

[@volvo09]

Too bad they were so easy to get rid of.

[@KameraShy]

I always click the "Like" first, in case I forget. I can always Unlike later.

[@charleslaing3426]

I was given an early 25" Zenith console TV that had been thru a flood. I was planning to use it for parts, but I decided to try turning it on and it came up with a raster. So I took it out in the yard and flushed out all the mud. You could see where it had floated up and onto its side. After drying it thoroughly I got it working really well. I was even able to refinish the wooden cabinet. I remember those "solder pot" terminal strips. As I recall, there were 27 steps to set the convergence.

[@blitzroehre1807]

Good going there Mr Shango. A small word of caution: The voltage rating of these modern electrolytic caps tightly seam stitched, they have no reserve which older caps did have. It may be advisable to measure the peak volts before the tubes warm up and raise the voltage rating accordingly (say to 385 / 400v ) just to be on the safe side. Cheers from Germany

[@danhubanks554]

A friend of mine asked me what I should refer to him for binge-watching and so I suggested your channel.

[@intell2OOO]

LOVE your sarcastic comments on a stupid commercials 😃😃😃

[@coolbluelights]

Wow. you really know your way around these old TVs. I wouldn't have found that break in a million years there's so many components to look at.

[@TheBananaPlug]

Nice fix, well done spotting that coil wire break. I thought the solder pots were known as turret tags, but that might just have been what the guy who told me about them called 'em. Great video as always.

[@gsnfan]

Nice! I would have bought that at the time it came out.

[@55benchguy]

Another Excellent Video. Thank You for that. Cant believe you found & repaired that broken coil. I do remember cutting and breaking those coils to get them out of those solder pots. BUT the new ones were still available at that time. Great Job Buddy !

[@SuperZed21]

Another Crepetastic video! Great picture, easy to see the crepey skin!

[@davepike6170]

Really good job on that Zenith, it looks great!

[@bigmotter001]

WOW did you save my day by posting a video! I was going nuts! Thanks and take care!

[@edwardallan197]

I really love this set. A Zenith, late all-tube, clean styling. And the all metal case....

[@billmyke746]

The Jim Kramer reference had me laughing.

[@joonglegamer9898]

I can see the appeal in you fixing these old works of art. I mean, I'd even love to see a film (and I say film) about how some of these sets were hand soldered together, because I can't even fathom a time were all those components were hand soldered together to produce thousands of these sets. I'm from that time too, but... the set itself is so deceptive, it looks semi modern on the outside, like it was from the mid 80s or something, but then when you show us the undercarriage it's like something right out of the 50s with all the intricate components literally overlapping each other in the most intricate soldering network of components.

[@KameraShy]

That process might have been filmed, like even possibly for training purposes, but would have been considered very proprietary. Buried deep in corporate archives somewhere. Does anybody now even have a clue as to who now owns such Zenith archives?

[@auchterawer1150]

@@KameraShy I don't know about Zenith, but Tektronix' old archives of internal training films are on KZbin. Look for the "VintageTEK Museum" channel. There's at least one film there - a 1969 film on the process of designing and assembling printed circuit boards - which shows some of the assembly processes. It shows the old black-tape-on-Mylar method of PCB layout, which is now long obsolete. I did a few layouts with that method in the early 1980s, before computer board layout software became commonplace. It was a very time-consuming process.

[@erikdenhouter]

Terrific greens ! Best I have seen on a CRT.

[@sabbath7081]

I have two zeniths from 1970 one 15"portable plastic, and one table top 19" space command 100 with a metal cabinet, both of which have minor problems like this, the 19 in has a fantastic picture even though the red and the green are slightly weak, the 15 " has other issues between contrast and brightness but still very watchable.

[@ryan61384]

Shango the new way to repair all of your electronic stuff is with crepe erase ultra.

[@moisessan1]

No importa cuanto se transforme la electrónica, siempre nos sorprenderá el ingenio Humano.

[@frankowalker4662]

I get those special offer messages all the time, I just delete them. That's one hell of a picture. Great fix, Shango.

[@Solipsfilm]

I've been watching your videos one after the other lately, so interesting seeing the investigation you go through to get these back in working order. I've also bought 3 retro black and white Philips sets and I'm planning to try to fix them as well. One is already working, two more to go!Thanks for all the informative videos! Ps: wow tv in Amerika is even worse than in Europe.. Already can't stand all the crap they spew here, but this is on another level. Good that you're having a laugh about it with your comments 😆

[@SSSwilliams]

That was an epic fix. Watched it twice now.

[@TrevorsBench]

Another successful result from the crepe erase channel, well done

[@zacharymaclellan6761]

I love this little set, Its adorable!

[@Monza62000]

i have that same tv ,,got for my grandma ..an she is gone now tv still works like new ,,well its a zenith

[@mrpontiac83]

100% of viewers agree... Another crepe-tastic repair!

[@wayneheigl5549]

if you put the crepe cream on the C.R.T. you get a beautiful young fresh picture with no lines, even on an old dried out C.R.T. .

[@mjg263]

Great find, that’s like microsurgery! Very nice little TV.

[@teacfan1080]

Yay! Crepe Erase! Your tv is looking good. Once you get the rest of the caps, it'll look almost new. Nice catch with that small wire on the coil!

[@randyr.parker2698]

It's AMAZING that one little tiny wire can stop color, isn't it? Good find!!!!! @shango066

[@KameraShy]

That is where the analysis comes in. Identifying the faulty component.

[@bobkirkham5155]

Nice fix, Shango! And also to Crépe Erase for fixing that crépey skin with 12 super hydrators plus peptides.......

[@turle8645]

Nichicon capacitors are always my go to when ordering off digikey. Not the cheapest, but reasonably priced. and knowing they’re gonna last a lot longer than the cheap Chinese no name crap, I think it’s worth the extra $0.15 per capacitor

[@50shadesofbeige88]

My contribution to the Jim Cramer retirement fund. I'm sure it'll be worth millions in short order. 😂

[@KameraShy]

I gave up on Cramer long ago. Kept touting SalesForce just before it tanked.

[@Martin-io4wc]

On the color lock coil, WOW! 😊

[@bittukathar1674]

Good work sir ji bittu electronic tv engineer

[@acoustic61]

Some of the best troubleshooting videos!

[@bluejayoutpost9170]

Say hello to top notch TV guy Shango 066 👍😎💯

[@gennadyfadeev5955]

Wow! Nice to c your perfect work again!!! Good luck!

[@Desert-edDave]

Great find with that coil!

[@andymouse]

I have a vague recollection of electronic stores, Maplin was one of the biggest in the UK...cheers

[@joelcabrera5257]

Oh boy 😊 Another great Vid for weekend enjoyment Thank You Y

[@jackevans2386]

Well I for one, enjoyed this repair, if only for the little blue pills advert. Keep up the great work shango066.

[@tokyogentleman]

nice fix it looks great for a 69 tv. add some flux and new solder to the corroded joints to make it flow better.

[@jontebos7290]

Nice save... Cool looking set 👍

[@darkspartan566]

I have loved this channel for years excellent content, keep it up buddy! 😊

[@Mike1614YT]

you improved the picture dramatically. nice job

[@glennk1931]

Excellent job! Enjoy your videos.

[@dimkaBG]

Для своих лет отлично показывает...

[@Libertyordeath38]

I love your videos. I learn a lot and laugh a lot! I love your commentary! lol

[@EdgarsLS]

Capacitor reforming is an actual thing that capacitor companies document, it's normal for any electrolytic capacitor to have to be reformed after being sat unused. The problem with the old ones is that they have had their seal break, let the electrolyte dry out and then let in moisture, ruining the capacitor even if it does reform at first.

[@MegaWayneD]

Another brilliant video as always. Also: Crepe erase!

[@petemiksich5760]

That "find" was so great I was saying "WOW" out loud and over and over. My family thinks I'm crazy........and I don't care!

[@pcno2832]

One thing I just noticed about this TV is that it has both a coarse and fine UHF tuning knob, while my parent's 1970 B&W model had a see-through fine tuning drum that completely covered up the dial, so you had to twiddle the drum 10 times to get from station to station. Since both designs required exactly the same number of parts, I assume that was just Zenith's way of reminding the owners of their economy models that they missed out on something. Of course, it was easy to get around this annoyance by replacing the see-through-drum with a radio knob, then the dial served as the coarse tuning control and the little knob did the fine tuning.

[@tarantula_live]

It looked like a cracked solder joint on the coil too, right above the resistor you mentioned.

[@hestheMaster]

One of these days we are going to see one of these infomercials giving a shout out to Shango. LOL

[@blackvinylgrooves]

The screenshot at 47:57 looks like the wires are bleeding. Yes,the camera on your phone has greater, detail, zoom, etc than most cameras.

[@monkeyboy4746]

The beautifying paste commercial lists several products, they are all probably the same stuff in each bottle, with a different label. They remind me of E6000, Shoe Goo, Amazing Goop, the same stuff in each tube, they just label it differently.

[@clemsonbloke]

Listen to the sound, that portable tv has sound and a bigger sound than any 65 inch flat tv today. That is great sound, what size of speaker does that TV have? You are right, the greens look good. I look to have good greens and good blues. Favorite colors.

[@cfd_novotroitsk]

46:48 Yes, rewinding a broken coil with couple thousand turns can definitely cause ED))

[@garyk.8674]

Looks good. I'm envious

[@hartengel7724]

That's what I like about your channel... Your honest and upfront about everything. Great video

[@ThejasonJaw5442]

Color looks clean sharp.

[@danielknepper6884]

JJ cruiser

[@MUN.A1988]

Incredable effort that restorates this old TV.. Would put cooling fan like the which is used in the computers?

[@pikadroo]

Oh my, the business report. 😂 What a comedy show! Far better choice than the news or crepe erase!

[@KofolaDealer]

Damn our first color TV made in Czechoslovakia was in 1973

[@ToTheGAMES]

Heard you talk about it a lot, but this is the first time I've seen the Crap Erase ad 😂

[@mullahviking]

You should have made a switch on the broken wire on that coil. That color effect was really cool when it wasn't working.

[@Kinann]

Like as a form of torture.

[@mullahviking]

@@Kinann who wouldn't want that feature on a tv? 😄

[@randyab9go188]

Remember Jim Cramer was bully on Nortel. He made a giant mistake on that one. He damn near destroyed his credibility on thst.

[@quantumleap359]

Gee, when you were talking about the greens, I thought "Shango doesn't need any Blue Pills!" Ha ha just joking, great video. I remember how good these sets looked when new. Best picture in the business.

[@One-Crazy-Cat]

Wait a min ice T endorsement of car shield? That’s it I’m sold.

[@hanginglow420]

" This is a Test " lady for President 2024

[@UHF43]

She's more awake than Sleepy Joe.

[@michaelcorleone1577]

Hi Dan, thanks for the great videos mate, they are appreciated and enjoyed. I never cared for high-voltage too much so I stuck to solid state, but i always enjoyed the old reel to reel and other thermionic gear my parents left at my grandparents when they left I like the smell of the old warm hollow state gear, I have an old Yaesu FT101ZD which I, er, enjoy the smell of too, after a good chat on the thing, yes it's a fetish and No, I'm not proud of myself. Cheers Shango, making learning fun 👍

[@50shadesofbeige88]

Honest question: Why not just use a test pattern instead of live TV to assess the picture quality?

[@clayton7825]

Because how else can we get our crepe erase on? 😂

[@50shadesofbeige88]

@@clayton7825 touchè

[@shango066]

easier to detect video bending and overload problems with the real thing.

[@plateshutoverlock]

42:55 - Yes, it's a bit tricky taking two classes simultaniously.

[@Daniel_cheems]

Amazing repair

[@DrewskisBrews]

You need to accept the Crepe Erase call to action, "...see what crepe erase can do for you". See if it will do anything to restore those old capacitors or remove corrosion

[@Martin-io4wc]

I ordered the skin cream. TNX for the lead.