My first TV was a small Zenith like this that I bought used from Larry Dorst TV, our neighborhood TV store. I am guessing it was a slightly newer 1970 or 1971 model. I remember feeling lucky to have my own TV, separate from the one in our family room. As I recall, I paid $40 for it, with money earned from my paper route. The volume knob and on off control on mine was at the lower portion of the speaker grille, where the Zenith emblem is on the set in the video.
Wow, the Beltron really worked some magic! Zenith was one of the first in the industry to adopt disc and mylar film capacitors in place of paper----they were all about the reliability
Here in the UK we had 14" black/white portables in this era called the "Ferguson Courier" they were absolutely awesome sets, i played my computer on it for years.
AWESOME! This is very similar to the one that was our only TV until about the time I was in High School. Fond(ish) memories... Shango did one of these quite a while back, including the video from a Zenith ad showing how it was dropped from a Cessna, and still worked fine...
I really didn't expect the c.r.t to improve so much, what a difference!. Hopefully the emission stays at it's current level, but i won't hold my breath lol. Pity there isn't any cheap freeview t.v boxes locally, putting one inside the set would make the t.v 100% compatable again. Ooops freeview is the uk box standard. I still think t.v boxes are utter crap!, we have been robbed of our analog system :-(
Cool Set!, I think Zenith and RCA,s were about the best american made sets!, BTW your TV vids are so much better to watch now without all the flashing!
I have the same set but the case on mine is all white plastic. I've had it for twenty years and the issue was when you tuned the station you lost the sound. I'm going to have to do something with it soon.
That rejuvenating stuff is hit or miss, I popped the green and the red on an 18 v a s p 22 and they came right back improved as it ran and still producing a good picture a year later I thought that it was going to be dead in a month after doing that I popped it with a super Mac on rejuve one
Never took the time to figure out one of those and its composition. The yoke on this is fraggile enough that id be worried about taking it and the sleeve out
I had one just like that my back was the same color as the front and on the one I had there was one transistor on the bottom of the chassis no circuit boards it looked just like that on the inside but it had one black transistor in towards the middle of the chassis on the bottom does yours have one transistor
@@JordanPier thanks for looking mine had a little half circle black one on the bottom it would be easy to miss Is high voltage the same as color tv let's say a 19 inch color and black and white
Probably a lost cause but I have the 13n15 thats in beautiful condition but the crt went to air in shipping. Does anyone at all have one they’d be willing to sell or another set?
if nothing goes BANG right in ya face, then that ain't no fun...I had an arc going between two pins of some resitors, I was looking with my face very close to the aria when all of the sudden...no warning, big blue Bang, and I was d.... b... you want to play tricks on me, I just took a screwdriver and right there, while the circuit was still hot I cracked those pin a little bit further from each other...my ears where ringing a full hour after that...the next day I got zapped real good by a color crt 24kV, didn't needed coffee all that day...learned a lesson to make sure that the screwdriver is properly grounded before poking that huge propaganda tube ever again...😅
