Greetings, friends! This video features the Zenith "Beachwood", model Y2063W1 which was Zenith's first large screen solid state TV receiver using the 1Y21B55 chassis.
It's a welcome shock when you upload. Wish you uploaded regularly but I'll take what I can get 👍 I mentioned this once on a video of yours a few years ago, watching your videos and hearing you talk takes me immediately back to my childhood in the early 70's. Guys who specialized in electronics who talked and looked a certain way, much like NASA guys in the 60's or Radio Shack guys in the 70's. Except for you and maybe a few others, you don't see these type of guys anymore, sadly.
Welcome back Doug. I think it's not an exaggeration to say we all are very glad you're still around and plugging away at nice vintage electronics. Keep it coming and by all means show us how you solve problems in this kind of equipment along the way :)
Very cool to see such a beautiful rare TV back in service. Looks like Chicago still has analog service. I believe the FCC says all analog channels are supposed to be out of service in July of 2021.
Incredible trip into the past, this is the exact model we had as a second set when I was 14 years old, on that same stand. What a trip into a time warp and how amazing you restored it to work perfectly!
Thank you sir. I was born in the year 1996 on February the 3rd. (It’s my 25th birthday today) I definitely appreciate this video, great energy! Blisss - Malaquias Peppér
There's something very cool about old tube TVs, they seemed to have a lot of character to them. Plus the sound was pretty amazing, and there was no need to buy a separate sound system like we have to do with HDTVs now. You do incredible work on these old appliances!
I really like the vintage music at the beginning and collecting such is one of my hobbies. Thanks for posting that information. Nice TV, my mom got a 1968 Hitachi 9 inch b&w watched that thing for many years.
He's back!! Thanks very much Doug for the tour of this Zenith beauty! The care you put into the restoration and the detail in which you describe the set is fascinating for me and I'm sure others who enjoy fixing old TVs. The Zenith history is as much a part of the appeal as the TV itself. Please tell us more!
The attention to the details is always impressive on this channel concerning keeping the records & originality and maintaining history absolutely a must for hobbyists!!! I totally respect this man. 👍👍
I went down a Dumont rabbit hole for a while this evening and stumbled into your VideoKarma post about your 1967 DuMont color TV. Please do a video on it sometime, that thing is very interesting inside and out !
I was strolling though a bunch of videos and instantly noticed this one because it belongs to one of the few RU-vid channels to which I subscribe. However, I immediately assumed it was from a number of years ago since dh4683 has been virtually inactive for the last few years, but I nevertheless took a closer look at the date - and it's from...yesterday?!! What a pleasant surprise. Anyway, I just finished watching it and, as usual, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love old TV's, radios and all the wonderful devices from a bygone era that you, dh4683, bring back to a deserved life. So, I'm sure I'm joined by many others who truly hope your next video comes out in a month or so - and not years. Thank you.
Glad to see a new video from you. I really enjoy your channel. It is like watching a commercial from '68. Love the music! Good picture and audio quality.
Yay drh4683 is back! So happy to see you are well and what a perfect video for your return. This is a wonderful Zenith tv set with the fabulous backdrop and music to boot. You have made my day and 2020 a lot brighter. Looking forward to more of your great works. Please keep them coming!
Lovely old set! Easy to forget how razor-sharp a black and white image can look ..almost enough to forget it's not colour! They certainly have a charm all of their own..
Good to finally hear from you! I liked some of your other stuff bc it's just so interesting to see old antiques like these TV's and the other stuff on your Channel!
Excellent Excellent video your work is simply impeccable, love seeing things from the 1970's manage to catch a glimpse of the room divider in the opening shot,bringing back memories as we too had the same room divider and tv cart👍👍
Wow, glad to see ya back, you been missed, hoping to see you around more now. I know it's a few days off still But, Thursday 26 2020, Happy Thanksgiving
We had this model in our TV store. Whenever a set had to come to the shop for repair, this was the set we used as a loaner. It was kicked, shoved, and abused in many homes through the years and just kept on working. As all Zenith's, a real workhorse. I, too, was surprised to see the transistors soldered into place. Unlike Zenith for sure. Not knowing the real reason why, maybe it was because Zenith thought it to be so reliable, they didn't need to have them as a replaceable part. Never sold this set; after 10 years as our loaner, I ended up giving it to a friend who could not afford a new TV. He has since passed away; don't know what happened to the TV.
Glad to see you back. I'd like to see a video on a Zenith 16Z7C50 chassis. I may have made it known that I got one of those last year with a 23 inch CRT that is shot. The last person to service the TV didn't put the socket back on correctly. The back slipped as as I was taking it off. The keyway broke and the tube lost vacuum. The drive controls were set high. I assume I finished off a tired CRT. It is super rare here in West Virginia to see a TV beyond the mid 80s.
Very interesting video. I always loved these old vintage 19" black and white sets. I used to have a Zenith tube type set, actually two. One was color and the other black and white. Unfortunately I do not remember the model numbers because I was only in high school and never paid much attention to those artifacts. The black and white Zenith was sold to an elderly lady that needed a second TV and the color Zenith was junked because the flyback failed. Now I have two solid state identical black and white Zeniths, probably the cascade model because they are solid state. They are both 19". I also have a color 19" Zenith that I repaired. All it needed was a new power cord and it works superior. I definitely want to get more videos made and uploaded so I will definitely include those Zenith televisions. Just a quick reference if you wanted to check; the black and white Zeniths have a silver control panel with a black strip on the left. That's where the volume, brightness and contrast controls are and the VHF and UHF tuners are reversed from yours, plus the numbers are white on the dials. I don't think these had pilot lamps and the UHF tuner clicks with a separate fine tuning knob on the outer portion.
Zenith was a sponsor of Bewitched. They had one like this stand and all on one of the early episodes of Bewitched in Darren's home office. A lot of people in them days had only one TV. Having a TV in a home office showed his upper status as a white collar worker other than the hard working blue collar worker.
Welcome back! I hope to get my hands on a vintage Zenith TV one day. They are hard to come by in my area. I may have to drive up to the Chicagoland area to find one.
I cut my teeth repairing these consumer staples, didn't see this solid state model but did run across a 1970 14A9C50 (SAMS 1079). It was not fully SS, but hybrid having the same solid state IF strip sub chassis and an integrated circuit chroma demodulator. I had earlier seen the 1965 25MC36 (SAMS 805) so the advance of just a few years was amazing.
