Bringing up a 1960 Remote Zenith - Videokarma.org TV - Video

Electronic M · #1 12-25-2021, 01:15 AM

Published a new video this week: https://youtu.be/eKFUHbhij-8

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

Kevin Kuehn · #2 12-25-2021, 12:06 PM

I found that to be enjoyable and informative, plus your voice is perfect for spokesperson and commentary. Doesn't hurt that you can explain things clearly without following a script. Overall I believe you have a promising future in television.

Electronic M · #3 12-25-2021, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

I found that to be enjoyable and informative, plus your voice is perfect for spokesperson and commentary. Doesn't hurt that you can explain things clearly without following a script. Overall I believe you have a promising future in television.

Thanks. Though there's probably 20 minutes waiting, pregnant pauses and "uhhh" edited out of the variac portion of the video alone. Lol. I try to trim as much unessential time and monologue errors out as I possibly can to avoid wasting people's time/making it more boring.

madlabs · #4 12-25-2021, 06:25 PM

Fun stuff! I want one of those.

Tube TV · #5 12-26-2021, 01:34 PM

The Zenith came up pretty nice. I would be reluctant parting it out. The cabinet looks like it's in really nice shape.

Cool a new tv repair channel to watch. Nice work Electronic M

Electronic M · #6 12-31-2021, 08:59 PM

Part 2 is out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHGsZFslW2Q

Electronic M · #7 12-31-2021, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Tube TV

The Zenith came up pretty nice. I would be reluctant parting it out. The cabinet looks like it's in really nice shape.

Cool a new tv repair channel to watch. Nice work Electronic M

The cabinet was minty under all the dirt I bought it with...Was.

After filming this week's video I got a copyright flag on that stupid color movie I was using to demonstrate the set. I edited the video down, to avoid the flag but expected it to respawn on the new edit and decided to try and refilm the segment...When I took the set off the furniture dolly the back leg snapped off (including the glue dowels going through it), the front leg all but came off as it's glue failed, and the set fell backwards on to my 1 of 7 known surviving 1957 Motorola 21CT2 color set.... The Motorola was almost unscathed but it scratched 2 big notches out of back of the top veneer... Splintering the veneer and the particle board underneath it such that I can't find all the veneer it lost and have to deal with missing substrate....Needless to say I was livid, and the footage I shot was interesting... There's an unreleased angry edit of the video with the damage.

The kicker to the whole story is about 3 hours later when the original video that before filming I edited down to eliminate the copyright clam got re-uploaded it didn't get the copyright clam so the re-shoot that broke it wasn't even needed. That same night (yesterday) I also had a mysterious new mechanical jam on my Capehart Turnover Changer I'm working on...Some days you can't win.

Tube TV · #8 01-01-2022, 12:45 PM

Damn that sucks. Sometimes it seems that the nicer the cabinet is the more chance there is of the cabinet getting beat. And if the cabinet is trashed nothing will happen to it.

Same with fresh paint or varnish. I've got so I'll only spray paint when I know no one will be stopping by for days, especially larger stuff where I'm using the air sprayer.

I have also had bad luck with radios that look minty being tough dogs. I have a little RCA nipper V radio bakelite AA5 that was only issued in Canada, and as minty and nice as it looks it has had one problem after another. I'm thinking now it might have silver mica disease, pretty much cause there's nothing left to go wrong. First is was a intermittent that would show up at random. I think now it works for about a hour and drifts off the station and goes dead.

If I had picked it up in a damp musty shed and changed the filter caps it would have worked fine.