1942 Zenith 10S690 Radio/Phono Combo

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

If your buying it to flip and resell you probably won't profit, and may lose money post resto.

If your buying it because you want a nice Zenith console radio/phono in your home to keep and use then that is a fairly reasonable price for it...Granted if you have patience and attend enough radio swap meets you may find one as good or better for cheaper...The nicer radio only Zenith consoles I always used to see for $100 and up then I stumbled on my keeper set with perfect original finish for $20, it even worked fine after a variac power up...

I would be buying it to fix up and keep as I used to have an old Zenith Radio/Phono combo unit when I was a kid that my pastor gave me before he left the church I went to at the time with my parents.

Unfortunately the radio portion of that unit was no longer functioning by the time I got it, but the record player part still worked albeit with a loud 60 hz hum coming out the speaker (this was before I knew about replacing power supply filter caps on old radios) and I listened to old records on that old Zenith for about a year or so before the radio finally went up in smoke (the bad power supply caps finally shorted out the power transformer in the radio).

So then I had to get rid of it, which I then replaced it with a late 1950s Webcor (Webster-Chicago) blonde stereo record player, which worked fine for a couple of years until one day I went to turn on the record player to listen to some records and the record player just suddenly started smoking for no reason.

The weird thing is that the record player never developed a 60 hz hum to indicate bad filter caps (which at that time I still didn't know about doing my own repairs and trouble shooting of radios and record players, so that unfortunatly met the same fate as the old Zenith before it which was having the guts torn out of the cabinet and thrown in the trash and the cabinet tossed in the woods behind my parents house.

So actually it would be nice to get this old radio/phono combo for nostalgia purposes and because I've always wanted one of these old Zenith radios like these.

So does the tuning mechanism use a tuning belt or a tuning string?
How hard would it be to get the tuning knob/pointer working again, on this particular radio?