Question about a Zenith TV

[sean]

Captain,

I had sent you an email through VK offering a scan of the service manual. Send me an email back if you would like it.

[Captain Video]

Hi, I didn't received any e-mail. Maybe something wrong happened. Anyway, I got the service manual at the antiqueradios web site.

I thank you for your offer.

[Captain Video]

A real miracle has happened: the TV arrived with the CRT intact.

Why is it a miracle? Well, for the following reasons:

1) The neck protrudes a little bit outside the cabinet ( just a little bit, but enough to break ).

2)There's no back cover.

3) To my shock and horror, the chassis is NOT BOLTED TO THE CABINET!!!!

It is a miracle that the tube arrived here in one piece. After a 700km trip on the back of a truck, with the neck exposed and the chassis loose on the cabinet!!! It was the Hand of God, that protected this CRT, of that much I am certain!!!

And I ASKED the seller to make a back cover and to see if the chassis was really bolted to the cabinet. And he lied to me!!! He said that he was going to provide a back cover and that he looked inside and the chassis was bolted. He lied on both instances. I will never buy a TV from that guy again. He is a scoundrel.

The TV had both knobs, and because of the loose chassis it lost one of them ( the on/off knob ). Well, at least it is the lesser of evils. The worse thing that could have happened - the breaking of the CRT - was avoided!!!

The plastic mask that goes inside, around the tube, is cracked in several places and I will have to glue it together. I am thinking of using Super Bonder ( don't know for sure if you guys have that brand in the USA ), what do you guys think?

Also, it no longer has the radio knobs ( and the radio was also loose inside the cabinet, too ).

Together with this roundie Zenith TV came another one, a 1957 21 inch set that I bought from another seller. The other TV is a "Standard Electric" brand, it was manufactured here in Brazil by ITT. Both TVs are on the attached pictures.