Zenith A1512J restoration

[holmesuser01]

Your set looks great. I love the bugeye sets.

[bandersen]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

According to the former post, you said that AES didn't have the proper values. That's why I was inquiring about the pots.

Oh, that's right. AES only had some of the pots I need - 250K and 500K. I'll make do with what I have for the others.

[bandersen]

I almost forgot to finish off this restoration thread!

Here it is post alignment and finally all back together. I should also mention that this is actually a model A1511G not A1512J.

[Sparky]

Very nice! I've seen your Youboobtube videos also. Nice work and explanation for the uninformed. (I am informed but like to watch any way)

About Zenith I love their little capacitor look-alikes for the integrators and their blue turned brown defective disc caps. Horizontal and other tube sockets that break away from the chassis because of not enough solder on their solder cup/mounting pins. Don't even get me started on 4 legged capacitors!

Sorry about the pot rot I'll have to look for that. Thanks for the info

Soon I will be doing my '58 portable and 2 portholes as well.

PS (thanks again for the other thing).

[decojoe67]

Nice work Bob, as usual. For me, those Zenith's have one of the best "'50's" looks of all the portables. The "rocket" side pods do it. A collector friend has a nice working blue/white one for sale and I'm so tempted! I just need a bigger apartment now!

[Saturn5tony]

Originally Posted by bandersen

That reminds me of this neat YouTube video showing how a rare earth magnet reacts with different metals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIYXomRdLY

That was great but it seems like he was just slowing it down at 1st by sliding it sideways at an angel... (it kinda just look like it was dragging) but then you could see it work much better later, when he compared it to aluminum/brass and then with copper. I found someone that may have experimented before Andy Davies did a year or so before that, check out Les's better experiment that he did with a copper tube! Magnets are amazing things, especially Neodymium types!

http://youtu.be/kCq1u_x07S8