1961 Zenith Space Command 300 Remote TV resurrection/ Oldsmobile Transmission swap prequel pt2
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- So since I couldn't bring my self to part out the Coburg I found a worse condition Space Command console to part out to make the 1960 Winthrop console into a remote set then did a resurrection video on it.
Also an up date on the unreleased transmission swap I did back during the summer.
I haven't gutted this console out as a remote parts donor yet, but will in 2 weeks from the premier of this video. If you want to save it from that fate act fast. Below is the marketplace listing for this console.
/ 839433567223693
Interesting, if you watch Home Alone 2, Marv and Harold are stuck in the basement of The Brownstone, they use an almost identical TV, to make a makeshift ladder to climb out of the basement.
I remember that. It probably was a different cabinet model. (I remember thinking it looked like the Zenith Coburg I did a video on a while back.) In 1959 Zenith had no less than 5 different double wide cabinet styles similar to this.
I forget what program those came from.
Transmissions and Televisions! Gotta love it! 🍻 CHEERS!
Very interesting! Vertical circuit's have always been a mystery to me. Gotta give you credit, in the name of science of course, that you stayed with it so long. Thanks for hanging in there and posting it.
Tom - great job on the Zenith and the Oldsmobile. Both are beautiful and unique objects of art... You live a double life doing car restoration and electronics. You need a big huge warehouse sized shop! Once again, thanks for the humor and entertainment - and - The Groove Tube. I was laughing out loud with you even though I have seen that movie dozens of times. My college buddies and I watched that over and over while we were at UWM decades ago. The jokes never fade, must be the Wisconsin sense of humor, I guess...
Thanks. That video is a college memory for me as well. I'm pretty sure it's out of print, and the copyright is not being enforced (which is why I could play so much of it here). I only have it because mid way through college as I was starting to collect Betamax I picked up Zenith's first deck with an ancient Beta home dub of the film...Some college buddies and I ended up watching it and passing around a DVD dub I made.
2:19:56 What is the name of this "white dot" phenomenon in English that appears when the TV is turned off? I am from the Soviet region and I remember that we also had an older CRT monochrome TV. As a child, I loved it when the picture shrank to a small bright dot when I switched it off and I sat there in front of the TV until the dot disappeared. (Sometimes I turn the TV off and on just for that reason.)
It had a few names. Switch off dot, the man with the flashlight, etc. Basically if the HV and electron gun bias stayed up and running longer than the sweep (which normally moves the spot the electron gun makes horizontally and vertically faster than the eye can see to light the screen). This Zenith is on the late side for having the switch off dot...It could burn a permanent dark spot in the screen so many makers added circuits to suppress it.
Usually when there's a brightener is connected to the picture tube it means its life is nearing it death. I would avoid this type of picture tubes.
Exactly. I bought this set because it was cheap enough to be a remote parts donor, and a video subject.
That set is from the late fifties. By 1961 Zenith had gone to a rectangular square tube with no rounded edges
The Chassis is a 16D20...The D letter indicates the model year. B was 1959. C was 1960 and D was 1961.
The year letter would be in both the chassis number and cabinet model number.
@@tomcarlson3913 According to Sans the 16H20 chassis was 1962 and the 16M20 chassis was 1965. Now the Sams were a year later than the sets model year
Dude is tasting the sludge from the pan !
Well sometimes a guy needs a chemical composition exam of a substance without the lab costs...As long as a guy spits it out off camera no harm done and some knowledge gained.
It's substantially less unpleasant than accidentally swallowing a little gas siphoning.
Also the original ATF in these transmissions (really all ATF before the 70's and all Japanese ATF into this century) contained whale oil (the original trans in the car was still FULL of it) which is probably about as healthy as the fish oil supplements ma used to make me take.
Why is my brain depicting those commercials at the ending here as terrifying?
The demonstration content was from a comedy film called The Groove Tube which parodied TV of it's time. (it was sort of Kentucky Fried Movies less well known twin done by members of SNL)
@@tomcarlson3913 granted I'm only 41 I had another friend in high school that him and I would always watch stuff like this and we were the only ones that thought it was funny or much less entertaining.
@@sabbath7081 You've got a decade more watch time opportunity than me.
Zenith was always very big in product placement in the movies and TV
Nice job on the TV. I like the blue rotary phone. Actually I like the other one too. Must be a bit older with the triangle shaped handset grip. What was that lady cooking. Kind of looked like bricks.
The Black phone is around 30 years older. I filmed fixing those phones, and almost made it part of this video. I'm probably going to fix a few more phones to add to that and make another phone video.
The short answer to what she was cooking is comedy (the groove tube was a film spoofing TV). It looked like fruit cake...Which is basically an "edible" brick.
Thank you Tom, always fun to watch,
I'll buy it !!!!!
Is this console for sale ?
You're too late. I sold the cabinet the morning after this video premiered...several weeks ago. Better luck next time.
😭 anything else for sale ?
@@lkmsl No TVs right now (I'm probably going to next be selling TVs before the May ETF meet). I am trying to sell the Zenith Transoceanic Radio from another video.