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On Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:52:11 AM UTC-4, DhiaDuit wrote:
I own an old Zenith computer, and a whole slew of old Zenith radios, and
one Zenith 21'' screen wood cabinet floor model color TV set I bought in
1965 when I got out of the Army.

Is the Zenith TV still working ? Some of them horizontal output tubes cost a
pretty penny these days...


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Horizontal output tubes are childs play in contrast to the biggest problem
in those early Zenith color sets: the flyback transformer. Zenith flybacks,
much more than in other brands, tended to develop internal arcing that
caused them to eat themselves in spectacular fashion. I've seen several that
had nothing left but a burned coil of copper surrounded by the ashes of what
used to be the insulation.