03-21-2025, 09:53 PM
Hey Rich,
WARNING! If you think like me, seek help!
I have a couple of these Zeniths and one DuMont battery / Line power 4 tube portable with the original can caps and they actually work. Of course, others were bad.
Forgot to post this in previous posts. There was one of these or a similar Zenith model, chassis only in the Clinical Chemistry lab of a major Jewish hospital in Brooklyn, for years. I used to service this lab for the company that I worked for. Chassis and knobs only. Someone likely donated it to the lab after shattering the Bakelite case. Again, this is a hot chassis set. I warned them about this; it never seemed to bother them. They kept it on a classical music FM station. Again, was a great sounding radio!
As to stuffing, that is a personal choice. I don't know how valuable the radio is. The only time I stuffed caps was on my RCA 6BT Farm set, and mostly because these caps had loose paper tubes with disks as end caps. Popped out and back in really easily. Also stuffed on my Philco 20.
WARNING! If you think like me, seek help!
I have a couple of these Zeniths and one DuMont battery / Line power 4 tube portable with the original can caps and they actually work. Of course, others were bad.
Forgot to post this in previous posts. There was one of these or a similar Zenith model, chassis only in the Clinical Chemistry lab of a major Jewish hospital in Brooklyn, for years. I used to service this lab for the company that I worked for. Chassis and knobs only. Someone likely donated it to the lab after shattering the Bakelite case. Again, this is a hot chassis set. I warned them about this; it never seemed to bother them. They kept it on a classical music FM station. Again, was a great sounding radio!
As to stuffing, that is a personal choice. I don't know how valuable the radio is. The only time I stuffed caps was on my RCA 6BT Farm set, and mostly because these caps had loose paper tubes with disks as end caps. Popped out and back in really easily. Also stuffed on my Philco 20.
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Best Regards,
MrFixr55
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