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Revisiting my 7S363
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Today I pulled the chassis from the Zenith 7S363 console that I "finished" a few months ago. It was an OK player and received the close local stations without too much trouble.
As this was my first attempt, there were quite a few issues I wanted to revisit and plenty of "should haves" and "wish I had knowns."
My major goal is to get the best I can out of this set. I know it's not a crown jewel kind of set, and will never be the black hole of RF that I wish it was but I love the cabinet and it will forever be the first one. Along with my major goal, I am getting basically zero action on the eye tube. I already checked the resistor in the tube socket, and have come up with almost bang on 1 Mohm. My plan is to go back through and check the resistors. Did I mention the should haves or wish I had knowns? After looking at the underside, I realized my old resistor knowledge is far from complete. I have the color codes for the dogbones (I think) with the body, end and dot colors. The problem is that I see some that look like modern-ish colors with bands, but they don't ohm out like I think they should as well as some that are not quite dogbones but don't look like the others.
Does anyone have a link to a primer of the different types of codes and how to read them? I want to do this right and have the set at 100% before I start the hard stuff including a 16B cathedral and my latest acquisition an RCA 9T. Quite frankly, these two scare the crap out of me and I don't want to booger up two highly collectible set that will be the RF black holes that I seek!


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Revisiting my 7S363 - by LedHed - 06-15-2012, 11:28 PM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by rghines1 - 06-16-2012, 11:22 AM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by morzh - 06-16-2012, 12:41 PM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by codefox1 - 06-16-2012, 02:46 PM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by LedHed - 06-16-2012, 07:57 PM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by morzh - 06-16-2012, 08:02 PM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by TA Forbes - 06-16-2012, 10:45 PM
RE: Revisiting my 7S363 - by codefox1 - 06-17-2012, 03:19 AM



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