I also bought a low end model Zenith in 1997 from Sears. RIP. I didn’t get a color TV til around 1995 or so. Before that it was an off brand 5” B&W portable and PBS. My first proper TV was a Symphonic 19” basic color TV. I was so excited to have my own TV. I’m 37 too.
I used to own this exact same model tv. Bought it new in '86 and it gave me 10 years of flawless service. Ended up donating it to Goodwill when I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron.
That is perhaps the cleanest and near-pristine condition vintage CRT TV I've even seen. Even on the inside! there's hardly any dirt/corrosion/cigarette glaze or burnt spots on the board. Looks like a winner.
What a treat to find this video! I got this set new from the Ann Arbor, Michigan Sears in about 1986. If I remember correctly it cost about $325, which was all I could afford. That would be over $900 in 2023 money! This was a good set, and was in use for many years till I finally gave it to a relative for gaming, exercise videos, and such.
Back in 1986, my brother and i have a small color TV in our room. I recall going with my folks to Montgomery Wards in Panorama City, in Los Angeles to pick it out as a Christmas present for us boys. We used to leave that TV on all day and it worked for years without any issues. Reading rainbow, Sesame Street, Mr. Rodgers, Batman, and Cartoons on weekend mornings! A few years later we used it to plug our Atari 2600 and just used and abused that poor TV. No frills, no HD, simple volume, contract and brightness, we thought we had the best TV ever haha...Good memories. Thanks for Sharing!
I think that substrate board is the HV fail-safe circuit and thank goodness it doesn't have that goofy vertical module. As far as knob-tuned TV's, I recall one Sears 19" set with a knob tuner from about '89 that I trash picked. I don't remember who made it, but it wasn't Sanyo or Toshiba. I recall some "off brand" 13" color sets with knobs that were made as recent as '91-'92, but I think the CC mandate in '93 for sets 13" and above is what killed most of the knob sets. I have a cheap Chinese 12" B&W from '98 with knobs.
Yup its the HVSD module. I had good luck reheating the vert modules most the time. Good solid sets but the chassii before this had that damn Z0064 divider / rect. One summer we had a pile of abt 15 of them. Had to wait 6 wks for them to make them ! LFOD !
Remember them. 1st one had me chasing my tail looking for the short on the C. Finaly pulled the Sams. The only set I remember using that A Merry Christmas to you & yours.
@@krz8888888 Starting in the early 1970s the brown plastic were the more basic sets at a better price. The better sets had black with some silver highlights, like the CRT bezel. Notice no remote capability on this one, or automatic tint, color, or AFC. Many sets even in this period didn't have remotes, but most higher end ones did.
I remember working on a few of these back in the day. These were pretty good sets with a good picture. Pretty simple. Basic. :) Cheers! Good set! 🍻 -AL
We had a set just like that, but the Sanyo version. Used it out on the farm in the shed. Sound was always a problem. Luckily we usually watched channel 6 and just tuned in the audio portion on the radio at 87.75.
Good that set uses a standard vertical IC. I think the most common ceramic module was JU 0069 if I remember, it's been awhile. Had a very few successful repairs using silver solder on the ceramic substrate and soldering the pins.
Jeez, I have forgotten too much about CRT gray scale setup. My grandfather taught me decades ago how to do it, but I forgot too much. I do remember he used the setup as a starting point, then made sure the set had proper gray at high brightness as well as low brightness. Some have drive, screen, and bias pots (3). Do you have a video of the proper sequence?
Not bad at all, chocolate case that looks in perfect condition. Shame the camera reacts badly, but works perfect with anything else. The pcb looks tiny in comparison to old sets, don't sneeze as the pcb will blow away 😀 Hope you and your loverly wife are having a smashing christmas 😀
Do you have an autofocus/exposure lock feature on your camera? I am using an iPhone 12 which does, but I was thinking of using my Canon SD memory 1080p camcorder for my youtube videos, not sure if I can lock out the auto functions on it. My son just stopped over to borrow my 1988 RCA 20" to play his old Nintendo set on, it still has a bright sharp picture, but could use the grayscale tweaked. I could not find a service switch on that one, and I don't have the service manual on it. Still have a 12" degaussing coil from CG electronics, comes in handy for all the CRT monitors I have, including a 13" monitor for the Commodore 64, still nice picture.
He just scored 20 new sets! Should be some TV content coming up. Don't think he leans toward the pristine, however. Near death resurrections and smoker specials. Got to love the Shango, highly entertaining, long time subscriber.
I had one identical to this but it was made in 1988,I had it when i was 13 in 2006 till 2011. I have a photo of it so i can find another one somday as i still regret giving it away when i got a 25 inch magnavox monitor tv from the mid 80s.
I also bought a low end model Zenith in 1997 from Sears. RIP. I didn’t get a color TV til around 1995 or so. Before that it was an off brand 5” B&W portable and PBS. My first proper TV was a Symphonic 19” basic color TV. I was so excited to have my own TV. I’m 37 too.
I used to own this exact same model tv. Bought it new in '86 and it gave me 10 years of flawless service. Ended up donating it to Goodwill when I upgraded to a Sony Trinitron.
That is perhaps the cleanest and near-pristine condition vintage CRT TV I've even seen. Even on the inside! there's hardly any dirt/corrosion/cigarette glaze or burnt spots on the board. Looks like a winner.
What a treat to find this video! I got this set new from the Ann Arbor, Michigan Sears in about 1986. If I remember correctly it cost about $325, which was all I could afford. That would be over $900 in 2023 money! This was a good set, and was in use for many years till I finally gave it to a relative for gaming, exercise videos, and such.
Back in 1986, my brother and i have a small color TV in our room. I recall going with my folks to Montgomery Wards in Panorama City, in Los Angeles to pick it out as a Christmas present for us boys. We used to leave that TV on all day and it worked for years without any issues. Reading rainbow, Sesame Street, Mr. Rodgers, Batman, and Cartoons on weekend mornings! A few years later we used it to plug our Atari 2600 and just used and abused that poor TV. No frills, no HD, simple volume, contract and brightness, we thought we had the best TV ever haha...Good memories. Thanks for Sharing!
I think that substrate board is the HV fail-safe circuit and thank goodness it doesn't have that goofy vertical module. As far as knob-tuned TV's, I recall one Sears 19" set with a knob tuner from about '89 that I trash picked. I don't remember who made it, but it wasn't Sanyo or Toshiba. I recall some "off brand" 13" color sets with knobs that were made as recent as '91-'92, but I think the CC mandate in '93 for sets 13" and above is what killed most of the knob sets. I have a cheap Chinese 12" B&W from '98 with knobs.
Yup its the HVSD module. I had good luck reheating the vert modules most the time. Good solid sets but the chassii before this had that damn Z0064 divider / rect. One summer we had a pile of abt 15 of them. Had to wait 6 wks
for them to make them !
LFOD !
@@tomj4506 Then, there was the one with the goofy HOT, where the case was either the B or E (I can't remember), instead of the C.
Remember them. 1st one had me chasing my tail
looking for the short on the C. Finaly pulled the Sams. The only set I remember using that
A Merry Christmas to you & yours.
@@tomj4506 Thank you and same to you!
The way this TV turns off is really satisfying.
Cool! 🙂 Interesting how they were still using the brown plastic on the front, signaling a Sears "Good" vs. Better or Sears Best.
Tell me more, which color meant what ?
@@krz8888888 Starting in the early 1970s the brown plastic were the more basic sets at a better price. The better sets had black with some silver highlights, like the CRT bezel. Notice no remote capability on this one, or automatic tint, color, or AFC. Many sets even in this period didn't have remotes, but most higher end ones did.
Here in the UK this set was branded Ferguson, they were pretty good
This was a sweet find!🤗
It's always great to find a near virgin piece of electronics. I'm still hoping to find a virgin Marantz 2500. 🙂
I remember working on a few of these back in the day.
These were pretty good sets with a good picture.
Pretty simple. Basic. :) Cheers! Good set! 🍻 -AL
I had a 9” Samsung TV like this in my kitchen growing up. Same tuner design. Early 80s too.
We had a set just like that, but the Sanyo version. Used it out on the farm in the shed. Sound was always a problem. Luckily we usually watched channel 6 and just tuned in the audio portion on the radio at 87.75.
Interesting. We got a Sears TV in 1987. It was stereo and fully digital. Seemed very very fancy to me at the time.
Pretty clean set, almost nothing on the dag...
Good that set uses a standard vertical IC. I think the most common ceramic module was JU 0069 if I remember, it's been awhile. Had a very few successful repairs using silver solder on the ceramic substrate and soldering the pins.
yep I still have silver solder .
Hi JP. Glad to see another video. A very Merry Christmas to you and yours.
And to you, sir!
Spotted 2 cracked joints there at L471.
Got it. Thank you!
Nice find.
Mint condition CRT, Nice find
too funny growing up my we had one very similar growing up but ours was electronic tuning . remember those touch tuning .
Jeez, I have forgotten too much about CRT gray scale setup. My grandfather taught me decades ago how to do it, but I forgot too much. I do remember he used the setup as a starting point, then made sure the set had proper gray at high brightness as well as low brightness. Some have drive, screen, and bias pots (3). Do you have a video of the proper sequence?
Not bad at all, chocolate case that looks in perfect condition.
Shame the camera reacts badly, but works perfect with anything else.
The pcb looks tiny in comparison to old sets, don't sneeze as the pcb will blow away 😀
Hope you and your loverly wife are having a smashing christmas 😀
sanyo made some good sets .
Do you have an autofocus/exposure lock feature on your camera? I am using an iPhone 12 which does, but I was thinking of using my Canon SD memory 1080p camcorder for my youtube videos, not sure if I can lock out the auto functions on it.
My son just stopped over to borrow my 1988 RCA 20" to play his old Nintendo set on, it still has a bright sharp picture, but could use the grayscale tweaked. I could not find a service switch on that one, and I don't have the service manual on it. Still have a 12" degaussing coil from CG electronics, comes in handy for all the CRT monitors I have, including a 13" monitor for the Commodore 64, still nice picture.
Pretty neat video! More of this type of videos buddy! Shango066 seems to be steering away from these types of video.
He just scored 20 new sets! Should be some TV content coming up. Don't think he leans toward the pristine, however. Near death resurrections and smoker specials. Got to love the Shango, highly entertaining, long time subscriber.
Shango fixes sets on his own dime no sane person would pay to fix. Which is awesome. Apples and oranges...
I bet that tv sat in a spare bedroom I picked up a low hour Sony 27inch XBR that was the same way I finally had to rebuild the switching power supply.
Great find!
Just sold to a collector Friday morning
Board looks a bit discolored where the power resistors are but not much
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Thankfully they others got me up to speed. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I had one identical to this but it was made in 1988,I had it when i was 13 in 2006 till 2011. I have a photo of it so i can find another one somday as i still regret giving it away when i got a 25 inch magnavox monitor tv from the mid 80s.