Tried thumping the side of the cabinet?

yeah but that only reely helps when the tuner hits a bad spot, that needs to be cleaned too. it didn't help with the picture issue. i looked up in one of my books that it might be a bad cap in that circuit or something but I haven't had the time to reely go in to it and I need schematics.

It'll be worth the effort. A lot of people don't appreciate the workmanship back then.

yeah thats what i say too. I have some TVs from the late 40s one i got working but it looks like its got little white rasters at the top of the screen and I think I can fix that. the other one i dont have pics of yet on here its a 48 westinghouse

Tried thumping the side of the cabinet?

It didn't work for Homer Simpson watching Prairie Home Companion: "Be funny! >whack!< "Be Funny!"

Nice! I have a 1960 Zenith console in my living room. I didn't want to bother restoring it, so I ended up gutting it and replacing the CRT and all with parts from a much newer TV. It really fools a lot of people, plus it's in color and has a remote.

Wow, is that model from the 70's or something?

this one i i think is 50s or 60s that is a guess because I collect more of the 40s TVs

OMG I spelled Zenith wrong.... not that my spelling is that great to start with

Oh Lord I remember when TVs looked like this - you could buy the same picture tube in like 2 dozen different wooden cabinets - "Italian Provincial" (the one my folks had) "Danish Modern," "Colonial," etc. You had to adjust the amount of color (from black and white to radioactively oversaturated) and its tint (from normal tones to sickly green ones) yourself via two knobs on the set. It took me a year and a half of solid pestering and whining to get my folks to buy a set like this. In fact, so few shows were broadcast in color they had to introduce them with animation like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIxGyrQz_e8

Back in the day the top of the line was a "home entertainment center" - something about twice as long as this with an FM stereo radio and a turntable under a hinged lid along with the TV. Saw one of those on the sidewalk waiting for the garbage truck not long ago, where it belonged here in the 21st century.

I'm sure you're aware you can't watch cable or broadcast on this analog set without a converter box now that all broadcasts are digital...

And that's it for today's edition of "Nostalgia Time with Comus"...

What year is it, do you know? It sounds like the picture control circuit might be bad, is it a color or black & white TV? I don't know too much about these old sets, but I used to tinker with them many years ago just for fun, you might want to look at the the picture tube emitter on the end of the picture tube, it could be out of alignment. Be careful cause these old sets even when off hold on to high voltages, so shut off and unplug it before doing any work in back. Also, if you have a magnet wave it in front on the glass screen and see how the picture is affected by it, when the TV is on, the magnet affects the electron beam emitted from the cathode on to the anode (screen) if I remember right. If all else fails, see if you can find a TV repair man that can work on it, if it's not too expensive.

well its B/W I think it is for the 50s or 60s and I have worked on TVs before but this one is bigger than my 7" philco from 1949.

Cool! I collect lapel pins and I made one from a plastic "PHILCO" logo I pried off a set on the sidewalk waiting for the garbage truck. The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens NYC has a display of old sets, including a b&w TV with a perfectly round screen - which happened to be the same model my grandmother owned.

hehe i have a zenith/LG cherry oak wooden console tv from 2003. The last of its kind and has a svideo port :D