Who fixes transistor Transoceanics?

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hershey

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Hi-
I've got a gorgeous Zenith RD7000Y with a 500MDR70 chassis in near
pristine cosmetic condition that plays worse than a $4 drug store
cheapie.

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?

TIA,
Lew
 
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <glew1@aol.com>
wrote:

Hi-
I've got a gorgeous Zenith RD7000Y with a 500MDR70 chassis in near
pristine cosmetic condition that plays worse than a $4 drug store
cheapie.
Click to expand...
It's the speaker. See article at:
<http://www.radiointel.com/nr-d7000y.htm>
in the "Disassembly - Routine Cleaning" where he talks about the
deteriorated speaker gasket and fried push pull output xsistors.
They're in sockets, which makes replacement trivial.

Schematics and manuals:
<http://www.transoceanic.nostalgiaair.org/>

More info:
<http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/a/padgett46/transto.htm#Roy7000>

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?
Click to expand...
Dunno. It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
There are quite a few web sites with photos and storied by Zenith
Transoceanic owners. Some might be willing to do the repair or know
someone that can do the job. I once rebuilt a tube type B-600 series
radio. I spent countless hours restoring, only to have it disappear
when I moved residences many years ago.




--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
 
hershey <glew1@aol.com> wrote in message
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Hi-
I've got a gorgeous Zenith RD7000Y with a 500MDR70 chassis in near
pristine cosmetic condition that plays worse than a $4 drug store
cheapie.

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?

TIA,
Lew
Click to expand...

try
rec.antiques.radio+phono

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electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/
 
In article <afejb516s1umgs167stvlsj8n35kiih6dv@4ax.com>,
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
There are quite a few web sites with photos and storied by Zenith
Transoceanic owners.
Click to expand...
Zenith sounds very US to me - did they export?

--
*Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
 
On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com
wrote:

Hi-
I've got a gorgeous Zenith RD7000Y with a 500MDR70 chassis in near
pristine cosmetic condition that plays worse than a $4 drug store
cheapie.

It's the speaker.  See article at:
http://www.radiointel.com/nr-d7000y.htm
in the "Disassembly - Routine Cleaning" where he talks about the
deteriorated speaker gasket and fried push pull output xsistors.
They're in sockets, which makes replacement trivial.  

Schematics and manuals:
http://www.transoceanic.nostalgiaair.org/

More info:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/a/padgett46/transto.htm#Roy7000

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?

Dunno.  It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
There are quite a few web sites with photos and storied by Zenith
Transoceanic owners.  Some might be willing to do the repair or know
someone that can do the job.  I once rebuilt a tube type B-600 series
radio.  I spent countless hours restoring, only to have it disappear
when I moved residences many years ago.  

--
Jeff Liebermann     je...@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D    http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann     AE6KS    831-336-2558
Click to expand...
USA
 
hershey wrote:
On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com
wrote:

Hi-
I've got a gorgeous Zenith RD7000Y with a 500MDR70 chassis in near
pristine cosmetic condition that plays worse than a $4 drug store
cheapie.
It's the speaker. See article at:
http://www.radiointel.com/nr-d7000y.htm
in the "Disassembly - Routine Cleaning" where he talks about the
deteriorated speaker gasket and fried push pull output xsistors.
They're in sockets, which makes replacement trivial.

Schematics and manuals:
http://www.transoceanic.nostalgiaair.org/

More info:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/a/padgett46/transto.htm#Roy7000

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?
Dunno. It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
There are quite a few web sites with photos and storied by Zenith
Transoceanic owners. Some might be willing to do the repair or know
someone that can do the job. I once rebuilt a tube type B-600 series
radio. I spent countless hours restoring, only to have it disappear
when I moved residences many years ago.

--
Jeff Liebermann je...@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

USA
Click to expand...
I guess adding a thanks to Jeff for taking the time to track down the
information and further trying to help you, just required too much
effort on your part.
 
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:24:50 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
<dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

In article <afejb516s1umgs167stvlsj8n35kiih6dv@4ax.com>,
Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
There are quite a few web sites with photos and storied by Zenith
Transoceanic owners.

Zenith sounds very US to me - did they export?
Click to expand...
Very international. In its day, Zenith had offices in several
European countries, although I don't recall where. In the 1950's and
1960's, if you wanted to listen to international AM short wave
broadcasts, Zenith was the major vendor for portable radios.
Transoceanic radios was just one of their products. In 1979, they
bought Heathkit. They also manufactured computahs under Zenith Data
Systems. In 1999, they went into bankruptcy and were purchased by LG
which still uses the Zenith brand name:
<http://www.zenith.com>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Electronics>
<http://www.zenith.com/about/>
<http://electronicdesign.com/Article/ArticleID/20689/20689.html>

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
 
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:58:25 -0700 (PDT), hershey <glew1@aol.com>
wrote:

USA
Click to expand...
That's nice, but totally useless unless you enjoy travelling or
shipping cross country. See:
<http://radioattic.com/resources.htm>
for a list of antique radio repair people. I was rather hoping that
you might do some reading on what's involved in a repair, so that you
might either attempt it yourself, or know what to ask. Oh well.

Since you can hear audio, just walking an oscilloscope down the audio
chain should identify the section that's causing the distortion. I
would offer to fix it for you, but I don't think I could resist the
temptation to buy (or steal) it from you. Sorry(tm).

Incidentally, required reading for Zenith Transoceanic owners:
<http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Trans-Oceanic-John-H-Bryant/dp/0764328387>

You might find the asking price rather interesting:
<http://www.goantiques.com/detail,zenith-transoceanic-radio,1471722.html>

When a was a pre-teen brat, trying to grow up in Smog Angeles, we had
a gigantic Grundig console short wave radio. I would stay up far past
my bedtime, listening to 99% noise and 1% weak and garbled shortwave
stations. Unfortunately, there was no earphone jack, so nobody got
any sleep when I was listening. Moving the Grundig into the garage
was not an option, so a used Zenith Transoceanic T600 magically
appeared. It was no better at hearing SW DX, but had the advantage of
being portable. I spent many a fond evening playing SWL freezing in
the garage with the Transoceanic. It was also my first real repair
job, after I removed all the tubes for testing in the drug store tube
tester, and managed to mix them up when I plugged them back in.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
 
On Sep 23, 9:45 am, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:58:25 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com
wrote:

USA

That's nice, but totally useless unless you enjoy travelling or
shipping cross country.  See:
http://radioattic.com/resources.htm
for a list of antique radio repair people.  I was rather hoping that
you might do some reading on what's involved in a repair,  so that you
might either attempt it yourself, or know what to ask.  Oh well.

Since you can hear audio, just walking an oscilloscope down the audio
chain should identify the section that's causing the distortion.  I
would offer to fix it for you, but I don't think I could resist the
temptation to buy (or steal) it from you.  Sorry(tm).

Incidentally, required reading for Zenith Transoceanic owners:
http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Trans-Oceanic-John-H-Bryant/dp/0764328387

You might find the asking price rather interesting:
http://www.goantiques.com/detail,zenith-transoceanic-radio,1471722.html

When a was a pre-teen brat, trying to grow up in Smog Angeles, we had
a gigantic Grundig console short wave radio.  I would stay up far past
my bedtime, listening to 99% noise and 1% weak and garbled shortwave
stations.  Unfortunately, there was no earphone jack, so nobody got
any sleep when I was listening.  Moving the Grundig into the garage
was not an option, so a used Zenith Transoceanic T600 magically
appeared.  It was no better at hearing SW DX, but had the advantage of
being portable.  I spent many a fond evening playing SWL freezing in
the garage with the Transoceanic.  It was also my first real repair
job, after I removed all the tubes for testing in the drug store tube
tester, and managed to mix them up when I plugged them back in.

--
Jeff Liebermann     je...@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D    http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann     AE6KS    831-336-2558
Click to expand...
Thanks to all for your help and courtesies.
 
On Sep 23, 8:27 am, propman <prop...@nowhere.cam> wrote:
hershey wrote:
On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com
wrote:

Hi-
I've got a gorgeous Zenith RD7000Y with a 500MDR70 chassis in near
pristine cosmetic condition that plays worse than a $4 drug store
cheapie.
It's the speaker.  See article at:
http://www.radiointel.com/nr-d7000y.htm
in the "Disassembly - Routine Cleaning" where he talks about the
deteriorated speaker gasket and fried push pull output xsistors.
They're in sockets, which makes replacement trivial.  

Schematics and manuals:
http://www.transoceanic.nostalgiaair.org/

More info:
http://bellsouthpwp.net/p/a/padgett46/transto.htm#Roy7000

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?
Dunno.  It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
There are quite a few web sites with photos and storied by Zenith
Transoceanic owners.  Some might be willing to do the repair or know
someone that can do the job.  I once rebuilt a tube type B-600 series
radio.  I spent countless hours restoring, only to have it disappear
when I moved residences many years ago.  

--
Jeff Liebermann     je...@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D    http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann     AE6KS    831-336-2558

USA

I guess adding a thanks to Jeff for taking the time to track down the
information and further trying to help you, just required too much
effort on your part.
Click to expand...
Where do you get off making such an accusation? How do you know
whether I expected further exchanges with the author, and was going to
pass along my regards at that time?
Get a life!!
 
On 9/23/2009 5:31 PM hershey spake thus:

On Sep 23, 8:27 am, propman <prop...@nowhere.cam> wrote:

hershey wrote:

On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?

Dunno. It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.

USA

I guess adding a thanks to Jeff for taking the time to track down the
information and further trying to help you, just required too much
effort on your part.

Where do you get off making such an accusation? How do you know
whether I expected further exchanges with the author, and was going to
pass along my regards at that time?
Click to expand...
It's the impression one gets from someone who posts a three-letter reply
to a [any]-lined post, with no trimming or other niceties.

You may be well advised to "get a life" yourself.


--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
 
On 9/24/2009 6:31 PM hershey spake thus:

On Sep 24, 5:11 pm, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:

It's the impression one gets from someone who posts a three-letter reply
to a [any]-lined post, with no trimming or other niceties.

You may be well advised to "get a life" yourself.

Dude, the answer was succinct and completely responsive to the
inquiry. It (the reply) did not require "War And Peace".
Click to expand...
It was, as I said, just an impression.


--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
 
On Sep 24, 5:11 pm, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
On 9/23/2009 5:31 PM hershey spake thus:







On Sep 23, 8:27 am, propman <prop...@nowhere.cam> wrote:

hershey wrote:

On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com

Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?

Dunno.  It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.

USA

I guess adding a thanks to Jeff for taking the time to track down the
information and further trying to help you, just required too much
effort on your part.

Where do you get off making such an accusation?  How do you know
whether I expected further exchanges with the author, and was going to
pass along my regards at that time?

It's the impression one gets from someone who posts a three-letter reply
to a [any]-lined post, with no trimming or other niceties.

You may be well advised to "get a life" yourself.

--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
Click to expand...
Dude, the answer was succinct and completely responsive to the
inquiry. It (the reply) did not require "War And Peace".
 
hershey wrote:
On Sep 24, 5:11 pm, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
On 9/23/2009 5:31 PM hershey spake thus:







On Sep 23, 8:27 am, propman <prop...@nowhere.cam> wrote:
hershey wrote:
On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com
Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
alignment job?
Dunno. It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
USA
I guess adding a thanks to Jeff for taking the time to track down the
information and further trying to help you, just required too much
effort on your part.
Where do you get off making such an accusation? How do you know
whether I expected further exchanges with the author, and was going to
pass along my regards at that time?
It's the impression one gets from someone who posts a three-letter reply
to a [any]-lined post, with no trimming or other niceties.

You may be well advised to "get a life" yourself.

--
Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism

Dude, the answer was succinct and completely responsive to the
inquiry. It (the reply) did not require "War And Peace".
Click to expand...
Uh-huh...sure whatever you say. <plonk>
 
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:31:36 -0700 (PDT), hershey <glew1@aol.com> wrote:

:On Sep 24, 5:11 pm, David Nebenzahl <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
:> On 9/23/2009 5:31 PM hershey spake thus:
:>
:>
:>
:>
:>
:>
:>
:> > On Sep 23, 8:27 am, propman <prop...@nowhere.cam> wrote:
:>
:> >> hershey wrote:
:>
:> >>> On Sep 22, 11:20 pm, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
:> >>>> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:26:09 -0700 (PDT), hershey <gl...@aol.com>
:>
:> >>>>> Who can I trust this gem with to do a first-rate electronic repair and
:> >>>>> alignment job?
:>
:> >>>> Dunno.  It might help if you disclosed in what country you reside.
:>
:> >>> USA
:>
:> >> I guess adding a thanks to Jeff for taking the time to track down the
:> >> information and further trying to help you, just required too much
:> >> effort on your part.
:>
:> > Where do you get off making such an accusation?  How do you know
:> > whether I expected further exchanges with the author, and was going to
:> > pass along my regards at that time?
:>
:> It's the impression one gets from someone who posts a three-letter reply
:> to a [any]-lined post, with no trimming or other niceties.
:>
:> You may be well advised to "get a life" yourself.
:>
:> --
:> Found--the gene that causes belief in genetic determinism
:
:Dude, the answer was succinct and completely responsive to the
:inquiry. It (the reply) did not require "War And Peace".


No matter what your intention was, the fact that on-line communication does not
convey body language or facial expression, anybody reading your 3 letter
response could be forgiven for thinking you were just being curt or not grateful
for the detailed response from Jeff. BTW, what does "USA" mean regarding the
context of the information Jeff provided?
 
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