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Originally Posted by DavGoodlin
RCA 19" CTC101s had many bad flybacks, but little else went wrong with Colortrak.
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RCA had a bad run of flys in 1981, maybe half a year. To their credit, they apparently solved the problem early as I had changed a lot of them in warranty, but never changed one after that.
It wasn't just the 101, it also affected the smaller 107/8/9/10 chassis of 1981 as well.
Back to topic, I remember when Admiral first came out with their modular lineup of SS chassis. They were good performers but we had a bunch fail in warranty and we stopped selling them.
The Sears/Warwicks were decent performers but they could be troublesome.
The GEs with griplets became glitchy about the fourth year of use, but I made a lot of money on them. My brother (the soldier) used to hard wire them top to bottom, but I'd wash the boards, solder the top, solder the bottoms, then resolder the tops. Took about half hour plus drying time - never saw one come back.
The problem is that the boards would outgas when reflowing the solder so I'd hold the iron on the griplet until the "boiling" stopped.
John