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Old 10-14-2017, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn View Post
.... I suppose the demand for CRT test jigs about disappeared overnight...
It's quite simple - most console chassis from 1974-on were modular, and the need to pull the chassis was diminished. Same reason no adapters were made for the Setchell Carlson modular color tube sets.

We ran two jigs - one was an RCA 14" or 15" portable for verifying bad CRTs in home (so the customer could see the chassis was fine), and one for tube sets in the shop. It left in the mid-80s, in favor of a VCR bench setup. Probably 200+ chassis across the jig from 77 to the mid-80s, and only one couldn't be fully adapted - a Sears-Warwick hybrid color set. We went back for the cabinet and had to fix it whole. With only 960 square feet of floor space (most of it for selling sets....), we preferred the chassis pull over the whole set.
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