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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42
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It's too bad Eddie VanHalen passed.
Phosphor/shadow mask defects are not uncommon especially in early color sets. By the mid 60s things were better but lower tier brands still would have grade B CRTs into the early 70s. I've got a late 60s Airline rectangular with similar defects on its original CRT.
You can sometimes find primo sets with the issue when the CRT has been swapped.... Normally customer sets would get grade A or B CRTs but repair shops that would do slap dash reconditioning on trade ins to resell them would sometimes use grade B and C CRTs since margins were tight.