Odd factory goof been eating my lunch!

[dtvmcdonald]

Originally Posted by nasadowsk

Had an RCA tv come across my bench a while back. One of the connections for horizontal sync was crimped, but the terminal never soldered. I guess it worked well enough. Amazingly obvious when you looked under the set, no repairman ever bothered to hit it…

I've found those in several radios or TVs. The most egregious was my RCA
CT-100 1954 color TV. It had three unsoldered connections ... despite having been used quite a bit by one of the most famous collectors. It also had two resistors with the third band off by one. And worst of all ... one of those resistors is wrong on one of the RCA schematics! (There is an adjustment that compensates, but its all the way to one end if that's done.) All this was from the factory.