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The dilithium crystals are always the first thing I check. Haven't had a bad one yet! ;-) The tube is definitely strong, despite it having instant on. It's the first solid state set I've had that has it. I'd disable it if I planned on leaving it plugged in, but I have to say that it's really cool to have a set just pop on immediately. No other TV to this day can do that.
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As best I remember, they were a rare material that featured in various Star Trek series.
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My brother was in the Nuke business. Worked for Maine Yankee,
Westinghouse, Combustion Engineering. He knows about dilithium. As soon as the pols figure out how to tax it & create a massive bureaucracy we will have it. The military already does. 73 Zeno |
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Behold the dilithium.
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OT, but that may be the best color I've seen on one of those!!
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Agree with that. All these early GE SS sets were plagued with HOT, FBT
yoke & vert problems. Other than that they ran fine & were a BIG improvement over the trashy tube chassi. It would be fun to work on one again. Oddest thing was the shorted yokes. These sets had the least amount of wire & were wound wide open. I looked at a few shorted ones & couldnt find where. |
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Off topic related note: I bought a 1996 Nissan Sentra from Honda of Cleveland (Tennessee) some years ago. The financing was through Combustion Federal Credit Union from Chattanooga, Tennessee (Combustion Engineering had a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee). So I was a member of Combustion Engineering's Credit Union. The car was excellent, lasted 140,000 miles until hit from the side, and was reliable. $5000 well spent (and the trade in of one near death Chevy Astro Van, a 1993)
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The original portacolors have a tendency to grow tin whiskers and short out their own pots... after a heap of troubleshooting on one that had a dead IF I finally figured out it was the AGC pot and adjusting it with some contact cleaner brought it back.
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