1985 GE BC-A Color TV

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Originally Posted by Jon A.

....Take care of the griplet issue and you'll have quite the showpiece...

This. Ain't. A. Griplet. Set.

The BC-A chassis is probably the most reliable of the late GE's - you are thinking of the AA/AB and AC chassis from the 80s. Those and the EC/EM chassis made $$ for servicers.

The later PC and PM (cousins in time with the BC-A chassis of the OP's set) also were prone to problems - with a Vertical cap (100uf/50V, C621) and a few flybacks. Nothing major like the griplet sets, and once you replaced the vertical cap (use a 100/100V), they were great sets. One 19" PC chassis set was my daily watcher for 3 years until I got a curb-crawl 20" Sony. I couldn't sell the GE - it had a pre-UL testing "red label" CRT, and was a mock-up set with no model number. It was a test bed for GE's Engineering Dept at the Portsmouth plant. I still have some of the Engineering Dept. "junque" from that haul/auction.