Predicta birth date, does your set have one?

[Eric H]

Well we know the original tubes were a catastrophe for Philco so I don't think it's at all far fetched for one to fail within months, or even days of going into service.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Eric H

Well we know the original tubes were a catastrophe for Philco so I don't think it's at all far fetched for one to fail within months, or even days of going into service.

+1
ISTR the early factory issued predicta CRTs had an obscenely high IN-Warranty failure rate. Twas far from unheard of for a new predicta to have a CRT replacement in the first few months of it's life.

[WISCOJIM]

I have a few extra head shells here, so I just looked at them. 1 out of the 4 does have a birth date written inside in pencil, down near the mounting neck. The other 3 had no such markings. Mine's a month older than Jonathan's.



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[init4fun]

Maybe the date was penciled in by the Philco employee who assembled them as a sort of "Kilroy was here" type of marking , since it seems to be on some , but not all of the Predictas ?