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I could never understand why so many tv teks hated the tube type sets. They were built better, so why hate them? when I was younger, I would call local shops to see if they could give me some pointers on fixing up a set. like charlies uncle, I would get the same responce EVERY time. "Throw it away" It didnt take me too long to figure out that all TV shops have a common policy that "if its not ok, throw it away".
Last year I converged a zenith console and all the right hand dynamic coil spools cracked and fell apart. I went searching for them. So many shops around here couldnt figure out why I wanted to fix this type of set. I was told by rons TV service
"all the money in the world will not get you one of those" Guess what, the shop that I worked at (later on, Carmens TV) had a bunch of junk zenith chassis in the basement of his shop storefront. He was shocked to see that somebody had a use for them. That was rare experience. Its funny, most shops have a bunch of parts for the old sets, all the photofacts, but they DO NOT want to work on the set? Doenst make any sence at all, they are turning away profits.