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I cannot agree with the originality of the contents of the underchassis having an impact on value; the outer cosmetics and the workability of the set should take priority.
Some might get fanatic enough to core out the old cylindrical capacitors and try to stuff the replacements inside to make the underchassis look like it did originally, but I personally could never be bothered. Nobody else besides the techie will care. I will go so far as to leave an old twist-lok can in place, even if it is excluded from the circuitry and axials installed underneath to replace it; I don't favor removing them and leaving the nasty-looking hole in the chassis top. But that's as far as I'm apt to go.
I look at it this way: any changes to a set are part of its long history--all repairs made to it tell a story. That has to be of some value in itself.
One set I've got here, an Emerson seems to have a replacement CRT made by a company that once existed in Springfield, MA--the Crown Company. Has anybody ever heard of them?
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