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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
A friend of mine insistes that Soviet made tv's where bought in U.S.A. and Australlia, because they had a transformer, not live chassie. True or fake?
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If your friend is claiming that the presence of a power transformer
on a TV is evidence of Soviet manufacture, he is obviously wrong.
U.S. and Canadian manufacturers had roughly comparable numbers
of models with and without power transformers in the tube era.
It is true that by the late seventies, many brand name replacement
tubes were Soviet made. Around 1976 (I was 15), I went to Payette
Radio (long defunct radio parts store) in Montreal and bought a Sylvania
5Y3GT that was plainly marked USSR. I still have the tube to this day
in one of my radios.