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I blame WW2 for a lot of it. That's when mfgers learned how to make stuff, cheap, nasty, & quick...I have several "El Cheapo" pre-war radios-Little Arvin 2,3, & 4 tube sets- & they still work satisfactorily. Admittedly, I had to have them "gone thru", but that's not necessarily the fault of the radios themselves-a bad wax cap is a bad wax cap, whether its in a 1938 Arvin that cost $9 new, or in a RCA AR-60 from '35, that was $495 new...That's all they HAD back then. Even the really nasty AA5 sets from the tail-end of the tube era-Say, circa 1965 or so-CAN be fixed if you really want to. But all but the really TOTL stuff today is about shazbot if it dies-could be some "dedicated" specialty IC or some wonky plastic casting that has "dried out" & crumbled away-I've run into that quite a bit, too.
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Benevolent Despot
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