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To answer Veggie-
In a sad coincidence, I had to toss out the Olympic set last week. It really pained me to do it, as for all appearances, it looked nice. But that's about all it did. Every time I had it fixed, it would run for about an hour, and then die out. Typically, total failure of the hv. Moyer's no longer stocked the flyback that I needed, and that's ultimately what put it down.
I have saved the crt and put that into my RCA set, and it looks great! I have hung onto the chassis as it has almost entirely new components (vertical wouldn't seem to lock until I replaced all the caps and resistors in that circuit). So Troy (as the set is so named) will live on in many other sets for years to come.
This set used the Olympic HB chassis, which according to SAM's dates to something like 1958. My chassis has a provision for the radio, which is an empty tube socket. The cabinet on my set was almost entirely dead space, with a puny, Muntzed chassis to run the tv. This model tv had a pair of speakers, which was pretty nice. I still feel bad about ditching Troy, as these sets are getting rare, but I guess I can't save them all...I still have the SAM's if someone was curious about any specifics on that model.
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