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Old 12-16-2010, 02:30 PM
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Larry Melton (oldtvman)
 
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cold solder connections in tuner

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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425 View Post
Nice little collection there. That Colortrak2000 looks identical to the set that replaced our CTC-40 in 1987. It liked to turn itself on with volume at full-blast in the middle of the night.
The tuner modules on those sets were notorious for having ring cracks on the solder connections for the edge connectors, after soldering all connections on connector no more problems occurred
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