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Originally Posted by Tubejunke
Thanks Phil for the lowdown on setting up the color set. One thing that I can say is that after the second viewing yesterday the "bleeding" was less than the first go around. I have resurrected quite a few old sets that were working when stored and after a little kicking and screaming they come to life and often do OK under my limited viewing demand. It seems to me that after all of those years "asleep", the sets get better and better with limited play sessions. Either that or they play for a few minutes and then give out. I hope this case is the former!
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I see this on just about every used set I wake back up. I call it secondary infant mortality/break in.
I have a feeling its due mostly to things drying out. Moisture in caps, coils and transformers...resistors..everything, as well as the tubes 'burning the dust off'.
Also the parts that are going to fail in the next 2 years will fail in the first few days. Thats the infant mortality part.