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Originally Posted by ctc17
Not to start a war here.....the mid 60s tvs on are not like the old bw stuff. The electrolytics rarely go bad. Zenith used some superior quality parts.
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I've found bad electrolytics in newer gear than that, but haven't worked on any 1960s Zenith sets, so I'll take your word that their parts are that good. Maybe I need to switch brands
I used to think that the brown/maroon "orange drop" types were pretty good, but not so much any more. This week I went back through an RCA CTC-11 that I restored a couple of years ago and replaced about ten of them. They had seemed fine at the time, but didn't hold up -- creating problems with vertical linearity and horizontal stability. Nothing is forever, I suppose.
Phil Nelson