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I read somewhere that CM dropped tubes in '72-'73. Every CM solid state set, up through the mid '80's, that I've seen had an NEC chassis. A few years ago, someone gave me a solid state 23" delta gun CRT '74 CM combo that was in a cabinet similar to yours. The TV chassis was built by NEC, the CRT was made by Westinghouse, the stereo chassis and speakers were some cheap made in Taiwan crap, and the record changer was a cheap Glenburn. The set had "instant on" and the CRT was toast. Given the other problems it had, I junked the set. The cabinet was very cheaply made and the whole thing was heavy as lead.
I don't have a problem with the older CM tube stuff; but, their solid state TV's were, IMHO, the most overpriced, overrated junk of anything out there.
I once saw a late '80's 19" CM TV/stereo combo with a goldstar TV chassis in it and some of the late '80's CM consoles were actually rebadged RCA/Thomson sets. I recently junked a '94 CM console that was a rebadged Zenith, all the way down to the dead Zenith CRT.
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