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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Yeah-This brings up a point-Do WE do a better job re-doing this old stuff than when it was originally made ? I know in certain cases, we have better components-eg capacitors-now than they did "Back then", but I'd argue that we put an extra value of "Love" into these old sets that wasn't there when they were made.
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No doubt about that. When restoring or even simply repairing a set, we have the luxury of taking as much time as we want to make sure that things are done "right". This simply wasn't possible for production workers on an assembly line.
We can also choose to use better quality parts than the original manufacturer did. This covers cases where either the technology has vastly improved (capacitors), or where the original design cut corners to save money (higher wattage resistors to replace ones which have overheated and drifted).