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I've also noticed a lot of sets that had their crts replaced within the first 5 years. One older gentleman sold me a pair of sets he had stored away: his first TV, a '53 Silvertone, has a replacement crt that tests dead as nails. The second set is a '60 Motorola with a somewhat weak crt. That TV was replaced by a color set sometime in the mid-60s. So, he ran those sets hard and could count on killing a crt every 3-5 years. I think also of the GE console my parents bought around '80 and how many 12-18 hour days it had. No wonder that it had a bad "red smear" by the early 90s. It was no surprise when one day a light show started in the neck.
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