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Had one that had a bad flyback...but the parts set I had given up on had a perfectly good one. That donor set has fixed like six sets now with the three pots in back, flyback, CRT, yoke, antenna...and I'm always screwing around with mixing the cabinet and knob/switch colors.
These are actually reliable enough that I have bought a couple that were REAL sorry looking with the intention of using it as parts.....but will find even the sorriest looking ones to power up and be perfectly okay. One was so bad looking I threw the BUSTED up cabinet away....and "breadboarded" the set....on an actual breadboard. That set still runs PERFECT on my coffeetable all open like that. I just attack it with some canned air every month or so :-P
That set is one of the chassis with the A/V inputs.....so between it and a 5" Magnavox 5" color set on the coffeetable (also open and with A/V)....I have two nice "workbench" sets I can use for playing with any sound or video projects. Using that set even as we speak to play with a little Radio Shack "TV tennis game" (Pong) kit that I'm building just for fun (and will use as another A/V tool most likely).
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My current "holy grail" is trying to get enough parts together to get a Singer TV6U going. Been kicking my ass for nearly a year now :-P
Last edited by AiboPet; 11-20-2012 at 08:48 PM.
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