As said a Zenith is the best tube color set to deal with.
With the steel chassis & hand wiring they just hold up best.
Even in the 70's we used to get RCA's & others that the PCB
& wiring was dried to a crisp. Never seen a Zenith dried up.
We used to buy 6GH8's by the gross about 3 times a year
from Zenith for 90% off. Nothin but problems no matter
what brand. With RCA's you also got to watch the tube
sockets, changed tons especially the pair up front. 5GH8's
were used in that first all tube 19" plastic RCA. I despised
that chassis, gave a nice pix but always needed an arm full of
tubes for the little problems. Too much heat I suppose.
So try a Zenith, at least when it craps out it wont turn to
dust working on it. & add a fan to anything..........
73 Zeno
