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2) a hand wired 19" with plug in transistors. Seen a few.

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I've been looking for one of those for years, and have yet to find one, never even seen one outside of the Sams folders or Zenith service manuals.
Anyway, I've been following these threads, I use exactly the same set as my main watcher (25EC58 Zenith in the Avanti cabinet with the remote). I had to replace the tripler when I first got it, and it currently is giving me some weird intermittent problem with white horizontal lines flashing across the screen, but I like it.