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Love this thread!
I've probably repeated this story many a time in different topics, but....
I worked with my Uncle in his sales repair shop in the late 70's early 80's.
We sold Zenith, but our county was RCA-land. My Uncle's bread and butter were RCA repairs. At the time, fairly simple, the usual 6GH8A's.. and summer always kept us busy with flyback replacements. Most of my observations have been stated in previous posts in this thread by the techs that worked during that era, and I can especially relate to Zenith26KC20's post about the dread of working on Magnavox, but have seen a FEW that still survive with NO issues (must have been a good day on the assembly line).
Never saw a Motorola color set that wasn't a POS.....
It was interesting to see how some of these sets were about shot in their 10-14th year (circa 1980)
IMO... all tube sets are gonna require continual upkeep at this point. (they were getting unreliable 33 years ago) For most trouble free, I'd stick with a Zenith.. a 4-tube hybrid would be ideal.
Also.. a bit off-topic, but it's interesting to see now that much time has passed, the quirks the solid state sets have.
Example: early RCA XL-100 and Zenith CC2 are somewhat of a pain now, due to how the modules are mounted, and Sylvania and Sony's didn't have the longest lasting picture tubes......
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