Quality of PC boards has improved over time. I've never busted a tube socket through a board(knock on wood), but then again I know the strength of PC boards, and thus try not to put much force on them...A tube socket on a PC board can't take a person's full weight like a chassis mount socket can.
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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
I've about had it with my CTC-36.
I've watched it for about 20 hours total. In that 20 hours, I've replaced about 15 tubes (went through multiple 5GH8s), blew a 1 kV ceramic cap, replaced the picture tube, and now that I've just installed 7 fresh tubes after getting a really dark raster, I have no raster and a buzz in the audio with no static.
I bet at least 2 of those 20 hours were trying to get some decent convergence on the #$%&@.
If there is anyone that can give me a reason NOT to send this set to the e-recycling station after being picked clean, speak now or forever hold your peace.....
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I try not to toss anything I can get any usable parts from, or that I can someday fix.
Don't worry about tube swap mistakes too much, I still make them occasionally. What drives me nuts is when I don't notice for a long time, or I make the dumb mistake of assuming a tube that was good before a breakdown is still good after the problem....I've wasted many hours chasing my tail on passive components when all that was wrong was a bad tube.
Convergence can be a real SOB on some sets.
On my roadside sylvania I finally got it back to how it was before the hv failure, but me and a friend decided to try and improve the dynamic convergence and only made it substantially worse....