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indeed the pic is every bit as good as zenith or RCA. Its incredibly easy to service, as the tuner plugs in so you can pull the entire chassis very quickly.
The one thing you have to be careful of is not to lift the traces on the pcb.
The copper seem thinner than normal for say RCA sets. On the couple caps I did remove I had some trouble there. I exercised normal care with respect to desolder practice. Good thing there was very little to replace as the only one I did was a single bumble bee that was mounted on the bottom of the set. I was having some issues with the pin cushion tube running hot so I checked a couple cap in that circuit, this is when I noticed when resolding after checking (they were ok, I decided it was the tube) that the solder on the pad did not look "right". closer inspection proved the pad had started to curl. Anyway that being said its working fine with all the orig caps, including the electrolytics.
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