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Griplets, the technicians nightmare.
The only way we ever got these sets reliable was to take a small jewelers screwdriver and make a small hole for a wire to run down the top trace and connect all of the circuit together and only solder the bottom side. Just resoldering them was futile, would fail in a very short time.
The EC chassis with the power supply behind the chassis and directly under the neck of the CRT had to be removed and redone.
The griplets were everywhere even in the tuner circuitry, Workman (WEP) even made a repair kit for the Wide Band Amplifier module.
Before production ceased on this chassis there were replacement boards from GE that did not have the griplets. I think the deflection and video had been redesigned to use bare wire jumpers instead of griplets.
Worked on a lot of those sets pretty good performers but most people just tossed them when they gave trouble out of warranty.
The Horizontal circuit gave some trouble with the Flybacks.
Like everything starting with the YM chassis.
You had to get a "grip" after a day of griplets !
Sure glad we had other brands to work on to break the pattern.
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