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Originally Posted by Electronic M
It is possible those tubular ceramics are good in 70s sets but they were the among the safety caps recalled in early 70s SS Zenith sets..
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Those Zenith caps weren't ceramics. They were wrapped plastic made by American Radionics IIRC. I think I may have one. I'll look for one tomorrow.
I changed a hundred or more of those for that recall campaign (along with some yokes, vert output modules, and CRTs) and the replacements were made (I believe) by Sprague. They looked like huge four lead Orange Drops.
But I did see some of those ceramics fail in GE SS TVs now that I think about it. Those were retrace capacitors on the horiz output, and if one opened, they would cause excessive HV and over voltage of the collector of the output, like the Zeniths did, but never blew a yoke or CRT. We learned early on that if a GE had a blown horiz output, just change the caps under the heatsink.
John