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Originally Posted by zenith2134
Yes, sadly these all became a race to the bottom in terms
of quality. We all know Sony was not even immune--the late 90s and 2000s huge trinitrons had such bad cabinets it was almost criminal.
When I get enough courage, I want to really dig into my storage and find a 1977 Sanyo 19" color in the steel cabinet.
You may have seen this model, also common under the Sears name. Rotary tuner, beefy TO-3 HOT, but not a modular chassis. It has a mainboard, with an additional power supply board containing a full wave bridge. Best part is that it is an early inline with simple convergence. You could get them perfect.
Now those were a cheap set done right.
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I used to see a lot of those Sanyo/Sears "tin can" sets, in both touch-tune and rotary tuning. I've even seen one or two with the single-knob varactor tuner.