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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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Sony had a big black XBR set that had an exploding back. They hung about 20 lbs of speakers on it. Pull the back & everything was in little pieces on the
floor. Part NLA. I headed off a few more at the door. The corner screws
were already mostly broken out. One more snuck in & another tech opened it
& it exploded. I wouldnt take one in. I told them to bring it SFS & scream
bloody murder. 5 yr old TOTL set junk.
73 Zeno
LFOD !