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I always liked the RCA CTC169 chassis and that was probably their best Thomson-era chassis. The main problems they had were capacitors in the power supply that would cause the B+ to skyrocket and blow the HOT, and those caps would sometimes blow the chopper transistor and driver IC. On those, you had to use the correct RCA parts, or the set would not hold up. I knew of one TV technician, who was not all that great, who'd slap whatever kind of old HOT that he could find on a used board in a 169, and then talk negatively about the set when it blew in 3 days and he got a callback. I tried to tell him what he was doing wrong, but he wouldn't listen and told me that he was just going to stop working on 169s. I told him to send them all to me because I liked working on them and I rarely ever had one come back to bite me.
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