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Originally Posted by ARC Tech-109
At that time I wasn't interested in lugging the brutes around and they were looking to retire, I remember hauling a few of those big 30+ inch CRT's to the bench but never got into the RPTV's. I miss the days of the EZ triplers and sagging 3A3 heaters that took out the flyback.
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Man, triplers were great - they'd generally arc and burn through and people were so happy when the price to repair the TV was half of what they were afraid of what it would be because of the acrid smoke they'd belch..
As an ASC we had to have a test jig, so I didn't do much lugging. I also cheated a bit - if we had a big tube Sony that was dead, I'd just grab the chassis even though I didn't have any test jig adapters for them and just use a scrapped yoke and HV probe. I kept a bunch of yokes on the shelf for that reason. When I got the power and HV repaired as indicated by the HV probe, I'd just return the chassis.
John