[holmesuser01]

Those old System III's I made alot of money fixing them! I repaired alot of modules out of them, too!

My dad bought our first color TV in 1968. RCA 25". Ran about 2 days, and burned. I mean burned. The wall got scorched really good. My mother almost killed the dealer over repairs to the house. I never found what happened. The dealer tried to bring it back to us after its repairs, under warranty, of course. Mom said NO! We bought a 23" Motorola with lots of tubes. It ran great for 2 years, then we had to replace the kine. Then another. Then another. The set had a bad kine socket. That was all. I got the set in 1972 and played with it, while learning TV service, until 1974, when I got my RCA CTC-10--discussed in another thread.

I worked on RCA and Zenith from 1979 to 1994. Made alot of money repairing them, too. Also did warranty service for Phillips from 1981-89.

I'd rather work on a 40 year old TV anyday over this new junk.

When Goldstar bought up Zenith, they told us that things would stay the same. Yeah right.

Like was said before, when RCA went to that goofy tuner on the chassis, CTC-175... soldered hundreds of them. AND Thomson ACTED LIKE I WAS THE ONLY ONE having to solder up the tuner! Like I said, stopped in 1994.

I will never stop working with tubes.