Worst set to work on? I say the mid-70s GE projection set with the 12" single tube and leather bench seat. Can't remember (AND DONT WANT TO) the model #. It was 6' long, 4' high and had a horrible dim picture even from the factory. You'd have to remove 9,738 rounded-off bolts with bad threads that you can't reach anyway, then smash knuckles to bang the chassis slightly out to get to anything while on your knees, and slice your arms on the razor-sharp metal housing for the CRT. Then after changing the FBT and the CRT, you bang it back together and spend the weekend trying to get optical focus on it. I worked on two of them, which was two too many! And the worst non-bigscreen to work on would be the Toshiba color sets from the mid 70s with the modules sitting stacked 1/2" apart where you can't reach anything to troubleshoot. Great reliable TV, but impossible to work on.
Charles
Last edited by Kaye-Halbert TV; 11-29-2005 at 03:32 AM.
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