My new Colortrak!

[mbates14]

if it needs a rejuvenation at such low hours then the CRT was junk from the factory. like 90s Zeniths sets were.

I have a Magnavox TV that my parents bought new for me back in 94 and that thing still has a picture on it like it was new. However I can tell its starting to get tired as convergence/focus is drifting in the extreme corners. Its a daily watcher, has been since 94.

Surprised me for being a BPC set. Sure, I had to fix it a couple times. Once it fell victim to the very common 100uF capacitor failure in the horiz circuit that causes a scrambled picture. Then there was a 3.3uF non polar cap that dried out taking out the STR regulator IC.

After those 2 repairs I hadn't had to fix it again luckily. Only downside is its a hot chassis so there is full B+ on the coax line. cable company wasnt too happy about that a time or two when they were out. Now its hooked up to a modulator so it doesn't matter anymore, now that there is no such thing as analog anything anymore.