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For many years, dealers would take trade-ins on a new set. It usually went in the front door of the dealer and out the back door for $25 off the new set.
My first CT100 came from a dealer friend of mine around 1976 who had taken it in on trade for a new RCA color set. He called me and asked me if I wanted it because he knew I fixed up sets and resold them. Easy then, usually just tubes. The cap problem was yet to come. Yes I said!
Back then, it was just an old set, but I knew it was something different. And it still worked well until the vert xfmr went. From Rockford, IL it would pick up Madison, WI on rabbit ears. It was the start of my hobby. It ended up with RCA a few years later to add to their collection in Indianapolis.
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05-01-2009, 10:56 PM
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