Rebuilding the 15gp22: A final report

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That's a terrible shame. Your efforts have been much admired by me and my friends. I suppose we should be grateful that these component failures are the exception and not the rule for repairing vintage tvs.

This does remind me of a project I was involved with several years ago, where we were adding magnetic soundtracks to unexposed 8mm film (mag sound stock had been discontinued for some time by Kodak). About all we learned was how many different ways our system could fail, and after untold grief, we only had a few rolls successfully done. But the other night, much like your newly rebuilt and now gassy 15g, I put on those old reels only to find those soundtracks have deteriorated to a muffled mess-in only a few years. Oh well. We can't have everything.