Designs we love to hate!

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by Zenith26kc20

The rotary VHF tuners that used conductive paint (like the stuff used on remote buttons) instead of metal contacts. The local tuner rebuilder hated working on them. He would bend the contact fingers to a spot that wasn't worn. And all of the contact area was covered by a white round piece of plastic, forcing the rebuilder to disassemble the entire horror!
Ball Grid Array ICs! JUNK!

Ugh, how I hated those tuners! Printed tuner stator contacts, and limited life. Korean sets had them, and we saved every Japanese tuner to replace them - the little Sanyo and Hitachi BW sets had tuners that were solid. PTS had a universal DIN tuner that would work, but it was 24 bucks - too much to use a replacement.