GE Portacolor II needs help

[joe111671]

Originally Posted by zeno

Agree with that. All these early GE SS sets were plagued with HOT, FBT
yoke & vert problems.

Zeno, any theories on why they had those issues? It makes me wonder if was bad design, or inferior parts. I also wonder why they scrapped it and kept making the tube chassis after this, when they performed better than the tube ones.

I found an ad that featured both versions, the SS model was $20 higher. Was 20 bucks enough to keep them from selling well?