1978 Sylvania console problems

[holmesuser01]

I made a fair amount of money on these Sylvanias. I did service for a rent-to-own business that had around 100 of them, and about 100 19" version sets.

NEVER had a bad CRT in any of them. Fine sets, all around.

Kept a stock of knobs for them. Rental customers were good at returning TV's with no knobs.

Those sockets under the IC's and transistors were not terribly dependable. When I found bad sockets, I'd remove the socket and hard-solder the IC/transistor in place on the chassis.

Try cleaning the pins on the board connectors, and look for cracks around the connectors on the modules.