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Old 04-10-2015, 12:01 PM
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I am amazed your TV's CRT is still as strong as your tester says it is. I saw the date code on the tube, January 1976, so that CRT is probably a replacement. However, I would not expect a 39-year-old CRT to test good on all three guns, unless the TV was used very, very little or else it has been rejuvenated once.

BTW, particleboard cabinets were replacing real wood ones by the mid-'70s, although the trend may have started some time earlier. The stand (actually a modified utility cart) my home entertainment system is on is made of particleboard with some sort of fake woodgrain covering. That doesn't surprise me, as I bought the stand in the mid-'80s; by then just about everything was being constructed of this cheap material, a trend that continues to this day. My desk is made of the same stuff, and it is showing its age (I got it in the early 1990s).
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