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man, Captain Moody... that burned up flyback brought back some memories. I've discussed this in earlier posts but when summertime rolled around we were quite busy with the flyback jobs! My Uncle only replaced with Thordarson. It was always an easy repair for him and quite the profit maker. As for problems on sets.... I know my Uncle HATED the CTC-38 chassis. His opinion was that it was the worst crap RCA put out. They always had poor alignment, and toasted boards. And overall, a cheap feel about them. As for other brands, don't know of any specific problems, but know he hated working on Magnavox and Motorola tube sets. Zenith was pretty good, but I remember a set he had sold that was a DOG. It was a 19" 4 tube hybrid. That P.O.S. broke at EVERY oppertunity. It wasn't the same problem either. It was like it had a surprise on every housecall visit. He made a deal with the lady that had it, and he practically gave her a solid state chroma 2, because he felt bad about it AND he didn't want to work on it anymore. The 4 tube went from the back of the van straight to the trash......
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