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got to thinking about some house-call memories and thought I'd share a few bad ones that I still remember to this day. 1 was a housecall job to a really old ladies house. She still had an ancient RCA B&W. If memory serves it was a late 40's model. I remember that it sat on it's factory stand that had the longest legs. Anyway.. it had a sync problem, so my Uncle changed the tube and while it was running the picture tube burned out. It was weak and on a brightner and it just "died" The picture tube tester confirmed it. He ended up telling the lady that parts weren't available anymore. He didn't want to put a new picture tube in something that old. Another call was on a Zenith roundie. It had no color, and just needed a few tubes. Set worked with a great picture when the tubes were replaced, BUT the flyback burned up a few days later. Man were those people pissed. They were sure we had caused it. Any of you guys that used to service sets "back in the day" surely remember those dreaded calls where you would service a set and the damn things would break with a "new" unrelated problem and the customer would expect you to fix it for free. That was the downside on working on some of these old sets that saw heavy daily use.
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