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Originally Posted by zenith2134
Nice! I'll pretty much take any set with an ultrasonic remote. 
Funny that I saw this when I signed in today....I was away for a couple of days and found a May, 1977 Sharp 12" B&W....took it just for laughs. Its on the side of my house awaiting trash collection.
But I have to agree with you, that Sharp products weren't half bad in the mid-late-70s (at least still made in Japan). |
I think I know the 12" Sharp B&W that you have and I'll bet it has a bad flyback. A friend of mine who used to repair Truetone TV's gave me a few 12" and 19" Sharp built Truetone sets and they all had bad flybacks. He said those B&W's ate flybacks like crazy.
By the late '80's, Sharp started going to the dogs big time. They may have been OK if it wasn't for bad soldering and lousy cabinets that became brittle and fell apart. I recently trashed a late '90's Sharp 25" in a trash bag, literally. The cabinet had become brittle and would shatter if you touched it.