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Old 02-07-2010, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by radiotvnut View Post
Yes, they held up fairly well. Can't say that for the newer RCA's. The flybacks started going downhill with the CTC197 and really got bad with the Chinese built M134, ATC series, and other chassis sets made over the last few years. Also, I've seen some newer RCA's with weak/shorted/arcing CRT's.
For some reason, I had it in my head that those RCA/GE chassis were made in France... The CTC-175/177 was a very easy set to work on, and as others said; virtually trouble-free outside of the tuner shield can being used as an inline ground connector for the whole board .

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