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Magnavox, Philco and GE sets had some of the shortest-lived CRTs IMO.
RCA (then Thomsen) built them about 3 miles from here in Lancaster. RCA's seemed to last reasonably long enough, except the early 21"s when reds got weak first.
The years I worked in the "business end" were 1979-86. The only replacement CRTs I remember were (starting most desirable) Sylvania, RCA, Maganavox, Channel Master
My long-time living room set was a Mag T995-01 touch -tune ca. 1977. Rescued it as a trade in 1985 with bad CRT (no surprise) bought a Maganvox replacement (Philips?) and it lasted till the set's end in 2005...Hmmm indeed!
testing all the tubes in the W-house tonight (methinks there is a single OEM tube- ???)
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