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Interesting list.....had to dig a bit to find it.

Seems the "1240" just refers to a "Clinton" electronics. This set is obviously from somewhere around 1986 or thereabouts (just a guess). I could find no actual date. I guess after work I'll hafta look again and see if I'm missing an actual part number. If this was one of my little "cheap chinese Coby" sets....I would have three or four complete parts sets to grab a CRT from. I have no parted out of these little 4" sets.

This set was just some cute thing someone gave me, but was QUITE obviously dropped or something. Weird how dropping these tend to bust up the PC boards pretty good, but tend to leave the plastic cabinet pretty much untouched. This is like the fourth time I ran across a little set that LOOKS perfectly fine...but is all busted up inside.

I decided to go through it since it was an odd brand...and a nice tidy little set. It's almost exactly like the little Magnavox Shadow except the tuning thumbwheel is way down in the right corner. I got it to go for nothing but the time it sat under the knife on my workbench...and then I saw this focus problem.

It's no BIG deal really. The set is now perfectly running except this little pulsating between focused and not. I stuck the little pin back in the CRT socket and put the board back. I'm likely getting a buildup of focus HV...and then a small discharge to the broken pin that brings the focus back for like a second. This would be alarming on a BIG set, but is merrely annoying on a little one.