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Teknika was 100% Japanese, and had some high quality stuff - metal cabinets (like the Sanyo 91CXX series) and SAW filters, way before others were using them. We had a dealer that got the warranty work for Teknika - except for the odd power issue (thanks to lightning) and a couple of busted backs, he would've starved on the Teknika warranty work.
The US Navy bought mod'ed Teknikas - we had one on my shop aboard the Forrestal (86-89) that was a great set - I replaced a couple of vertical caps in 89, and noticed it had an isolation transformer and an externally replaceable SloBlo fuse added, very professionally. The rest of the set reminded me of Toshiba and Hitachi sets, with metal everywhere, and heavy 18 gauge wire going to the tuner cluster. Our set ran 24 hours a day, and except for a bit of vertical shrinkage due to the two bad caps, we never had a problem. We adjusted the volume so much, we wore the chrome plating off of the on/off volume knob.
I've seen several other Teknikas, but none with remote control, so they may have been a low-end set to start with. The CRTs are almost always a Hitachi tube.
Cheers,
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Brian
USN RET 22YRS (Avionics/Cal)
CET-Consumer Repair and Avionics ('88)
"Capacitor Cosmetologist since '79"
When fuses go to work, they quit!
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