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Originally Posted by compucat
The control door is open. I wonder if the latch is broken or it was deliberately opened for frequent hold adjustment.
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Very perceptive! I remember seeing my grandfather fiddling with those controls at almost every viewing when I was a kid. I thought it was normal for ALL TVs to need adjustments when they were first turned on! So it probably was a bad cap issue, solved when gramps bought another RCA in 1973. He never went for what he considered "major" repairs. If he couldn't get a problem solved with a cheaply priced tube & frequent minor adjustments, he got rid of the set rather than repair it. I wished they had kept this one
The Zenith looked good in 1993 when Gram died, but there was a lot of plastic on that set.