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Old 08-19-2020, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnCT View Post
We had one when I was a kid. We had two color TVs when many people had none, but being in the business has at least one advantage.

Ours was a very good performer, better than it's schematic would indicate. It was not trouble free and I recall as it got older it had a lot of crystallized solder on the tube sockets that needed painstaking attention.

John
I spent alot of time soldering these RCAs when they got to be 14+ years old. They were truly worth the effort. There were other mostly tube 15-inch color portables from Sylvania and Admiral that seemed OK but I saw few of them.

I never bought myself a TV either, just CRTs and other major investments where warranted
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