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Old 05-20-2003, 02:51 PM
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Re: gotta love those rca's

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Originally posted by Doug E.
Even so, the channel selector & fine tuning get pretty warm to the touch and the speaker cones sometimes warp because they're right in the path of the rising heat.
You're not kidding! That thing gets hot as hell!

Mine cracked off around 1990 or so, and I ended up replacing just the chrome part of the knob with a damn near identical piece out of my knob drawer.
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