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Originally Posted by blue_lateral
Theres probably no color because someone still needs to solder all those @##$#@#@@ rivets. 
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I remember those as well as the 19" and 25" EC and EM chassis series that had them on modules.Amazingly other than the rivets they had very few actual component failures.I have a tv almost exactly like that one except mine has woodgrain in the knob area and the woodgrain goes left to right instead of front to back like the one in the picture.AB-F chassis manufactured 1983.The funny thing is someone gave it to me with a intermittent problem that cured itself.Would play for a while and then picture would start jumping and vertical deflection would go and it would blank out the picture.Did that for about a week and I didn't work on it as I was working on other sets.Then 1 night it played all evening and didn't do it.It's still playing fine after 2 years sitting on a shelf near my computer and gets played every night.The color is great and it gets better reception with its built in rabbit ears on the local UHF stations than my Zenith Advanced System 3 will on any antenna I've tried on it.This tv gets WMDT 47 better than the big tv will WBOC channel 16 .47 is weaker and harder to get where I live.It gets channel 16 clear as a bell.But it seems like a lot of the old mechanical tuner tvs outperform electronic tuners on weak signals(indoor antennas) especially on UHF.