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The set wasn't bad at all, and in fact was carried over for several years after being a direct spinoff from the earlier roundies. I don't ever remember a bad Motorola chassis.
That lousy CRT is solely responsible for the poor reputation of that set. One of the reasons they sold was because they were rectangular, and had thinner cabinets than a roundie. When the CRTs were new, they looked "OK", but OK was about it. For reasons which I never knew, this tube was not rebuildable, and NO ONE supplied it as an all new replacement beyond 1966-67. If you asked the distributor for a 23EGP22, you got a 25AP22 and a mounting kit. Period.
Last edited by TV Engineer; 04-09-2006 at 08:44 AM.
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