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Originally Posted by Bobby Brady
I imagine this would apply to other years. I read through an issue of LIFE from '63 and saw an advertisement for a '64 GE roundie inwhich it has a hang-tag stating that the set has a lifetime cicuitboard warranty. The small print stated that GE would replace any defective circuitboard for the life of the set.
Does anybody know if GE would honor this? Could they not be legally forced to do so? Would there be all the manufactoring specs to reproduce one from raw materials?
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The warranty likely applies to the board itself and not the parts on it.
It also covers "defective" as opposed to "damaged". A board that is carbonized from overheated components could be reasonably argued to be damaged as opposed to defective.
Just take it to your local factory-authorized GE TV repair shop, they'll get right on it.
I *have* had Rat Shack replace a "lifetime warranty" tube. They gave me a NOS RCA replacement, which came with no warranty but works fine. I think they get them from AES. The guy behind the counter had never seen a tube before, I got a really funny look. He made a phone call and was told to send it in to HQ. Took a couple of weeks. This was a couple of months ago, a 6L6GC.