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Old 01-02-2008, 04:42 PM
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Keep or Junk?

Hi you all.

My grandma's mid 70s Philco color set died yesterday, it's already on my bench and i'm trying to fix it but it's really beyond repair, the tripler shorted and took out the flyback, and i don't know where to get a spare one, the line output thyristors got toasted too...

it already had a serious meltdown back in 2003 when a wirewound pot arced and caught fire, taking out quite a few assorted semiconductors in the process, but i managed to fix it back then...

it's also a quite high hour set which lived a hard life, the wood cabinet has quite an assortment of scratches, bumps and stains, the power button is quite worn along with the woodgrain finish around it, and the last times i saw it working, the CRT was starting to go.

Now, i just don't need yet another POS hopeless set in my already cluttered barn... but i think i may regret it if i throw it out... this is the set i was watching as a kid, i remember spending countless evenings with my grandparents watching Wile Coyote, Bugs Bunny and Fury on it...

Would you keep it?
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