Found a cute lil' Panasonic today

[mr_fixer]

Thanks for the offer of the micro fishy but it is working already, you better hang on to it for someone who needs to fix theirs. I saw this set at the Goodwill last week but turned it down because i have limited space, but it was half price today and i couldn't resist it. It is a cute little TV with the 10 inch picture tube. I opened it up and cleaned out the insides of dust and cobwebs, and lubed the tuner, and that is all that i had to do to it. This makes my 8th tv set and in the house. It's just so funny that i found a 2006 rca last week that is busted already, yet a 20 plus year old Panasonic, Zenith, Toshiba and others are still working.
Logan

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by mr_fixer

It's just so funny that i found a 2006 rca last week that is busted already, yet a 20 plus year old Panasonic, Zenith, Toshiba and others are still working. Logan

RCA TVs from that era (2006) back to about 1998-99 were notorious for failures around the tuner, which was mounted to the PC board (the infamous "on-board tuner" design that caused RCA no end of problems until the CTC-203 chassis, in which the RF tuner is mounted separately from the rest of the set). My own 19" RCA CTC185, bought new in late '99, has never had one issue with the tuner, save for one time when the antenna/cable RF port snapped off the tuner PCB (the set was only a month or two old at the time, but the warranty did not cover the cost of the repair). However, as far as tuner problems were concerned, this set has had none, probably because the last time it was worked on (to resolder the RF port) the repair technician also resoldered the ground points around the tuner. That was eight years ago; the TV is still working and makes an excellent picture on cable, as well as with my DVD player and VHS VCR. I don't know what happened to the 2006 model you saw, whether it had the same tuner problems (it shouldn't have, unless those sets were still using the on-board tuner design) or just what happened to put it out of commission in such a short time. A friend of mine told me his parents had a 25" RCA/Thomson TV with GuidePlus, etc. that blew a CRT after only two years, so Thomson must have had issues with CRTs in the mid-late-1990s as well--unless that particular instance was an unfortunate fluke.