RCA Non-Bonded Safety Glass removal?

[bgadow]

I ran into this same arrangement on a bw RCA console. I don't know why they had to make it so complicated. I'm pretty sure I bent something getting that one apart. RCA sets that are a little older use a different arrangement which I seem to recall is easier to deal with.

[Kevin Kuehn]

What I don't understand is why the RCA field service manual is so vague on the removal process. I'll bet they sold a lot of replacement brass trim over the years.

[Phil Nelson]

So, if I'm following all this . . . the top trim (U channel) piece can be removed without removing anything else, but to remove the bottom one for a swap, I would need to remove everything, including the glass.

Are the top & bottom pieces even interchangeable? This is looking like more fuss than it's worth, especially since my glass doesn't look dirty in the first place.

Phil Nelson

[Kevin Kuehn]

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

So, if I'm following all this . . . the top trim (U channel) piece can be removed without removing anything else, but to remove the bottom one for a swap, I would need to remove everything, including the glass.

Can't say I tried removing the bottom with the glass on, but I think it will be much easier working from the top first. Also, you can't take the bottom retainers off to remove the glass for cleaning.

Originally Posted by Phil Nelson

Are the top & bottom pieces even interchangeable? This is looking like more fuss than it's worth, especially since my glass doesn't look dirty in the first place.

Phil Nelson

They are interchangable.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

What I don't understand is why the RCA field service manual is so vague on the removal process. I'll bet they sold a lot of replacement brass trim over the years.

That's why RCA always tried to sell service contracts with their sets. They used to have those clips inside, all around the CRT. Another PITA, those tuner indicator belts.