'84 RCA 13" color TV

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Originally Posted by Beachboy

I also had two of these RCA 13" TV's of 1984 vintage, one was the conventionally tuned model shown in the video, the other was the more upscale model with a single knob electronic tuner. Both delivered a great picture, but both suffered from the same design flaw where the audio would eventually get very weak. I had one repaired; I believe it was some type of discriminator coil which was the culprit. It cost me $75 to fix the one, when the second TV displayed the same weak audio symptoms, I donated it to charity.

I worked on a few of those sets with weak audio. All it took was a touch-up of one of the audio coils. I don't know why they drifted off so bad.
I have to look for my square alignment tool again.