[Coco] The silent night

[Neil Morrison]

My 28" RCA is from the time when they saved a buck by putting rivets
though the board instead of PTH. Great, if the bastards knew how to
solder steel to copper. RCA QC sucks big time.

Still, it's only the tuner. I have two video in channels so I watch
via a VCR.

Talking of dumps, I still keep an eye out for that classic TV set
that had the gimbal mounted tube in the metal shield that stood on
top of a narrow tower containing the works. Don't know the model, but
you often see them used as decorations on shows.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

> 'Nother story.  When I first moved to WV, and the marriage fell
apart
> shortly after, one of my first buys as a new bachelor was a 13"
> monkey ward tv.  I've had to solder the legs of the vertical output
> transistor where thermal cycleing broke the original joint, that
was
> maybe 12 years ago now.  The remote is pretty well trashed so
> changing channels is a chore, and none of the so-called universal
> remotes will even tickle it.   Different frequency or something.
But
> the tv is as bright and sharp as the day I wrote wards a check for
> $180 for it back in 1985.
>
> Too bad we can't buy stuff like that today.  We've bought, and used
> up, 2, 25" magnavox's in the meantime.