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It has been my experience that component construction, especially capacitors, improved greatly after around 1960. The "orange drop" type capacitors, etc began to appear.
This is probably one reason that the little Portacolor keeps on going. I also have one, a 1977 model, the works fine after clearing up a carbon trail in one of the adjustent conrols.
(GE was kind of strange when it came to CRT construction-I have seen some of the CRTs, from the Portacolor and some B&W sets with huge cathodes-these tubes seem to last forever. I have seen other B&W crts from them with little tiny cathodes-these are almost always very weak).
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