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I started repairing televisions for a shop in my home town in 1977 when I was still a teen, most already were 7-12 years old when they came in and saw LOTS of use as the people in my area were mostly middle class with only one color set.
This was a good indicator of which ones would last the longest. Of course Zenith held up the best with RCA following, RCA had that common problem with the power resistor heat buildup under the chassis causing the terminal strip and nearby wires becoming brittle then falling off.
Motorolas were decent too, just not too many techs understood them.
GE sets would get real bad with many hours of use, with the previously mentioned pc board problems.
Magnavox had the brittle board problem also, sometimes you would go to put a new tube in and away it would crumble!
As with automobiles, most tv manufacturers had their best and worst models,
I have repaired a lot of televisions in my time and can say that I really didn't mind working on any of them because that is what I was supposed to do...repair them, not spend time bitching about their inherent weaknesses.
I enjoyed going to work every day and dealing with the customers, handling calls and most of all getting those sets working again!
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