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Originally Posted by Phil Nelson
Don't know about TVs, but the "hand wired" pitch was a flop in the radio world. Zenith touted their "hand wired" chassis when they introduced the Royal 7000 TransOceanic radio in the late 1960s. This was ten-year old technology and a huge marketing blunder. Competing radios with printed-circuit technology performed better, cost less, and weighed less. Zenith threw away the market for high-end multiband portables, a market they had single-handedly created in the 1940s and dominated for decades.
Phil
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I personnally found the Rca color sets much easier to repair than the Zenith brand. The only real advantage hand wiring had over pc boards were the fact that cold solder joints weren't an issue, but the pc boards made component identification much easier. As for quality both Rca and Zenith ran head to head for many years and now neither exist.