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Originally Posted by wa2ise
,your favorite maker> "The quality runs out when the nameplate falls off!"
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More like the quality runs out when the cabinet rots and the chassis falls out!
I have three 62-64 metal cabinet portables that work and are stock (aside from some tubes) one of them I got as a half dismantled parts set with two disconnected tuners! I also have a 51-52 porthole that displays a good picture and is bone stock (aside from tubes, and 3-5 paper caps that were replaced by brown drops sometime in it's distant past.
These sets hate to quit and almost need to be killed in order to have an excuse to do so. And if you find Zenith's TV add for their first portable transistor monochrome set you will realize that not only were Quaker puffed rice/wheat "the ones shot from guns", but Zenith's were the ones built to be dropped from planes while running and keep on trucking even after hitting earth!