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Originally Posted by zeno
PCB's save money & almost everyone used them. Zenith
hand wired sets then slowly evolved in the '70's to all PCB
due to cost & tech advances.
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Those cone shaped terminal strips and tube socket terminals that poked above the chassis were wave soldered. The workers stuffed resistor and cap leads into the cones before the wave soldering, (a little like circuit boards) and then they added IF transformers and such above chassis parts later. "Hand crafted"...