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My vote for the worst chassis to work on (so far)
Ron Ramirez
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01-03-2008, 06:39 PM
My vote is for the 41-250 chassis and its variations (41-255/280/285/287/290). Hardest Philco (IMHO) to work on; not only do you have the rubber-covered wiring headaches, but the closely spaced three section band switch with all of those rubber-coated wires going to the various sections of that switch virtually guarantees one must disassemble the switch to get to all of the wires.

I used to try and pull the rubber coating off the wires as they went into the switch assembly...until I broke a wafer in the switch assembly. Thereafter, I found it safer (for me, anyway) to disassemble the switch.

It takes a LOT of hours to redo one of these. Too many, I think.
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