Vertical problems used to be reasonably easy to diagnose and solve. As a technician, you know that this overstates the case somewhat because a certain percentage of those problems caused you to lose both the hair on your head and your patience. For the most part, however, they have been among the easiest problems with which you and I have dealt. You put a TV on your bench and turn it on. All of a sudden, a horizontal line appears across the face of the picture tube, and you know you are dealing with a failure in the vertical deflection circuit. Simple, isn't it? And most of the time, you had the set fixed and on its way back home in relatively short order.
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