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I had several televisions where the reception was off a bit, but if you turned the dial a very small amount, like 1mm or so, it would look better. So we would wedge matchbooks or cardboard in the dial to hold it there. Happened across several different models.

Also ones where the flyback transformer was dying, which would collapse the picture. But banging the TV would bring it back to life for 10-30 minutes. So we had a pile of shoes near the couch to throw at the TV as needed.

>>tyingq+(OP)
Most analog TVs I've used had a fine tuning dial surrounding the channel knob and sometimes you had to use that.

>>tenebr+m3
I don't know about "most", depends on the timeframe. Many had them, many did not.

>>tenebr+m3
That's so you can tune into the Cellular AMPS networks on channels 69 through 83.