1984 RCA XL100 from an estate sale
 

I saw an estate sale in my area today with some promising pictures, so I decided to check it out. Walking up, I spotted an old console TV on the driveway. Then I started running. I asked the guy running the sale what he wanted for it, and he said "PLEASE take that thing! Load it in your truck!" So I had to ask my grandfather to help me load it in his truck. After that we had an awsome lunch at Milo's. The TV works, but it has a few issues. It has really bad blooming, among other things.

Another. It won't let me upload more than one picture at a time for some reason.

My parents had that same set. I helped pick it out from a place called "Phil and Jim's"(out of business). Lots of press-board. Don't spill water on the top or it will bubble up.. Had it for 20 years and never broke down, not even a bad CRT
Phil and Jim's commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaaROqaVEl0

Here's a pic of my 1984 RCA XL100. Still works perfect. I wouldnt say I ran for this, but I didn't waste much time taking the van down a block from my house to load it up from next to a dumpster it was sitting by. I'd rather have a colortrak 2000, plus, or dimensia but now way I was going to turn down any 84 set.

When I picked it up from the estate sale, water had condensed all over it and now the top is quite bubbly. It's got these thin horizontal lines in the picture now. It's not blooming as bad now, though.

Digital or mechanical tuner? Ours was digital with remote. Red numbers

Digital. It shows the channel number in the lower right of the screen. I looked everywhere, but I couldn't find a CTC number on this set! The picture tube is a 25VGDP22.

In pix #1 I think I see jail bars. In the last pix it
has retrace lines. IIRC the big filter can at the rear
is two section. One is the power supply filter, the other
is for the 200V. The 200V part is probably bad. Its
typically from 5mfd -22mfd. If its OK you can
turn down the G-2 on the CRT socket to get rid of
the retrace.

73 Zeno:smoke:

Well, I have some good news. I talked to my friend in Atlanta, and he instructed me to lower the screen adjustment on the back. That solved the retrace lines problem. I put in a new 33 Mfd capacitor thinking that would fix the jailbars, but it had no effect.

After finishing the long, laborious task of cleaning my room, I was finally able to install the TV.

Using the word "install" made it sound as if you had put it in the wall or something. Looks good though. :thmbsp:

Some sets used 2 caps in series, Fisher comes to mind.
If not that 'lytics in the separate MSC board gave trouble, it may be
coming in on the tuning voltage or other line. Usually it is
the 200V. A very common problem across all brands.
BTW CTC### usually on a big tag on the chassis or FBT.

73 Zeno:smoke:

For some reason, the remote-control supplied by Charter cable does not work with this TV. I programmed every code for RCA into the remote, and none of them worked.

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Yes, that set does look good in your room. The room must be fair-sized if you are able to fit a console TV and a floor-standing Zenith antique radio in there, but you did it. That is all that counts. :thmbsp: My apartment is too small to accomodate even one console TV, but I do have a collection of small table radios, almost all Zeniths from the 1950s and '60s. What can I say, I like Zenith. :yes: