Cute New Vista put out to the Curb!
 

Was set outside after protracted Estate sale on 86th St (Wauwatosa)

This set is a survivor:
*No basement storage apparent
*No rain outdoors because of drought
*Survived Wednesday's trash pick-up (new recycling law)
*Dodged omnipresent Copper Hunters
*Orig PixTube & Flyback operational

Did not initially produce picture due to bad filament link on PC shutting down Vid O/P
(may explain why it didn't sell)
Kinescope is 21FJP22A HiLite with build date of 66-39
Now Removing CRT for faceplate removal/reattach

Nice little set! Glad you were able to save it.

No doubt about it, that set was waiting just for you! Great save!

That baby is super-clean looking. Is it a CTC16 or 20? Seems like a lot of nice sets have been saved in the past couple of weeks... and many still working! Nice to see we've managed to save 'em!

Cool TV!!!

As Sandy would say... me likey!!!:thmbsp:

i like the curb's in your area thats a great looking set. has it always been like this over the yrs with the amount of tv sets poping up on craiglist at auctions or on curbs and ebay .or has it started steadly increasing .because i started about 6 months ago collecting again after many years , thats how i found this website i ran into another member looking for roundies.

It makes me shudder to think how close that set came to being scrapped or wrecked for the copper etc. I think you were destined to save it :yes: Looks real nice too.

Nice CTC-16X (unless it is a '20). The "Contemporary" (as of ~1965-66) cabinet looks like it is in very good condition.

Now I want to watch some of my Rockford Files DVDs on a roundie TV. :)

Great save and complete! My bets are telling me it's a '20. Newer style channel selector knob, shorter compact chassis and the flyback is mounted 90 degrees different than a '16 so the cage can be narrow/smaller.

Chassis is a CTC20; cabinet is lightweight rib reinforced steel w/ printed
woodgrain finish & 1966 date stamp inside.
Weak Spindly legs not suitable for heavy chassis+tube, but amazingly
survived all that careless moving around & moving out to street!
So this was RCA's budget entry level for color in late 1966 using up stocks
of 21" tubes?

Remnant of Estate price sticker on top front (orig price unknown)
Service Co stickers on back cover + evidence of numerous repairs (attached Electro
and printed circuit work) indicate this was kept running until Cararact made
for absurd Porthole viewing? of Rockford Files:D

Congratulations!!!

Wisconsin seems to be an old TV lover's heaven of sorts. And you're just north of where the REALLY best ones were made, no less.

PS Nice CRT tester. I built one of those in 1978. After encountering one in the Vocational-Tech shop that fall, I asked "Santa" for the kit.
Then I had to make my own adapters for Roundies, GE sortacolor and the both 1950's (70 and 90 degree) BW kines.

Glad you could rescue it from the heap.

I am curious to know how good is the DC restoration of this set? My restored CTC-16X is quite poor at it, but if I remember right my CTC-16 is pretty good.

Man, I'm just a few minutes west on I-94 and even going to garage/estate sales all I've ever found in the wild TV wise was gutted shells to complete the gutting on (did get a complete '52 Philco split chassis at a thrift once), and you find that one at the curb! Some one must have been hit by the lucky stick......

I found a pair of '52 split chassis 16" Philco sets not 5 blocks from my apartment when I first moved here, one was lunched but the other was my first resto.