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Old 05-20-2012, 05:30 PM
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ctc-81 was a fold down chassis that was on par with the zenith chromacolor chassis for reliability.the smaller flat chassis was ok but nowhere near as good.thats a great set.a keeper for sure!
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Old 05-21-2012, 10:47 AM
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Don't let that go! That was TOTL in 1977+/-.

My friends' parents traded a GE KC color for a GA725 that had a CTC81 chassis... but the tuner was a one-knob varactor type that never seemed to give UHF trouble like the 1976-78 Zenith ones did.
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Old 05-28-2012, 04:50 PM
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OK, enough guessing. If you are sure of the model and chassis number, I will dig out my old RCA Service Discs and see what they say about it. Look for a follow up post by tomorrow.
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Old 05-28-2012, 09:06 PM
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In the RCA parts and service bulletin index known as PartsFinder II, the model number of GA8365 does not come up at all. The CTC81 chassis does come up. Under CTC81AA therte is a model GA836 listed. The Service Information release date shows 01/31/1976. This date usually is very close to the product release date. I am a semi-retired professional electronics technician, and where I used to work, we were an ASC for Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA & GE). I saw fit to keep PartsFinder on my computer.
Hope this helps you.
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Old 06-05-2012, 01:18 PM
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I think that it's a 1977-1979. The tabletop set in my avatar is a 1974 XL-100, but it has knobs. I can't think of an XL-100 before 1977 that had push-button tuning. I just remember that the Colortrak was favorable to the XL-100 by the 1980's.
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