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Old 10-25-2023, 03:49 PM
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Looks like a CTC38 or 39 chassis. The front door tilts down for other
controls.
Look on e-bay for RCA brochure, they do come up often.
CTC 38 & 39 would have spanned apx 1968 til the end of tubes in consoles.
Zeniths evolved slowly & RCA took one leap so no real hybrid consoles..

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Old 10-25-2023, 05:23 PM
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Looks like a CTC38 or 39 chassis.
From what I've been able to find out so far, that's my guess too, but there are a bunch of different TV models that used those chassis, and doing images searches for RCA CTC-38 and RCA CTC-39 never turn up the exact model that we had.

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The front door tilts down for other
controls.
Yes, it was very similar to this 1970 Lundberg with a solid-state CTC-40 chassis, including the speaker area that pivots outward to reveal additional controls and the plain, compact wooden cabinet...

https://youtu.be/GLSkvEyBh7w

... except it didn't have a swivel base (though its legs had about the same styling) and it didn't have the separate power switch lever/bar above the VHF dial.

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Look on e-bay for RCA brochure, they do come up often.
CTC 38 & 39 would have spanned apx 1968 til the end of tubes in consoles.
Zeniths evolved slowly & RCA took one leap so no real hybrid consoles..
I'd rather not buy an RCA catalog without first knowing that our old TV is definitely in it. I'm not even sure if they always listed every single model of TV they made in their catalogs, including all the ones that were identical aside from the wooden cabinet design.
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Old 10-25-2023, 06:28 PM
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Often sellers scan every page of a listing. IIRC OEM RCA manuals
show pix of all the models.
The big on/off switches came in several flavors. One was push - down
on & push down off. The other was a big rocker SW. I think they
started with the CTC40 & 19" plastic cabs & went to the mid '70's.
I dont remember how the remotes worked.

Service tip ! Those switches would stick half way. Stuck on or stuck off.
Seen that in a few other brands with big gang switches ( Admiral & Maggy).
Cure was to "snap" the switch or open it up & pop it back in place.

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