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07-10-2015, 11:17 AM
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More Pensburys are coming out of the woodwork....
Looky what I got yesterday!
 Just an empty cabinet, but if there was ever an empty cabinet worth building a set into, it's this one! Every mark on the cabinet was a spot of dirt. The thing is nearly flawless 
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07-10-2015, 11:24 AM
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Definitely not the same luck with my pensbury cabinet... Has extensive finish damage it flakes off and gets stuck on my palm when I handle it. Nice score.
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07-10-2015, 11:35 AM
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Great find Tim,
Probably my favorite CTC-7 set. I hope you locate a proper chassis & 21CY. Any idea what happened to the original guts? -Steve D.
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07-10-2015, 05:13 PM
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07-10-2015, 05:16 PM
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I will say this.
I learned a lesson. Never EVER ever ever ever ever take the screen mask of a CTC-7 apart, no matter how dirty it is. I thought it would take me ten minutes, it took me over 3 hours to get it back together. Parts popped out everywhere. I swore and yelled until I ran out of words to use and made up my own. Then I wanted to go find a Klingon dictionary and use THOSE. I cursed David Sarnoff, his mother, his grandmother, and some other relations a couple times removed. And then I got mad. Yes, I did get it back together. That job SUCKED.
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07-10-2015, 05:38 PM
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07-12-2015, 09:52 PM
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Very beautiful cabinet! Definitely worth building a set into! Yeah, I remember when I took apart and cleaned my CTC-7 Sanford mask assembly! After getting it back together, I said to myself "well, that ought to be good for the rest of my lifetime!" So far it's the oldest color set I've ever owned or worked on!
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07-13-2015, 07:37 PM
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Those safety glass trims were a bugger that year and in '59. There is probably an insufficient tutorial on how to finagle the ELL-trim and slider-thingys in the CTC7service manual.
I have two BW sets of this era and now I know how to clean the CRT, from the back after a total teardown, thanks for the tip, cap'n
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07-13-2015, 07:55 PM
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If it's like the trim on my 10 it was hell to get off and on without bending anything.
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07-13-2015, 08:03 PM
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too bad you're so far away, I have a CTC7 "Anderson" in a horrible cabinet.
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07-21-2015, 05:55 AM
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So the VERY DAY I get done fitting a BPC into the cabinet, look what I come in to. Yep, unreal! A CTC-7 chassis with knobs!!!
Welp, looks like the BPC is gonna get tossed in the garbage and we begin fitting the REAL guts in . I'm still missing a convergence board and yoke, but I do have a line on a possible picture tube. Till then I may just stick a dud AXP in the hole.Only problem is that this chassis isn't from a Pensbury, and it doesn't have a dial indicator. Can that be fitted to this chassis, or do I need a new tuner?
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