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Television and FM tuners? What's next? Will all smartphones have to come with little TV dinner trays and beer bottle openers, too? But seriously folks, what's intriguing about the article (aside from that reference to "the broadband elite") is that it cites a number of precedents for the TV tuner move—first among them a mostly forgotten mandate from the early 1960s.
"There is precedent," the essay notes. "In 1962, Congress passed the All-Channel Receiver Act requiring UHF tuners in all TV sets."

The “All-Channel Receiver Act” was passed by Congress in 1961 and mandated by the Federal Communication Commission. It did not take affect until 1964 and the 1965 model year receivers were first affected. It is true that some manufacturers had UHF tuners in their sets prior to 1965.

My CTC-15E has 1963 date codes but was marketed as a 1964 model. It has a space for the UHF tuner on the front model.

On the subject of UHF tuners, I remember seeing when I was very young, UHF to VHF adapters , for TVs that did not have them built in. :o

Ah yes. The Blonder Tongue one and two-tube (two and three knob) models pictured here were the most popular in our neck of the woods...
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q...rter&FORM=IGRE

Picked up! More to come.. Found out it was a road find sitting with a bunch of BPC tvs in Oakland. The gentleman I met that grabbed it from near certain doom is a fellow AKer. Nice guy. Our kids got along great and met up at a Rock and mineral store.. One of my other passions.

FG 551W = CTC 16XH

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Interesting, the last CTC 16 I had used the XAE chassis I believe. Should be the same? I took a peek in the back. So far it look like RCA red label tubes

Good sign. Next is a Picture tube check. Coming soon.. It's a 21FBP22A RCA Hi Lite. Matching serial number to the chassis and no brightener!!

Well... Results are in..

Red and green bias were 3/4 turned up, blue halfway. Kine bias was on medium.

I'm going to let her cook at 8v overnight. have a feeling shes a bit sleepy (hopefully)

Overnight results. Not horrible but that green gun may be a little on the weak side.
Good thing is, the needles don't drop when using life test..

Had a quick look at the flyback.. there's some wax. Doughnut is not too crusty and no obvious carbon tracks...
Looked for obvious issues and everything seemed like it was ready for the gold..


Disconnected HOT plate cap, used my light bulb variac cord... instant circuit breaker trip. Have filament glow to all tubes. Light was not showing a short. reset breaker, tried once more.. bright light and circuit breaker trip again.
2nd can lytic is quite warm to the touch. Obviously a short in the b+ filtering.

So to recap, it needs a recap.. :D

A very nice find indeed! The back is in excellent condition with a crisp ID label.

Thank you. First order of business is to replace all those 80uf 450v lytics. Kinda feels like 2007 all over again. haha. (I had a helluva time with my first CTC16).

http://videokarma.org/showthread.php...ghlight=ctc-16

Btw, if you look at the 2 sets of pictures on the CRT tester, you'll notice the first time I had the meter set to 6v range, next time was 8v range.. At the 8v I'm still able to achieve 6.3v so I left it there.

With a B+ dead short, the rect diodes took quite a hammering. I would change those just on general principles.

:oOOPs! Double post

Milwaukee, as being a UHF town way early, there were many makes sold here. It seems Mallory and it's clones, Alliance, Silvertone ,CBS Columbia, Sylvania and Arvin, all made by Mallory. Then there was Granco, Blonder Tongue, Regency, Radio Receptor and Dewald (same).
I've seen them all, the Regencys the worst and the Radio Receptors, close to the best.
I got a lot of them as freebees, when people bought new all-channel TV's.:thmbsp:

is wax loss like that something to worry about?