A little Surprising, CT100 Fans
 

Anyone interested? No Affiliation, just kinda surprised by it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140602442172...fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

Yours was first!

I sent a message as soon as I saw this, perhaps I can convince him to sell me the whole set instead of parting it out? Wouldn't that be a shame!

I notice that he says it was sitting in a store window for 45 years and the cabinet is bare, from what I presume was the sun beating on it. Wouldn't this damage the phosphor coating on the CRT too?

I am still a novice in this area, but I just wonder...

"Will ship insured UPS"

:yikes:


Please God, NO! Better insure it for $5,000, I promise he'll collect on that one. Those freaks destroyed a 21" tube Scotty sent me, you can see the results in my signature. :thumbsdn:

It's too bad he won't keep this whole set together.

Interesting double reflection in the picture of the CRT face.

Don't be too sure, he just replied to my message.

Looks like I might own a CT-100! :banana: :banana: :banana:

I hope you get the whole set Nick. I believe that there is someone who had repro vertical convergence transformers for the CT-100 made and is selling them on the ETF classifieds.

You NEED a CT-100 it is all that is keeping you from having every color RCA chassis from prototype to CTC 4.

Maybe after that you can get the ones between CTC 4 and 9 and start your own RCA color museum.:scratch2::naughty:

Tom C.

That is great news, congratulations. :thmbsp:

It's official, I am the new owner!

Bonus info:

He has already completely recapped the chassis and done an alignment on it, so my road ahead will be short.

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...9&d=1315194607

Even the original peaking coils are still good, it must not have played for very long at all. Work stopped when the vertical convergence transformer went out, so I will be calling John Folsom to see if he has any of his new ones still available. Cabinet is sun baked, but otherwise in good condition. Has all the knobs. Of course, CRT is good. :thmbsp:

Wowzers! And even a very neatly done recap. I think it was another of your lucky days. :yes:

I seem to be having a lot of those, huh? Being in the right place at the right time has a lot to do with it, just yesterday I was camping in Springfield. Bad storm came, blew the tent down!

Camping can be a pretty dangerous activity. We had a similar experience this spring, only we saw this one coming. We literally threw 3 tents in the back of my van and took off running.

You are the luckiest guy in the world! I'd be heading to the store and buying lottery tickets.

You're one of us now. http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs31/f/20...stopia3000.gif Do you know if this one is already in the database?

Nick, way to go! Give me a shout if you need a newly made convergence transformer for the CT100 chassis.

As I have mentioned in the past, eight years ago in early 2003 some 25 entries in the Living CT-100 List were lost in a computer HD crash. Since then a handfull have been recovered from various means, but although the Merrill-in-a-window description sounds familiar, I have not been able to match this set to an entry in the list.

So Nick, pls pass along the chassis serial number when it becomes available to you.

Thanks,
Pete

:jawdrop:Wow! Congratulations Nick! You really are one lucky bastard! :D
I can't wait to see it in person.

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I will be needing one, according to Jeff. I will wait till I have the chassis in my possession to contact you though, that way I know this is not a dream. :D

You going to go pick this one up in person?

Just received a few more pictures from Jeff, here they are.

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...6&d=1315244353


http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...7&d=1315244353

Too far away, someone from U-Ship will get it for me.

Boy he sure has that chassis cleaned up nice. And the cabinet don't look too bad either. Least you won't need to buy gallons of stripper.

Wow! Not too shabby!!! :banana::thmbsp::banana::thmbsp:

Congratulations!

jr

I'm so glad to see another CT-100 saved.

Bruce

cant wait to see this one up and running.great score and good to know artifacts of our youth are being preserved for the future.please post as many pics as you can when putting it together

Nick, just curious... who was the seller? I think I can provide you with the missing tuner cover if you need it.

My post was first but I think you were the lucky one here! Congratulations! I knew I was in no position to have bought it but I'm glad its saved and in good hands.

You have PM, not sure if he wants his full name public.

You got a great looking set there. I hope it comes to life and makes great pictures.
Regards,
Cliff

Congrats! It's hard to believe this was to be parted out. Thank goodness you saved it. And to think I was impressed when the Sear's tower opened.

At this point, the only one I haven't owned is a CTC-5. I had and sold a nice CTC-9, that was my first roundie. As you know I'm working on veneering the CTC-7, I have no desire to own anything after CTC-10. If I could one day own a Wingate, that would be about the only thing I'd consider collecting. The first 3 is enough for me, though if a Model 5 showed up...

Nick my friend, when it comes to RCA color sets you are a guy that wants the best and gets the best. I have no doubt that you will be celebrating the acquisition of Model 5andor a Winate soon. I can't help but envy your legendary RCA collection, ya lucky dawg.

Congratulations for your latest acquisition, Nick, and welcome to the CT-100 club. I see that this set's channel-selector knob appears to be light-colored, as is mine, though I have seen others that are darker.

Regarding the seller, he is apparently a ham-radio operator as am I; most hams I have ever met are good people do deal with.

Wow, congratulations. Quite a find. You really do have TV mojo, as the hippies used to say. So when are you opening your museum? ;)

(That CTC-9 is still doing great, by the way; the Kovacs color special DVD was especially sweet.)

Pete,

If memory serves, and that's saying a lot.
I recall an AK post many years ago about a sun baked CT-100 that stood in a store window in Kansas. Looked very much like Nick's faded cabinet.

-Steve D.

Set is ready for pickup! I'm in the process of booking through U-Ship at the moment. :banana:

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...1&d=1315698610

Sweet! It will be cool to see that CT-100 running next to a working prototype, 21-CT-55 and CTC-4 someday....you are going to need to get a bigger treasure display wall, and maybe some extension cords to run all of them at once without tripping the breaker, and some more antenna matching transformers, coaxal cable, cable splitters, etc.... You know what, that collection is too much trouble, and as SandyG likes to joke you should box them up and send them to me. LOL.

Glad you saved it.

Tom C.

Shipping is booked through U-Ship now, just waiting for confirmation of the arrival!

Set will be here early tomorrow morning!