My new CTC-28!
 

This is one of the cleanest, most pristine tube televisions that I've seen. It was bought September 15th of last year by a friend and fellow collector, and I have been after it since I first saw it seven months ago. The cabinet is flawless. Whoever owned this TV took extraordinarily good care of it. It's 100% original save for a couple of tubes. I'm going to do a cataract surgery on the 25XP22 as soon as possible, but it's supposed to rain every day this week, so I may be doing it in the house.

i traded around and got this same set back in the late 70s.luckily,the crt was replaced with a sylvania jug.beautiful set i intended to keep after the repair but i was offered an insane price so off it went.nice set,dave.surel;y a keeper

I did a cataract surgery on the tube this morning before the rain started, and now it looks 100% showroom perfect.

I have a CTC28 too, it was my parents' set, the "Tonsberg". The CRT is weak but I have a new Channel Master CRT for it. That too has a cataract issue too. Still in queue.

The only thing thing I have to do on this set is replace the convergence rectifier. Convergence is atrocious at the moment. Amazing colors though.

... and find a button for the channel selector if i have some good eyes because i did not see the button. ;) You have a nice model

In those pictures, I did not have the chassis installed.

That's why, probably, i dd not see the button..

Can I borrow your time machine? :D

Sure thing!

Sweet! Now I don't have to take a microwave full of 'iffy pop' to a supernova. :D

Indeed so. Most indeededly.

Nice set Dave. The last of the finest chassis series, gone after the two-board CTC38 appeared.

As a TV repair novice when those sweet-looking RCA's were 10 years old, I was consulted by a few owners of these beauties as a "second opinion". I always left humbled as flybacks cost almost what rebuilt CRT's did.

After the first few, I could smell roasting fly or see the 6JE6 red-plating like a freakin' rocket with -50v drive on pin 3 - cathode current 400 ma plus, you know the rest. Why change a fly until you know the CRT is any good.

Dave, is that the original jug? It looks from the label that was made the sixth month of 1969. Is that about right for the date of the set? Maybe that was a rebuilt CRT. Very nice set. Sure would like posted pictures of that when its all repaired.

Yes, this set was 100% original before I started monkeying with it after it BROKE. I can't believe I forgot to post here that this set broke. It was way back in April, the cabinet now has a junky CTC-40 chassis and mask, and a rebuilt picture tube. I should have left it alone.

The Chassis broke? Unrepairable?

Something on the chassis shorted and I have been unable to take it in for repair.

Then DIY! Power supply shorts are not hard to fix. I recently walked another member through it on a CTC-16.

The best way to learn is to track down any mistakes you made and fix them...The only way to not make the same mistake twice is to know what you did the first time.

You clearly have not seen my deplorable working conditions. In depth electronics repair is impossible, fix one thing, break three more things. I have no workshop and no money for parts.

So you have a place to work in.:D

I fixed my first roundy with 6 sqft of floor space sitting on the floor with the chassis.... back then I had squeezed a collection that filled a good sized room in a house into a room in an apartment half the size... there was no wall space not covered by electronics, and most of the time only a goat path between the bed and door.... home is where you hang your hat, and a work bench is anyplace you can set a chassis, DMM, and soldering iron...
No parts?.....I once recapped a RCA 630 chassis with only series/parallel combinations of only .05 and .01uF caps because all I had was 2 big bags of them and no money.... when the going gets tough it is time for enginuety.

That's not that bad, I yanked the chassis out of my CTC-21 and recapped the power supply on my kitchen floor. The work bench is covered in crap and the other table is covered in dead DILA projector and a Marantz 2230 getting a power amp recap. It was also an emergency as my projector died, the Motorola was having intermittent tuner/horizontal/vertical issues and I wanted to watch some damn TV.

There is a prolific YouTube TV repair guy who does most of the work on the ground in his (or someone's?) driveway. Your working conditions are vastly better!

I've done that too (minus youtube). Over a decade ago mom was worried about solder fumes poisoning me and I was made to do that work outside in the burning Florida sun with mosquitos dogging me...If your wearing shorts never wave a soldering iron around to chase off hovering mosquitos molten lead can drip on some rather tender areas. :D

When I was a kid I had so many burns on my hands and legs from errant solder. Luckily most of the time it cooled enough on its trip through the air that it didn't do grave damage.

That happens to me all the time, one just gets used to it. The same goes for accidental cuts. If I were to drop the iron though I would get out of its way at emergency warp. I burned my hand with a soldering iron once, it hurt like crazy and left a white blotch.

One time when taking apart can caps, one flew apart suddenly and I got splattered with hot tar. That was considerably worse than getting splattered with molten solder.