And yet another unknown CT-100
 

#302 one owner set claims the seller.
Gassy CRT

http://cgi.ebay.com/RCA-CT-100-Origi...item35a8789c27

Interesting. Very interesting. Very unusual. Out of the ordinary. Strange. Not common.

Two CTC2's on the bay at the same time.

50's vintage color sets are not my passion, BUT, I think I will watch this one - hells bells I might even bid on this one - I have relatives who live right near there who could "snatch" the set and hold it for me until I get motivated to go after it.

Just a thought??

Given that Ann Arbor is so close, I might be tempted to bid on it also. I doubt that I'll make the reserve though. If anyone here decides to bid on it let me know and I'll bow out. I don't want to drive the price up for someone who seriously wants it.

John

O.K. The temptation was too much given how close it is to me. I'm one of the bidders. It looks like there is a lot of early interest, but none reaching the reserve yet.

John

GAWD I wish I had the money to get that right now. I want one of these more than just about anything else.....maybe I'll get lucky one day.

Can't necessarily tell much until the final 5 or 6 seconds of the auction, when automated snipe bids kick in.

Phil "not bidding" Nelson

I believe you. I've used countdown.ebay.com to watch bids coming in. I do use an automatic snipe though. It helps keep me from bidding more than I promised myself I would.

John

Why bother? The CRT is bad, and we all know they are unobtanium since the rebuild effort has been scrapped. The chances of finding a usable tube are also next to zilch. I could see it if you had a known good tube waiting in the wings...

It's alot of cash to spend on something you may NEVER get to see work.

just sayin'...

These things are jumping out of the woodwork lately. Who knows, I may stumble on one in one of my boss's barns.

Hi TV Engineer,

Don't give up yet on 15G rebuilding.

Here in France, a 15G ETF donor CRT has been rebuilt, it was a severe leaker and is for now, vacuum tight - No neck "Neon" glow.

RGB + white raster testing results should be seen next weeek, and if sucessful, the CRT will be shipped in time for the ETF Convention 2010.

Just a small message of hope to say that work is still in progress on the 15G worldwide and that someone, somewhere will succeed.

Best Regards

Jhalphen
Paris/France

There must be alot of collectors near Ann Arbor, or else there is something especially attractive about this CTC2.

John

I totally understand that, but, I still want one. I know the right people when it comes to the CRT so it's not totally unobtanium, just VERY expensive. I also want one for the history factor.:yes: I also would like to have one example of every color chassis RCA made up to about CTC 16. Right now I only have a 4, 5 and a 9. A 7 is also on my "must have" list.

Ditto what Jerome said!

Even John Folsom and myself have not thrown in the towel. We have just put things on the back burner, while we to try and work out some of the wrinkles.

We know how to rebuild guns. We have stems that work pretty well. We just need to work on the issues of cost and finding and sealing leaks.

Between the French effort and the USA effort, we WILL be successful in the end. It is just a matter of time before we have the right recipe.

Right now we are keeping our fingers crossed that RACS is successful. Everybody just needs to hang in there. John and I are conficent that it can be done.

Too many of these things coming up lately, it's time to talk to the wife about a second mortgage...:yes:

You never know. Just having one is worth it alone, even with a dead CRT. There may be a working rebuild process that is affordable. Plus, It's a museum piece.

I second that. :P