RCA Roundie Test Jig Resto
 

Finally got one of these things, only took 3 years of searching!
I'm going to restore it, this thread will document the process.

http://videokarma.org/attachment.php...3&d=1421362294

i love this!cant wait for your resto posts

Local, or eBay find?

This should be one of the easiest restos you ever do, Nick. Just clean it up, and provided the paint is good, and none of the few parts that are in it are bad you should be home free.

No CTC-2 IF headaches, no prototype chassis that has no documentation and loose hanging leads, no problem...:thmbsp:

You'd think it to be easy, but honestly it needs a lot of work. The cabinet has bad paint and some rust issues, so blasting and repainting/powdercoating is likely on the table. That and the CRT may be bad, I'm not sure what to make of the test results yet. The emission needle creeps lower and lower like there's leakage between elements or something, and the cutoff adjustment doesn't exactly work like it should either. Might be gassey I'm not sure, only way to know for certain is to put HV on it and see what happens.

Great score Nick!:D Hope you have all extension cables, too, but I know cables can be made. I have a CTC-11 metal cabinet with a so-so FB that will be converted to a jig (no chassis came with it), but will wait for warmer weather here in the northeast to do the work in my garage.
Kevin

Very nice find. I see that the HV meter has the newer-style RCA logo, so it must have been replaced once.

Nothing could be better as a roundie chassis test jig than another real roundie!

Saw that too, I think it was either replaced or installed later if it didn't originally have one.

I have that same jig, but not meter installed, my guess is it was added.

It's a test jig can't be much to restore.

there could be a lot more to these things than you'd think:
-HV monitoring
-convergence/geometry boards
-tuner?

Curious, why would the CRT be weak? Unless they used seconds for test tubes...

Back in the day a jig could of ran many hours a week in a busy shop.

Nice find Nick. Doubt the jig had even an original meter on the front covering up the lettering. Hope you re-paint in the original color and try to duplicate the RCA logo & color test jig decals on the front. Reinstall the meter above the RCA logo. I'll follow the progress w/interest.

-Steve D.

Man, that is just too cool. Looking forward to seeing the restoration progress.

I parted out one of those jigs a few years back; I still have the crt with 'test tube' etched in the glass. It's possible that I still have the meter.