Hi Doug,
The schematic would be great! Normally on something this new i could go without one but in this case...the lytics have been "modified" by someone who did a very poor job. I did check for any short potential and powered it up with a variac. Although none of the lytics got warm, it had a nasty case of the hum bars which was no surprise concidering it was last fired up in the 70's until the flyback went south. I replaced the flyback with a new one i got from Moyers. The good news is that it had a good full sized raster with fantastic color, video, sound and sharpness despite the bad lytics. Only other thing that was messed up was the wafer that attaches to the back of the VHF tuner that switches the UHF tuner on and off. I'll have to get one as the original one is beyond repair. I just bought new shunt regulator, HV rect, horizontal and damper tubes. I guess next will be new 6GH8's
I have most of the caps for this one but need a schematic just to double check that the previous repair guy didnt pull a bad switch with some of the values. One example of the crappy repair was that instead of mounting one lytic the proper way, he ran leads out and taped the lytic to the side of one of the can's
So you can see where i'm comming from. I hope to gets some pics taken soon of this one working and some of my other sets and share with you guys. My collection is mostly made up of electrostatic and roundie b/w sets including a Zenith porthole combo. a 1948 RCA combo and a few motorola's, but i also have four predicta's. I also have a house full of old radios, record players and victrolas.
Steve D.
Thanks for the compliment and I know what you mean about this cabinet style. It was the first one i ever saw like this also with the flip out radio and sort of danish style cabinet. I had a similar one as a kid but was the CTC20 version but it had a cabinet that looked almost like the german consoles as far as its finish and cabinet style. It had the same arrangement as this one with the tv on the right and stereo on the left. It had a sliding door on the top sort of like the maggies instead of a lift up lid. I always wanted another roundie color combo so when this one came up and was in driving distance i snatched it up. I drove almost 300 miles for it but was well worth it when i saw how nice it was. Luckily i got it cheap so the extra expense it took to go get it was well worth it. I hope to stumble across a brochure or ad for this model one of these days to see how much it cost originally and get other imformation on it. I did find several dates stamped inside ranging between January and Febuary 1963.
Thanks again Robert for posting pics of your CTC12 as i havent found very many pics of this particular model. I'm looking forward to your future postings as i have likewise with Doug, Dwight and the rest of the gangs collections here in the tv forums.
Tony