[ChuckA]

The CTC-5 is still in PA, although now it resides in my garage.

It is almost in as good a condition as the picture Eric posted at the beginning of this thread. Typical of most auction houses they managed to damage the cabinet transporting it to the auction site. The lower right trim near the speaker grille was chipped off, the front trim has a painted on finish so it looks like I can hide it with some sanding and matching "yellow" paint.

The CRT red gun was completely dead, blue & green checked excellent. After a few hours of testing and burning in with no success I guessed that maybe the cathode weld had seperated, so I tried to reweld the connection with my tester and a trusty screwdriver handle. A couple of jolts and whacks on the neck and the red gun came back to life. I put it through a few heat and cool cycles and it is still working. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Insides look like it hasen't been touched in 40 years, original tubes, lots of dirt and the mandatory nicotine covering everything inside and out.

I did try a quick power up on the Variac, but it did nothing, not even filaments - worse case scenerio is an open power transformer primary. It will have to wait for now to many customer sets in for restoration right now.



Chuck