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Thanks Steve & Tim. You guys were dead-on. We removed the glass and both that glass and the front of the picture tube were so smoked up and clouded that you could barely see through them. I guess the original owners of the set were Mr. & Mrs. Nick O. Teen. After all, didn't EVERYONE smoke in the 50's? Anyway, it now looks like we put in a new picture tube. The brightenss is up and the color looks vivid (it was kind of pastel before the cleaning). Thanks again!
I do have another question (I'm sure many more will pop up). Although the set works very good, I always like to have service info available. A couple of weeks ago I got on the Sams Photofax site and put in the model number from the back cover (21CT7857) and Sam's set # 353-11 came up. I almost ordered it there and then. But in the meanwhile, I took the back off to see if the picture tube frame came off from the inside (for the glasss cleaning project). While looking around, I saw someone had written in pencil "Sams 358-9" on the high voltage box. I put this number into the Sam's web site and came up with the model # 21CD7859, which was a Deluxe set.
Stenciled on the chassis are the following: CTC5D, RVAL4, 2746506. The serial number stamped into the chassis is: A4457632. This is the exact same number that is on a tag that is stapled to the inside of the cabinet. That tag appears factory.
I guess the question is: Is this a Super or Deluxe chassis? I know of some service men who, years ago, would have, let's say, a set on-hand with a burned-out picture tube and they'd get in a set with a bad chassis, and would swap things around to make a set work again. I don't know...hope someone out there will. Perhaps none of this means anything. But then, what about the "Sams 358-9" written inside, and the stenciled CTC5D? Thanks once again in advance.
John
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