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Originally Posted by jstout66
... I'm sure you're aware I hated the CTC-38. RCA "cheaped out" on that one.That and the CTC-39 were the last tube chassis they used in a console. When we got a call on one it was almost always a bad flyback and a boat load of bad 6GH8's. The sets were mediocre when new, and once they got some age on them it got worse....
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My grandma got a CTC39 in around 1975 to replace a B&W set. She probably got a good deal on it, clearance sale or such. My father (grandma was his mother in law, and they had the standard issue relationship...) and I would occasionally have to service it every so often in the early 80's. Don't remember anything big being wrong with it. Then grandma checked out in 1984 and we had it in our basement for a while. I do remember that the VHF tuner quit working, but oddly enough it still could get stations in UHF. Probably a dead local VHF oscillator. It got tossed in the early 90's.