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Old 08-03-2010, 10:20 AM
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This set has UHF, so it could be '64, although since a lot of these TVs probably were sold in UHF-only areas, it could be '61-'63 or even a year earlier. Difficult to tell without knowing where the TV was purchased originally.

CTC-12 sounds about right for the chassis. I had a Sears-Silvertone roundie, metal cabinet table model, that was very likely an RCA clone as well, with the secondary video and tone controls hidden behind a flip-down door at the lower right corner of the cabinet. That was my first color set; didn't work so well (convergence was way off, it developed a hum bar and color-sync trouble two years after I got it, and the video PC board cracked when I tried to replace the 6AW8 video output tube), but I learned quite a bit about the workings of NTSC color TV while working on it.
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