A heck of a lot has transpired since my last post in this thread: College finals, a move from an apartment into a sizable house, work on the CTC-4, and I have on going remodeling(my folks are counting on my skills), emptying out of my families HUGE storage unit and work to get my stuff set up and arranged(which is tough to do considering that the other two things eat up a comparable amount of time to college).
I have not mannaged to work on the CTC-4 since the move, but before that I was working to remove the rust from the tuner shields and making decent progress(I lost some screws though
). It was coming along nicely and almost done, but it is starting to rerust so I may just spray paint the offending surfaces silver and say 'good enough'. Part of me wants to use lacquer, but I don't have a great budget and want to save where I can.
About all the actual 'work' I've done on any of my equipment was setting up my stereo/video system (which not only is unfinished, but already needs to be mostly redone because of new finds changing the way I want to do things), fixing an Atwater Kent model 40 for (and with) a friend, and starting to spray paint a rusty TV cart that is a factory accessory for a Zenith set I like.
As the set sits the alignment is lousy, that damn IF intermittent persists, and I feel like, given the behavior of the color demods tinting the raster(or was it selective weak colors...crap I'm starting to forget things!), that there are probably off tolerance resistors that I need to look for and replace before taking Nick up on his generous offer to align it for me. Once it is aligned that may be it for the electronic end of the restoration unless I buy some fresh pots for the convergence board. I really doubt that I can preform the kind of cabinet restoration this set needs(I want to teach myself refinishing etc. later this summer if I can but don't know if I will have time), but I don't know if I will be able afford some of the repro parts I need for this set this year let alone pay for someone to restore the cabinet.
I've got a lot of projects calling for my services at present, but one of these days I'll get back on it.