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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
Um, YUP.
On my CTC-36, replaced 4 5GH8s on the first go round. After testing the rest of the tubes, it needs one more. Along with the 24LQ6 (nearly dead), 5AQ5, 3KT6 (weak and shorted), and 6HL8.
By the time I get done sourcing and buying these tubes (everything I have is too old, I spent an hour rummaging through my loose tube boxes), I will have replaced every tube in the set, aside from the 3A3....including the picture tube.
This is the way these sets were when new? Holy hell, it's a wonder anyone that owned one ever bought another RCA!  |
When they got a few years on them most of them were like that.
Just like compactron sets ( GE, Admiral) you could replace most
of the low level tubes one at a time & see improvement step by step.
Problem was it got pricy & made the customer suspicious.
Actually had them come down & see on a few high tube count
jobs why.
After we pretty much stopped doing tube jobs the owner
took in a CTC36 charity case. He told me to use up all the tubes I
wanted for free since we would never sell them. Damn near
replaced all the tubes & it had one of the best pixs I have seen.
My only other major gripe with '36's & later hybrid RCA's was the rear
control assy,s were crap & they were awkward to do real work on.
We got the jig cables for them & just pulled the chassii to get
them right, saved time in the end.
73 Zeno
