[mstaton]

Originally Posted by vintagecollect

I had a 25mc33 bought at a thrift for $35 or something similair, cleaned the controls and used it for 6 months unrestored.



The RCA's I had lost interest in since they routinely fried resistors and tubes . Sold Zenith since had cheap cabinet, SHOULD of had custom cabinet made, best roundie ever had, great picture too.

RCA's have crapola designs pushing parts to operating limits one prolific collector I know restores them just to keep for static display,which is what RCA's basically good for.........................

That may be your experience but not everyone's. I have a CTC 9 that was ran from 1959 through the mid 90's with all its original parts(excluding CRT's and some tubes), even the original fly. I have not found one replacement cap or resistor in that set and I looked thoroughly.(I still use the set) Sure some RCA's can be more problematic than others(and so can Zeniths). I have a friend that watches his RCA's daily and NO issues so far. He had more issues with his 2 Zenith roundies