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I found out that I actually have a spare chassis for my new TV, which is awesome... got it a couple years ago with a bunch of stuff from an old TV repair man I bought my Silvertone roundie from, so I am covered for a significant number of the harder to find repair parts. To be honest I don't really like watching the roundie as much as the CTC38, to me the CTC38 is a "normal" TV, and I can watch it as though it's brand new, where I can never forget that the round screen Silvertone isn't giving me the whole picture.
I don't think the wave at the top of the screen is totally pincushion related, I got it looking better but it's still not perfect. It also has a little bit of a bend in the vertical direction, I am thinking the electrolytic capacitors are approaching design life and could stand to be retired. My 38 also has some purity issues (red looks a bit pink in one corner), and the greyscale needs to be adjusted. Once I get the Sams and a full new set of 6GH8 tubes I will pull the chassis and change all the electrolytic capacitors, then give it a basic setup - adjust purity, touch up static convergence check dynamic convergence (hopefully I don't have to do much with it!!), set grey scale and cutoff, adjust AGC and color killer, etc etc... I want it at its best.
Mine also has a 25XP22 CRT, I am very happy with the picture quality in general, aside from the fact it is old and needs a bit of a tune-up. I see a lot of potential though.
I am not sure what to call the style of my cabinet... I'd call it late 60s rec room, it won't win any design awards but at least the condition makes up for the lack of awesome design. I really want this TV to be in the living room but need to figure out where to put it so it doesn't make things look too junky.
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