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I see at least two mentions of the RCA CTC-68 chassis here, but I worked on several of those in the early 1980s, and I thought they were just average. The two big issues I saw (limitations of the design as opposed to service problems) were: "Edge enhancement" in the video (basically, vertical edges in the picture had boosted contrast compared to other non-edge areas), and less-than-ideal HV regulation (meaning, the size and/or position of objects on the screen changed depending on the overall brightness of the content on the screen as a whole).
Honestly, I saw a lot of both of these problems on many American-brand color TV sets in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as another common issue, bright objects on the screen (such as white lettering) going out of focus if the contrast got set beyond a certain point. I just NEVER seem to have seen those problems on at least one foreign brand of TV set that I will mention when the "Best imported chassis" discussion starts.
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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