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Originally Posted by Kamakiri
Just talked to the seller. Made him an offer well over the asking price to hang on to the set for me till next weekend, and paid by PayPal.
Mine! Mine mine mine mine mine 
Thanks John!!! |
Congratulations Tim! Great find!
I live in Syracuse and check the listings daily in Craigslist for Syracuse and surrounding areas. I did not see this one come up. Was it listed for only a few hours?
You may recall I restored a CTC5 Whitby with the Deluxe chassis picked up in Toronto a couple of years ago. I feel the CTC5 is a good set but it has had a bad rap. Perhaps it is because the design had problems with the saggy HV Supply. It is good you have this set as we can open more CTC5 discussion. I have been putting off doing further work on my set and now will pursue this.
It looks like the Arliss has it's original 21AXP22A. Mine did and I was surprised that the tube survived and emission tested excellent. Perhaps the reason the CRT survived was the drooping HV problem which made the picture a bit dim which deterred extra use? I trust the CRT in the Arliss will be good.
On a side note, the CTC5 and all subsequent RCA vacuum color tube sets, (up and beyond the end of the roundies) employed X-Z color demodulation. Of these, only the Deluxe CTC-5 employed a wide band chroma channel (+1.5/-0.5MHz). The upside of this will be better chroma resolution and the downside will be quadrature crosstalk between X and Z channels. The trade off is interesting and I remain curious the why wideband chroma was dropped in subsequent RCA sets. Was it cost or perhaps no actual technical benefit ?(Wideband chroma would require an extra tube for the required extra amplification).
In any case, as you work on it I look forward to more CTC5 discussions!
Cheers,
Terry