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Old 10-18-2014, 11:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Gunslinger View Post
Blue knob is blue lateral adjustment. CTC 38's had transistors in the IF stage go bad. They are 4 legged; ECG 161 was listed as replacement but were not a good choice if I remember correctly. The inverter transistors failed also. You will need #124754 and 124753 for OEM parts. I probably still have them. I hve never had to replace a nuvistor tube in a RCA tuner ever.
Hey thank you for the response !

I subsequently figured out that what actually removed the grain from the picture was not changing the nuvistor, as I thought, but disturbing the 300/75 ohm balun on the back of the set. It had a bad connection. What symptoms would result in needing those transistors?

My real concern now is how to adjust vertical centering. I noticed older sets have a control for this, but this one doesn't so far as I can tell.
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