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Originally Posted by miniman82
You may live to regret not getting the repro from John, they all fail sooner or later. Consider it a maintenance item, when it goes it takes the focus pot with it and I promise you'll never find another- I've tried.
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My spare chassis still has those parts. On-off switch too.
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Originally Posted by benman94
I've farmed out early color sets to other restorers simply because I've come to loathe working on early color. In turn, I've worked on more than a few brute-force HV sets for people too afraid (and for good reason) to work on them. At the end of the day it doesn't matter who the hell is doing the restoration work, so long as everyone is happy with the end result.
Your CT-100 is looking good Dave!  Perhaps the red gun will wake up a bit with more use. I had a CTC-9 or 10 with a dead looking green gun that sprang back to life after 4 or 5 hours of use. |
Good to hear from you! As you know, I have another, arguably even more "interesting" 1954 color set to restore when I'm ready. I've been encouraged to go for it under the logic that once you've been successful in restoring three B&W sets, you're ready for a color set--except it's like working on all three at once. So by rights I guess I should have completed three or four color restorations by now. On the other hand, I know you came by your loathing honestly. I think the as-found condition of each set was the factor that determined the CT-100 would be left to expert hands while I would (eventually) tackle the 205 myself.
As for the red gun waking up, yes! In fact the whole thing was sleepy. The first two times the tube was powered on it took every bit of twenty minutes to warm up, with almost nothing visible on the screen for the first five; now it's almost ready in five. Although I was not able to play a DVD of test slides that I burned for the purpose of a full setup, I still made wonderful progress with color balance last night.