Freakaftr8 you cursed my CTC-16XL!
tonight for some odd reason, the IF decided to fail again after working mostly for many months , now i get no video or sound T_T
i decided I was not going to bother hauling back up to the 2nd floor again and take it all apart to find out why at this point, but just switch back to video injection mode, and hope to fix it when ever I attempt to do an IF alignment on it. It gets better color this way anyway , the trade-off is retrace lines sometimes.
https://imgur.com/8wFk2gc <-- ignore the cheap cellphone cam shutter noise
pretty damn good for having bypassed the tuner / IF