Well, USPS, “says” that the 66meg focus resistor is in the mailbox, but I won't fall for that again after the thermistor fiasco, I won't believe it until it's in my hands.
FEDEX says that the replacement for the 130pf cap in the focus circuit will come Friday, now there seems to be some flexibility on the value of a usable replacement, CTC 10-16 SAMs list no sub for it other than the RCA part# @130pf, but in the CTC 20, a 120pf is listed as a replacement, however, in the GE CTC 15 & 1/5 clone, it lists a 150pf as one, which I have used successfully, and since the focus circuits are all identical for the most part in all of them, I got another 150pf / 15kv for CTC-16XL.
Meaning that now, I should have have all the parts needed to do all the minor updated to my RCA that I had been wanting to do, including removing that black wire I have grounding the delay line, and grounding to the nearest gnd point via a heavy lead from a power resistor, the thicker, the better.
But, I'm still debating on to try it this weekend or to try and get the GE clone downstairs, setup and converged.
It's still too heavy for me to move on my own, so I'd have to bribe someone to help, or take it apart, IE remove the CRT from the cabinet and take them down separately, ( which I really don't want to do ).
The specs say a 21FJP22 is 43lbs, the cabinet rough guess is 20lbs? Separately, easy enough for one person to move, even with a shoulder that's healing fro surgery, together,, NOT... the chassis is very light compared to the CTC-16XL, and even the FADA rca 630ts clone, I was surprised at how light it was, like someone pointed out, GE= Good Enough.
Still not sure which way I'll go this weekend.
