I'm lucky to have got this set. I found it the late Saturday before a 2 week summer vacation that had a local radio swapmeet the next weekend so I gave a down payment and asked the seller to wait close to a month. Thursday night despite being fully vaccinated I got a 101 degree fever after feeling monsterously tired many hours before bedtime...That along with muscle aches and other things led ma to conclude I caught covid, despite the vaccines, and give me some horse ivermectin she'd bought last year incase we caught the dreadded beer virus. Friday I was normal except I had the runs all day and ma was badgering me hard to cancel. Early Friday I informed the seller what I was dealing with and asked him if he wanted to reschedule and he did not. I just stayed the course of treating my symptoms in hopes I'd be well Saturday... Despite some mild stomach discomfort by the grace of god I've been fine since I woke up Saturday. When I bought the set the owner told me of other early color collectors trying to buy it and then backing out by BSing him about medical issues and him telling them he was going to part it out....If I hadn't convinced myself I'd be well enough in time to make the trip and done everything I could to make that wellness come to pass I'd have lost my chance.
I unloaded it yesterday it's the 21" model. The set needs a complete refinish with the amount of flaked off toner lacquer and the fade from mahogany to greenish yellow in various places.
The design is interesting, It's schematically it's similar to a CTC-4 but with different tubes, no PCBs, and its own chassis layout. The chassis and CRT are mounted to a common baseboard that bolts into the cabinet...So if you remove the baseboard assembly from the cabinet it becomes its own test jig.
Capeheart CXC-13
http://earlytelevision.org/pdf/capeh...sams_327-3.pdf
RCA CTC-4
http://earlytelevision.org/pdf/rca_ctc4_sams_314-9.pdf
The white CTC-4 style CRT mask, older than CTC-4 looking brass handle face edge purity magnets, and the cardboard delay line (RCA CTC-4 used a flexible molded plastic delay line) make me wonder if this was built when the CTC-4 was still in development.
The previous owner has done a partial recap changing most of the paper caps, but leaving the lyrics original. Some of the caps look like they were scrounged out of used BPC sets so I'm probably going to partially redo some of the work to bring it up to my standards.
Since it has been powered up within my lifetime I decided to variac it. It came up and produced a raster and 16KV of HV so I have a good starting point for restoring the electronics to opperation.
