Another CTC-11

[bgadow]

A long time coming-years dreaming & nearly a year of work, but the addition to our house is done & I'm moving in to my radio & TV rooms. Finally, I can share some of my collection. First I thought I'd show this, model 212 G 805 MV, CTC-11C chassis. Here is it's story:
In the mid-90s I stopped into an indoor/outdoor flea market about 2 hours from home. There, at one of the regular vendors, sat this TV. The bad news was that the owner wasn't in that day-his neighbor told me the fellow would definately be there the following week. Not too happy about it, having to travel all the way back over there again, but when he told me the price-$15-I stopped complaining. (later my then girlfriend, who was with me, told me she was sure he actually said $50, but he didn't complain about the $15 I gave him...) Initially the set had a sync problem that I could not readily cure & it sat for awhile. Finally, about 2 years ago I started to toy with it. I had just about got the sync problem remedied when it began throwing the internal breaker just as the HV came up. Turned out to be a bad can capacitor. After that came some other horizontal problems that I had to troubleshoot-I was learning a lot about this time, some of it thanks to this set. Once I stopped messing around & got all new tubes in the horizontal circuit, plus all new electrolytics, it started behaving right.
This set has a rebuilt crt, Channel Master if memory serves. Has the beginning of cataracts but not noticable yet. It does have some signs that the crt is weak-kinda dark until it warms up, and not as bright as I'd like it at best. I need to run the set through a thorough setup now that it sits in it's permanent home.