OK, who's spreading the BS around?

[Pete Deksnis]

This latest batch of pictures tell the following stories:

[1] This is a factory original CT-100 as indicated by '805' in each of the three cabinet parts: the front control cover, the cabinet, and the lid.
[2] This is a CTC2 and not a CTC2B. To identify a CTC2, start with the power transformer and move across the chassis to the HV cage. A CTC2 has a gray potted transformer extending from the cage (the vertical convergence transformer, a source of headaches to many operational CT-100 caretakers). A CTC2B does not use the same part, and the cage itself is larger.
[3] The channel indicator, if it exists at all (the pictures are mostly soft) is suspect. Unfortunately, it is quite common to have a channel indicator loose its CT-100.
[4] The spring return on the pencil box is sprung.
[5] The CRT is toast according to the photographs. I see a getter. I see no getter flash. There is a soft, brownish splotch where a getter flash might be, and in one picture there is a black-like splotch on the top of one of the three neck images. The same spot is not black in the other two images. So, because the photographs suck, let's assign a 20-percent chance that the tube is good. Plus, I've gotta ask, who went to see the set? What did the CRT look like? Did I miss a post?

This is a $2000 set at this point.

Pete