CTC-9 from North Hills CA

[freakaftr8]

Hey all

well I decided to test the CRT in this set last night. I pulled the back off and to my surprise all the tubes appear to be original!! The boards are in excellent condition and no burning. They are really clean and the whole chassis looks like it has extremely low use. The flyback is pristine!! OMG this set is like new surprisingly. The CRT tested dead so I cooked it for a few on 8v with my sencore. The emission came up in the blue then the red. Green was still almost non existent. So I let it go overnight. woke up this morning to a surprise. All 3 guns on the 21CYP22 tested great! So also yesterday I checked out the chassis and looked for shorts. Pulled he horiz output tube and brought up the set slowly light bulb stayed dim. Got sound and held there with no shorts. This morning replaced the HOT and crossed my fingers. Viola. Bright vivid picture on my BK color bar and alignment tester! Nice color and the fly is staying cool. Later this week I'm going to order the lytics for the power supply. I don't trust 1959 caps.