CT-100 color sync issue?

[Phil Nelson]

Silly me, I thought I would just step over to my CTC-11 and borrow its crystal, but of course that's conveniently mounted under the chassis.

In the shop I found a board from a junked 1980s TV with a crystal. If I can unsolder that and add little leg extensions without burning it up, maybe that will do for a substitution test.

Say that I wanted to go nuts and buy a new one -- where to look? A quick romp through Digi-Key and Allied didn't turn up much. I don't care if it looks exactly like this one, as long as it has two legs that I can solder prongs onto somehow.



Phil

[ohohyodafarted]

Phil,

Look for a NTE358 crystal. It has the same style case but the legs are smaller diameter. What I do is wrap a layer of very fine copper wire around the legs of the NTE358 and then solder the layer of wire. If you use the right gauge copper wire to wrap with, you will add just enough thickness to the legs so they fit snugly into the crystal socket on the ct100. When you finish the nte358 will mount and look like the original.

Warning do not use a NTE358A

I looked high and low for the correct style as used in the ct100 and there are none to be had unless you find one in a junker set.