CTC-7 is coming MY way!

[miniman82]

My chassis was full of old wax caps, and so is yours. Make sure you remember to pull that metal plate covering the color circuits under the chassis, there's a slew of them under there as well. Once you do the wax and lytic caps, it'll play like a million bucks.

[Phil Nelson]

Yes, RCA and Philco factory manuals are excellent. I wish it were easier to find them.

Your flyback may be OK despite some dripped wax. I have seen a few old ones that looked ugly but still worked fine. Check the cathode current on the horizontal output tube, of course, but I get the idea you already know about that.

Have fun!

Phil Nelson

[IsthmusTV]

Congrats on the great find! I wouldn't worry too much about the fly. Mine had also dripped lots of wax but it seems to be just fine. Here's the thread about mine. It's the later chassis without the 5U4s.
http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=252097
I've replaced just about all the "maroon drops" as well as all the electrolytics and few few resistors and it's playing very nicely.

Miniman said: "Make sure you remember to pull that metal plate covering the color circuits under the chassis, there's a slew of them under there as well."

Mine was missing this. Is it possible it was omitted in later versions?

Good luck and enjoy!

-Clark

[miniman82]

Only shot I still have online, but the panel in question is removed. You can see where it's supposed to go though, center right below the delay line. 5 screws hold it in, the 4 you can see and a fifth that's on the panel towards the bottom right.

[IsthmusTV]

Thanks, Nick. It looks like it would easy to fabricate one. I'll put it on my list of things I still need to do with this set. I'm curious to know if the shield is in place on holmesuser01's set.

-Clark