RCA Dimensia

[radiotvnut]

Today, I was a given a 19"/20" RCA-branded CTC146 from the early '90's. It still works; but, the CRT is a little tired. I'm going to adjust the G2 and focus controls and likely give it to the flea market to do with as they please. Frankly, I'm not in the mood to sit on it for the next six months to get $10 for it (and, have me getting more and more pissed off because I can't get $10 for a color TV). The owner of the flea market says he can still move them; so, best for me to let him deal with it. BTW, I think the CTC146 was the last 19" chassis before the CTC175 with the integrated tuner that had issues was introduced. I think the CTC146 was around from about 1987 until '92. There was also a CTC136 that was used in some 19" sets. In fact, my current set is a 19" GE CTC136 from 1989 and I recently gave away a 19" knob-tuned CTC136 from 1987. That's the chassis with the separate MTT tuner module that's also prone to bad solder connections. There was also a CTC130 that was used in lower-to-midline 25" sets from the mid-to-late '80's and I've seen a few higher end 20" sets that used the CTC130 chassis.