CT-100 works! (but the zener mod didn't...)

[init4fun]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I'm surprised someone so confident in their tech knowledge actually let someone else do the resto of such an interesting set for them.

Originally Posted by David Roper

Are you? Confidence is important, but so is knowing one's limitations and being willing to work within those limitations. It's true that not much of the work bringing the set back t life was done by me, but it was more work than you've done on the set you haven't got.

It is obvious from the tone of these posts that there is prior friction between you two gents , and , in an interesting way you both do have valid points . David's point of not sharpening the skills on a rare set is well advised , as too is Tom's point of challenging oneself to the unknown as a path to further knowledge . The dividing line being , of course , how much risk is one willing to take with the first time restoration of a rare item , and to the person involved how much of the want of this item involves wanting to dive into restoring it VS having it in the collection as a restored rarity. Each person being different of course it's that person's choice and as long as the end result is another working CT-100 that's the bottom line . It kinda reminds me of two guys I know , one of them is a professional mechanic and on his off time fixes each and every thing on his car and won't pay a dime to have anyone else do the work . That guy hates car racing . The other guy is a car racing nut , he can tell you the technical stats of each of the racecars , really knows the specs of the cars inside and out and the stats of all the drivers too , but is too unsure of the handling of the actual tools to change the oil in his pickup truck by himself . Those two are forever zinging each other about who is the "real car guy" and to me they're both "real" car nuts , just with different things they want out of the hobby .

Bottom line , It's great that another CT-100 lives !

[benman94]

I've farmed out early color sets to other restorers simply because I've come to loathe working on early color. In turn, I've worked on more than a few brute-force HV sets for people too afraid (and for good reason) to work on them. At the end of the day it doesn't matter who the hell is doing the restoration work, so long as everyone is happy with the end result.
Your CT-100 is looking good Dave! Perhaps the red gun will wake up a bit with more use. I had a CTC-9 or 10 with a dead looking green gun that sprang back to life after 4 or 5 hours of use.