Restoration begins on Ed Reitan's CTC-7

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In my last post, we mentioned that the left and right outer edges would not converge and the vertical height needed to be adjusted because the people’s heads were a bit squashed.

We swapped out the convergence assembly from the Pensbury CTC-7 into the Worthington and that went well. We now have nice convergence all the way to the edges. It turned out that a rectifier failed on the original. It was replaced and inserted into the Pensbury and all is well.

We then adjusted the vertical height and things look better. I have attached a series of new screenshots made after the final adjustments. They are from the 1948 movie, “The Red Shoes”. You may notice the images are oversized. I don’t like displaying letterbox images on a roundie, so we had to find a DVD player that has a zoom function. The cheap Sony I found only gives me a choice of 2X or 4X. It’s not progressive.

This link will take you to an image carousel and you can see full resolution images of any image. Tap in lower right corner.

https://visions4netjournal.com/2017/...-carousel-3674

This is our second restoration. The first was the RCA 21CT55 with a tired CRT.


I’m producing three videos to display on the Worthington. The first is a 15 minute sequence from the Wizard of Oz, the second is the entire Red Shoes ballet sequence and the third video will be the entire color special, “An Evening With Fred Astaire” complete with commercials.