CTC-5 64th Happy Halloween - 2021

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Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

If you were not so darn far away, I'd take it for $10, Just to have a 3rd color roundie, even if it it junk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dGh7p1tZmk

Hehe, " shangoed " so he's the new rube goldberg of the vintage age? :p

There's always U-ship.

The chassis seems to be sound. The CRT and cabinet are basically junk. I mean if you were someone into doing auto body you could bend cut and weld in a patch in an afternoon, pound out the dent and touch up the paint. I've done similar on cars but my sheet metal welding equipment/skills aren't up to snuff yet.

What sucks is I gutted and sold a pristine early control panel CTC16 cabinet to repuosers this summer because it's flyback was shot and I needed it's CRT (which spontaneously cracked and went to air 1 hour of use later) for other set.
Had I known I was going to buy this I'd have used it's chassis to make that other CTC-16 console work.

Shango tends to resurrect stuff with minimal new parts in ways that, while entertaining, are usually too half-assed for anything that an owner genuinely cares about...Which is perfect for me on a set like this.
What's probably going to happen is around Wednesday when nobody has bought it I'll list it on my local marketplace for repurposing, stick my down to air CRT in, pull the chassis, glue the knobs on the cabinet and keep the chassis and back....And if that don't sell the cabinet goes to the metal recycling and maybe I crunch the dud jug.

The chassis is good enough to be a spare and or parts donor for my remote CTC16 Stockholm.