Motorola 16CK1 restoration complete

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Originally Posted by jr_tech

Anybody have an estimate of the number of these sets that were produced?

jr

Not sure, but it couldn't be very many. Based on the survivor rate of the CT100 of about 12 to 13% a ballpark guess would be around 500 sets total. John Folsom has the only other two known surviving sets. The 19 inch model came out shortly after this run and was then shifted to 21" production shortly there after.

Some aspects of the set are rather crude, and prototype like. IE: the HV cage is made from two halves of smaller cages (probably from a B&W set) that are spot welded together to make one larger cage. The back of the set (not shown) is from a B&W set that was re-silk screened for this color set. At the top of the back they painted over a label that indicated the set had a "roto antenna installed" in the set. The main chassis has a number of punch outs for items that were installed when the chassis was used to build some other model. Things like this point to the fact that Motorola was not convinced that they would sell very many sets, and used parts from other sets to keep development costs down. If large production numbers had been contemplated, they probably would have had special dedicated parts made instead of recycling and modifying parts from other sets

Bob