A rare site, an RCA CTC17x that's never had the tuner soldered

[dieseljeep]

When I first saw this thread, I never knew about problems with the CTC17X.
The CTC177X was a different story! Years ago, when I worked on the first one, I soldered all the grounds and IIRC the seam on the can. I don't remember having one come back. As I understand it can even corrupt the E-prom. They used to sell re-programmed E-proms.
As I understand, RCA picked up the tab to repair some of these sets.
Around that time, GE dumped RCA to TCE.