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05-06-2004, 11:46 PM
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RCA CTC15/ Silvertone Frankenset
Been putting this set together from parts. CRT and tuner from Texas. Yoke from Maryland. Vertical output transformer from Pennsylvania. Cabinet from Alabama. Chassis from Georgia. Thanks to all the AKers whom helped me out. Still need the ring that holds the purity adjustment tabs. The magnet things on the Convergence coils. A lateral magnet assembly is needed also. Am really close to putting this set together. Any help would be appreciated.
polaraman 
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05-08-2004, 10:30 AM
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Wish I had realized this sooner... I could have sent those parts along! Can't right now... I am southbound in the Atlantic watching the east coast of Florida go by!
It is interesting to know that this set was built using parts from all over the U.S. Almost sounds like a good CT-100 story! 
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05-09-2004, 10:36 PM
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Would love to have the CRT cup. I am at the level of putting the vertical output transformer in. The black spot at the tuning knobs is where the gold foil backed thin plastic cover fell off. I have some gold metallic paint to fix it up. Also have to get under a board and solder a crack. May power up the HV to see what I get. Do not have a fly tester. Would be fun to have the frankenset working. Charlie, I can wait till you get back from your cruise for the other parts. Thank you all again for helping me.
polaraman
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05-10-2004, 12:06 AM
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Your set reminds me . . .
. . . of a 1964 Silvertone roundie (table model) I had in the early '70s. Your TV's front control panel is very similar to mine, even down to the flip-down door in front of the contrast, tone, etc. controls below the color, tint and brightness controls. The only differences I could see, and they are very slight, are in the style of channel selector and volume knobs and the fact that your set has the illuminated channel window above the selector (mine had a white nameplate with "Silvertone|Color" in gold script lettering set into the space used in other models for the channel drum). The channel numbers on my set were originally on the selector knob itself, but when I got the set the numbers were pretty well worn off and the part of the knob they were on was so loose it moved every time I changed channels. Oh well. I lived in a Cleveland suburb at the time and knew where our three (at that time) network stations were on that set, even with no numbers on the knob. Didn't bother me a bit. I used that set three years, until the video-output tube socket broke out of its PC board.
 The gold insert you mentioned is probably a cover for a hole used to mount a UHF tuner in certain models of this chassis. Many TVs, b&w and color, of early '60s vintage had this kind of knockout cover, usually located below or near the VHF tuner, behind which was a bracket with a hole designed for mounting of a factory UHF tuner; the tuner itself had an RCA phono plug input jack for the output of the factory tuner, which was activated when the VHF channel selector was set to the UHF position between channels 2 and 13. I've seen this in several RCAs, Sylvanias and other TVs of that vintage although the factory UHF adapter kits are very difficult to find, if you can find them at all (there may, however, be a few on ebay); better just to use a UHF converter or a cable box for all-channel reception on these oldies.
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Jeff, WB8NHV Collecting, restoring and enjoying vintage Zenith radios since 2002 Zenith. Gone, but not forgotten. Last edited by Jeffhs; 05-10-2004 at 12:21 AM.
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06-26-2005, 07:18 PM
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Frankenset is on the operating table. I finally got all the stuff to make it complete. I had to attatch many different parts from many different folks. I stitched it all together over the last few days. I also had to replace the vertical output transformer. Then there was the burnt stuff under the chassis. I put it together and tried my luck. The tube filaments was the only thing to light. A positive move in the right direction if you ask me.
 I fully expected an early 4th fireworks show. My next move are the lytics.polaraman
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06-27-2005, 07:36 AM
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This set had ultrasound remote control, ain't that so?
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06-27-2005, 11:48 PM
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Being that this set was pieced together with parts from SO MANY different sets... it just might be possible... at least with one of the donors! LOL
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