Hi I just picked up this rca from CL for every day watching it has a 26 inch screen and works very well still has a strong crt.
I was just wondering how these tended to hold up and where was RCA making there TV's at by 91 still here or overseas by then?
Sorry I just realized I put this in the wrong forum but am not shure how to switch it to the solid state one.

Hi, It should be a Thomson set.... not horrid.
I can't remember the exact year, but I think RCA was pretty much "done" by 1985. I think the GE takeover was in 86, and GE sold off the brand to Thomson in '88, where it remained until Thomson dumped the brand to some Chinese group in the early 2000's.

That looks like a CTC 159 or so. Not real bad--ALWAYS had a good tube, hot chassis but sometimes with A/V in-out. Not real hard to repair. IIRC thee had a good deal of vertical problems, mainly caps and the LA7830 chip I think.

Per OP's request...thread moved to SS.

That looks like a CTC 159 or so. Not real bad--ALWAYS had a good tube, hot chassis but sometimes with A/V in-out. Not real hard to repair. IIRC thee had a good deal of vertical problems, mainly caps and the LA7830 chip I think.
Looks like CTC 159 to me to. Not a CTC175-176-185-186 &
thats good !
Good sets, not a lot of problems. Its the bread & butter chassis
used in low to mid step sets. Never seen a bad CRT, in fact only
time a saw bad ones in 90's RCA were high miles hotel & hospital
sets. No question RCA had the best tubes in the 90's.

73 Zeno:smoke:

I have an RCA CTC185 from 1999 that still works as well as the day I bought it. I don't use it much these days since getting a flat screen just over three years ago, but I am keeping the RCA around to use if or when the FP set quits. My CTC185 has an excellent CRT for a set that's almost 15 years old; the only problem I ever had with it was a broken RF antenna connector about six months after I bought the set, and once again (!) a few months later. Don't know why the connector broke the second time. :scratch2:

Now, almost 15 years later, the set works quite well. I must have been very lucky to have gotten a "good" CTC185 (I never had any problems with the tuner, although the technician who replaced the antenna connector the second time did resolder the ground points around the shield), considering all the problems this particular chassis seems to have had.

I had one that was almost the same. It was all black and Sears-branded. CTC159.

i sold a lot of those sets. they are workhorses it will run for years and years. they had great crt's in them. steve

Thanks for the replys im glad there dependable sets!

That looks like a CTC 159 or so. Not real bad--ALWAYS had a good tube, hot chassis but sometimes with A/V in-out. Not real hard to repair. IIRC thee had a good deal of vertical problems, mainly caps and the LA7830 chip I think.

A hot chassis? In something that new?