Thread: My new CTC-15
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Old 09-20-2017, 10:34 AM
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Reflowing CRT pins is not difficult but I hope you're not trying do it with a low-wattage pencil type iron. Use a Weller 100 watt gun. The tips tend to get concave on both sides of the original chisel-point and this is perfect for maximizing contact area. Place your tip as close to the base as possible and feed solder into the hole. It should flow toward the heat spot and full up the pin.

I successfully replaced a broken-apart CRT base on my test jig CRT and its working just fine. I am also working on a CTC15 chassis, that needs lots of solder-pencil work as standard procedure. It also has a shorted flyback (not burned up), for which I have a NOS RCA#113382 replacement that was made in Mexico.
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