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If the outside isn't grounded well, you can get a nice static 'jolt' off it. Ask me how I know. Also the silver coating has a habit of flaking off, so the static charge has no where to go. Solution as with glass is to apply dag.
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Ditto on tube life. By the time I found my CTC-4, it had like 3 hang tags in it for CRT replacement. Amazingly, the last one was dates '73 or something like that.
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Tobacco soot + high voltage can really collect dust in a hurry (we've all seen what smokers sets look like inside!) so if they were that might account for the frequent problems. |
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I with you on that.. I'll probably plug in the set I just got from ebay that got totally destroyed during shipping.. Watch it go up in smoke.. Hell, I may even help it..
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On my Wingate (ctc-5) there was a crack in the plastic, the arc from the metal cone shot up thru that to the dag on the plastic. I had a spare plastic shroud so I just replaced it, I did seal the orig with some silicone but never tried it out.
I have another ctc-5 (metal cabinet faux blonde finish IIRC) that has the special chassis, not the delux like the wingate has. I really need to get on that one and see if its ok. I got it from a local guy, mainly as a back up CRT, as he said he never had it going and was told it had a bad flyback, but I have heard that so many times and found that not to be the case. It looks OK so I am hopeful it will be fine. |
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And I second that, my Gramma had one of these! Congrats!
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My father smoked. Maybe that was the cause of the problem. Thankfully, I never picked up the habit.
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