My first Roundie: a CTC-16 in a chineese cabinet

[jpdylon]

A followup to this thread.

A 1962(?) CTC-16 in a chineese cabinet. I bought it from the original owner, an 85 year old lady who was quite nice. Her son, who posted the craigslist ad was wanting to gut it and put something else in the cabinet, but she was glad to see it go to someone who would fix it up.

Upon unloading it into the shop I pulled the back off to find 30+ years of thick dust. It had been serviced at some point in its life, judging by the sticker from a local shop on the back. The CRT is an RCA hi-lite, a brand new Grade AA tube. I'm not sure when it was installed, but there is just a slight cataract barely noticable from a distance -- I'll probably leave it alone for awhile. All tubes but the HO, h-oscillator, and voltage regulator appear to be original.

I haven't powered it up yet. Should I just pull all the tubes and bring it up little by little? Or just re-cap everything and power it up? THe flyback looks ok, and doesn't appear to have any noticable heavy flaw. There is a small black mark near the core, but I won't know for sure if its dead until I try to fire it up. From what I can tell the fuses are intact and the breaker has not tripped.

Can't wait to start diggin into this guy. I'm stoked