She's a runner!!!

[freakaftr8]

Well I recieved all the replacement parts Friday for the ctc-16, got finished with it today, inspected my work, and re installed the chassis, powered up the set and voilla! What a picture!!! I went ahead and swapped out all three 27k 2W R-y B-y g-y grid resistors and x and z demod plate resistors, all were out of tolerance or open. Swapped out all wax caps, and replaced a few orange drops. This set looks better than my Chromacolor II!!! Oh yeah, the 21FJP22 reads great and within 15% between red green and blue! Found a few out of tolerance resistors for the 2nd video IF as well which explaind the video smearing. Vertical was wonky due to a faulty 150k resistor between the vert height and lin pots and the cardboard axial lytic cap on the vertical sweep board. Not enough blue screen caused by a faulty 100k 1W resistor for the blue screen pot. found the same for red screen as well... The raster on this set is exceptionally bright and very well focused, I spent a few hours tweakin the screens and bias to get a great greyscale, then used my B&K on crosshatch and finnesed the convergence to near perfect. I really appreciate all you guys help as I battled this monster! It's deffenatly rewarding! Shoot, it's got such an awesome picture that im using it at the moment to play my XBOX!

[andy]

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[freakaftr8]

Good idea! , brb gonna go grab my camera

[radiotvnut]

Glad you got that set going again! You've certainly got a winner there that I know you'll always be proud of! Can't wait to see the pictures!

[MRX37]

I'm glad too that you managed to get it working. I had been wondering whether or not you would.

Here's to hoping it runs another 50 years!

[freakaftr8]

Here's some pics...

[freakaftr8]

[freakaftr8]

That first pic kinda looks like that scene from nightmare on elm street when that dude got sucked into the roundie in that abondened house huh! lol

[Dan Starnes]

The color sure pops,, nice goin.
Dan

[Bill R]

I always thought the 16 was one of the best pictures around. Especially the later runs with a good 21fjp22a rare earth crt. Great job.

Bill R

[Tony V]

Thats awesome! I believe an easy fix isnt as gradifying as one you got to chase down and dig in to fix. You tend to appreciate the set more afterwards, learn a little bit and have a sense of accomplishment when your done. In your case the aggravation was well worth it as you now have a great playing set. Good job and enjoy!
-Tony

[jpdylon]

man that is schweet!!!

Got to get mine finished

[Duane]

Excellent job What a nice looking set.

[freakaftr8]

Thanks guys, you know im suprised to find such rich contrast in this crt, it's only a 21fjp22 not an "a" rare earth crt as far as I can tell. And judging by the cataract that built up on it before removal, I think its original, the crt has no paper tags glued to it, the only thing it has is a white label 1/2"high 1.5"long that says 21FJP22 . Looks really good when I play HALO on it from the XBOX... lol.

My B&K 465 got damaged in shipping, the needle got bugered up from the faceplate coming off and bouncing around the box, it's finicky when adjusting g2 out of cut off. and at the 5-8 heater range, cranked the heater voltage up, it wont reach 6.3. Think ill file a claim and get another tester. I need it for my B&W Maggie combo anyway.

[gadget73]

Good deal. I was actually thinking the first pic looked like something from one of the old Doctor Who intros.