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Old 11-24-2003, 09:40 PM
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rca victor ctc16 available

I was at a local tv shop today to pick up some tubes and noticed they had a nice ctc16 combo unit. the set was given to the shop by the original owner as it was too nice to throw out. They fixed it up and got it working nice. Its a blonde french provincial cabinet, but the set is near mint. Here is the best part: It has the 7 button remote control! This set has the individual VHF and UHF spot light dials. The stereo and phono are very nice too. If anyone is interested, I'll go back and try to take some pics of it. They want $500 for it which is a bit steep, but its very rare considering its a remote set. I can hold it for as long as it needs to be held for. The 21FJP22 is catarac free and is pefectly bright. Very little wear on the knobs etc, looks like a low mileage set.
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Old 11-24-2003, 11:28 PM
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I love the CTC 16. A nice looking picture when tweeked. It's a good thing I live far away in LA or I would probably get it to keep my sets company...
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Old 11-25-2003, 05:57 AM
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steve,
nice ctc16. I love the ctc16 too! Ive only got 1 at the moment, and a spare ctc16 chassis. This combo unit thats at the shop has the same bezel/control layout for the tv unit.
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Old 11-25-2003, 07:00 AM
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My father (a longtime TV repairman and broadcast engineer before that) felt that the CTC-16 was the best RCA chassis of them all. As a teen and in college, I had a CTC-15 with no UHF tuner and a broken on-off switch (the whole shaft would pull out of the front of the set if one pulled on it!)... wish we'd have kept it.

I try not to read posts on this forum because the last thing I need to do is start collecting TV's!

Maybe a nice, small GE Portacolor, or one of those little, early 15" rectangular RCA tube color portables...?
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Old 11-25-2003, 10:17 AM
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There is a CTC 16 Cabinet, and 21FJP22 on ebay for sale. The set does not have a chassis. Ebay Auction Number is 2206122963. It is located in New York State.

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Old 11-25-2003, 05:08 PM
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here it is!

Model HF867VR. correction, they want $550. firm, this is no taxed and the set will be in excellent working condition. Its needs repair to the remote control unit, which they say will be no problem. The vhf drive motor has a problem. I never got to see the remote in operation, so I cant tell you what its doing, but they will have the set all fixed up before they sell it to me. (or whoever)
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Old 11-25-2003, 05:09 PM
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Old 11-25-2003, 07:11 PM
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What a beaut! Wish I was rich and/or had a spot for it.
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Old 11-26-2003, 06:55 AM
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I still think $550 is too much...I got a Zenith with a crt just as good, plus space command for $5. There is NO WAY that this set would sell around here for $550! Not that they wouldn't try...sometimes antique shops have given me console radios/TV's after they sat around for years and did not sell for their high prices.
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Old 11-26-2003, 08:17 AM
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Wasn't that one of Liberace's old sets?

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Old 11-26-2003, 09:10 AM
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Wow, Antique white! French Provincial! Just like my 1967 maggie remote! And I thought My set was the only ugly one out there!
I have to agree 550.00 is a little steep....
Also, The way they have it perched on that cart has me a bit worried, One wrong move and the "value" will go down considerably!

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Old 11-26-2003, 05:40 PM
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Yeah, it's ugly, but in a neat way. I bet they didn't sell many of these monsters!
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It seems that many things from 20 to 30 years ago look ugly to modern eyes. Back in 1970, bakelite radios from just after the war looked ugly. Nowadays it's stuff from the late 60's and the 70's that look awful. Give it another 15 years, and it will look great......
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Old 11-26-2003, 09:07 PM
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I have and will continue to collect sets like this one, But think even after giving it 50 years it will still be fugly!
They still deserve a place in collections though...
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Old 11-27-2003, 02:08 PM
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RCA antique-white console

I like that antique white RCA roundie console, but I have no room for anything that big in my very small apartment (not to mention antique white wouldn't match my furniture, even if I had the room). I have two TVs here, my RCA XL-100 19" which is my main set in the living room, and a Zenith Sentry 2 19" in my bedroom. The Zenith set works, but I don't use it much (except as a backup for the RCA). Both sets have remotes and are on cable (I live in a fringe area for Cleveland TV).

I also like those light-through channel selector knobs on the RCA console. I have had a liking for TVs with illuminated channel selector windows or knobs for as long as I can remember (about 30-some years ago, I had a 1963 Zenith 23-inch B&W console with a SpotLite channel selector knob). The Spotlite dials looked nice on Zenith TVs and other manufacturers' sets as well, but getting to the pilot light that illuminates the numerals so they project to the screen at the front of the knob can be a real problem. I think most set owners didn't even bother trying to replace the lamp when it eventually failed, or if they did have it replaced, they waited until something major went wrong with the set and had a service technician replace the bulb.

I like to think the OSD channel and time displays on all new and recent vintage color sets and cable converters are a modern replacement for those great old light-through dials. The nice thing about OSDs, IMO, is that, as I have mentioned in one of my earlier posts, there is no pilot light to go bad and need replacing every so often, depending on how much the set is used, of course.
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