I hate to say this but guess I should..
Well...

My CTC-9 Latham yesterday morning met it's demise with unfavorable fate!!!!
So As you know late last year I made a trip down to LA to pick up this beauty and drug it home and started the restoration process. The CRT was soft but woke up after a while. It still had alot of purity issues that i couldnt resolve. It is a beauty and looks identical to Zenith26kc20's CTC-9.

Well long story short, we had a roof leak problem that I was not aware of and the ceiling caved in right over the set busting off the neck of the 21AXP22 CRT! The back was off and wet drywall and insulation covered the set. Well I cleaned it up and wiped and oiled the cabinet when woke up to find this.

I havent been on here much the last few months, busy with family and work and other stuff and haven't had much time to tinker with my set either, but now im just saddened about this.

Just thought i'd get it off my chest.

ctc-9 with a 21axp22?mine has a 21cyp22.sorry to hear about this.what all is still useable?

Oops, my bad, i is a CYP.. Sorry, i was thinking of my other set and moderate frustration. Everything is still there and ok, just a busted neck and the socket got chipped but it's okay.

crap... oh well stuff happens

OOOOH! That is so sad!

Hope you can locate a spare CRT.

"Needle in the haystack" i'm sure...

At least the cabinet is not damaged and cleaned up well.

OOOOH! That is so sad!

Hope you can locate a spare CRT.

It could've been worse, like a CTC5 with a 21AXP22. You can always use an FB in that set for now.

Well I've got a spare 21FBP/FJP sitting in my garage that I'd offer you if you were in driving distance of me. I believe that the later round tubes can work as substitutes (with some modification to the set), and a number of spares have turned up at estate sales this summer so it may not be hard to get a later tube for cheap to use untill a CYP shows up, then keep as a spare.

Hope your set burned through it's next few decades of bad luck in this incident. Some times that jerk murphy hangs around a set and keeps quoting his law...

Tom C.

Sorry to hear this. I'm sure you can find a replacement CRT eventually, or at least another set to steal one from. If I were in your shoe's I'd be even more freaking out about the roof damage. I always get stressed out over big unplanned projects.

Really sorry to hear that. I worry about mine just working on it but to have Mother Nature get it. What a disaster!:sigh:

Yeah, guess that re roofing project went a year too long. I went up and repaired the culprit already, cedar shake shingles are horrible.

Yikes! What a bummer. Really sorry to hear this. I hope you can get another CRT.

That's an unfortunate event, but a 21CYP22 or 21FBP22 should be easier to find than if it had been a 21AXP22. If I hear of anything available in this area, I will let you know.

Sorry to hear, Shawn.... I know the feeling. At least you can know that you didn't do it carelessly. I did something worse about 3 months ago. My mint-condition Honda VF1000R motorcycle, which I've had for years, needed a new fuel filter, which is under the gas tank. I carefully removed the tank, and balanced it on the seat, since I was too lazy to undo the vapor hoses, etc to lay the tank safely on a pad on the ground. Well, it fell :-(....... That bike is so rare, that to find a tank with original mint-condion paint, is a little costly http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/?cmd=ViewItem&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649&item=280718615970&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT . I was going to have it fixed, but I couldn't get the correct decals, and fakes are $300. Long story short, I lucked out, and got one in very nice shape on eBay with a Buy-It-Now 2 weeks ago for a very good price, and it's all good. But I still am mad at myself for that!

I wish you the best in getting another tube for it, and I have confidence that you will.

Charles

Yep, this stuff has probably happened to all of us. I'm working on a 630ts now, that I got in really good condition (with all knobs, glass, top, and back) - a few months ago I had it precariously balanced on the arm of a sofa, my cat jumped on it, knocked it on the floor, and the glass broke.

HI,I know how you feel.I had a CTC9 that ran good until hurricane andrew claimed it in august 1992.The 200mph winds tore the house apart and threw the set into the wall,smashed the cabinet and broke the neck off the original 21CYP22A picture tube.Ninteen years later I still have the recapped chassis,model #210CK857U in a box hoping I could find a cabinet or a crt to make it a complete set again.Anyways,goodluck on locating another good picture tube.-RCAVIC

Regretfully, the remote control CTC15 my parents purchased new in the mid 60’s perished in the late eighties after 20 some years of faithful service. That TV was one reason I developed an interest in early Color TV. The set developed the typical cataract and for that reason it was placed in storage, with hopes that one day I might get it back out and revisit its fogged safety glass. While it was in storage, a shelving unit collapsed and caved in the back of the set snapping the neck off the picture tube. At that time it was just another failed piece of junk; today I would have rescued it and saved the set for a future rebuild. That TV ate countless 6GH8’s from what I remember, but above that it never really suffered any catastrophic failures except the cataract which pushed it aside, still in a functional state! That was a sad day for me: it was our friend that kept us kids company after school, Dad entertained with countless football games, and tormented Mom with the sounds of early video games, …only to be parted out and discarded not even a year after it was put in storage. Maybe one day I’ll find another CTC-15 to re-live my youth; until then I found my new CTC-11 which is proudly displayed in my home, and after it’s rebuild I can find those re-runs of Gilligans Island, Munsters, and Star Trek to watch – no video games though!!!

While it was in storage, a shelving unit collapsed and caved in the back of the set snapping the neck off the picture tube. At that time it was just another failed piece of junk; today I would have rescued it and saved the set for a future rebuild.

I lost a bunch of stuff the same way, the night before I planned to empty the storage. The shelving was there for 75+ years - who knew it was going anywhere? Lost my '85 Magnavox I grew up with, a few turntables and typewriters, a '78 Zenith.

Don't worry, where all TV repairmen eventualy go, there is nothing but high heat conditions and pitchforks.

Don't forget the brimstone.......

What prompted this insinuation that we're going to hell?

Most TV repairmen are good people (with a few exceptions as is the case with any large group).