Looky what I got yesterday! :D

Just an empty cabinet, but if there was ever an empty cabinet worth building a set into, it's this one!

Every mark on the cabinet was a spot of dirt. The thing is nearly flawless :)

Definitely not the same luck with my pensbury cabinet... Has extensive finish damage it flakes off and gets stuck on my palm when I handle it. Nice score.

Great find Tim,

Probably my favorite CTC-7 set. I hope you locate a proper chassis & 21CY.
Any idea what happened to the original guts?

-Steve D.

That particular cabinet style must have been pretty popular in the day. I have one, too.

Great find Tim,

Probably my favorite CTC-7 set. I hope you locate a proper chassis & 21CY.
Any idea what happened to the original guts?

-Steve D.

My friend Ed has had this set for a decade or two. Unbelievably, it was a curb find from back then. No clue where the guts went....

I will say this.

I learned a lesson.

Never EVER ever ever ever ever take the screen mask of a CTC-7 apart, no matter how dirty it is. I thought it would take me ten minutes, it took me over 3 hours to get it back together. Parts popped out everywhere. I swore and yelled until I ran out of words to use and made up my own. Then I wanted to go find a Klingon dictionary and use THOSE.

I cursed David Sarnoff, his mother, his grandmother, and some other relations a couple times removed. And then I got mad.

Yes, I did get it back together. That job SUCKED.

I will say this.

I learned a lesson.

Never EVER ever ever ever ever take the screen mask of a CTC-7 apart, no matter how dirty it is. I thought it would take me ten minutes, it took me over 3 hours to get it back together. Parts popped out everywhere. I swore and yelled until I ran out of words to use and made up my own. Then I wanted to go find a Klingon dictionary and use THOSE.

I cursed David Sarnoff, his mother, his grandmother, and some other relations a couple times removed. And then I got mad.

Yes, I did get it back together. That job SUCKED.
As long as getting mad didn't involve keying the cabinet, I'd say you did all right.

Very beautiful cabinet! Definitely worth building a set into! Yeah, I remember when I took apart and cleaned my CTC-7 Sanford mask assembly! After getting it back together, I said to myself "well, that ought to be good for the rest of my lifetime!" So far it's the oldest color set I've ever owned or worked on!

Those safety glass trims were a bugger that year and in '59. There is probably an insufficient tutorial on how to finagle the ELL-trim and slider-thingys in the CTC7service manual.

I have two BW sets of this era and now I know how to clean the CRT, from the back after a total teardown, thanks for the tip, cap'n:D

If it's like the trim on my 10 it was hell to get off and on without bending anything.

If it's like the trim on my 10 it was hell to get off and on without bending anything.


too bad you're so far away, I have a CTC7 "Anderson" in a horrible cabinet.

So the VERY DAY I get done fitting a BPC into the cabinet, look what I come in to. Yep, unreal! A CTC-7 chassis with knobs!!!

Welp, looks like the BPC is gonna get tossed in the garbage and we begin fitting the REAL guts in :D . I'm still missing a convergence board and yoke, but I do have a line on a possible picture tube. Till then I may just stick a dud AXP in the hole.

Only problem is that this chassis isn't from a Pensbury, and it doesn't have a dial indicator. Can that be fitted to this chassis, or do I need a new tuner?