It lives!
 

Greetings! My roundie lives on!

Yesterday, after an a couple months of careful work, gradual voltage, and crossed fingers, the CTC-11 ran producing a pretty decent picture! Months of work consisted of; replacement of all maroon-drops, orange drops, one bumble-bee, about 10 ‘out of tolerance’ resistors in the IF and sound circuits, used a forstner bit to drill out and re-stuff the electrolytics (that's some rude gunk), and about 5000 q-tips to detail clean the circuit boards and chassis – it lives. The CRT appears to have been re-built sometime in its life, but the rare-earth phosphor remains and without any work produces a respectable picture. Upon first application of power, it ran for about a minute and the dim picture faded to nothing. After replacing a “good” 12BY7 (video) I saw a stable and much brighter picture.

Still some homework to do before any time get’s logged: learning to adjust cathode current, HV, and all the usual purity & convergence crap! Thanks to all those who‘ve advised me along the way! Bill
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Ah HATE Yew...For 2 reasons-1) You have a Roundie, & 2) You know how to work on 'em & make it "Live" again-Something that is QUITE beyond my feeble mind...

Nice restoration! I like that style of cabnet, compact, real wood and in good shape.

Mike

Congradulations!

That set seems to have a very good picture.

Using a drill is not a good way to go on lytic rebuilding. A good way is to pry up the lip of the can, pry out the treminal wafers, and use a cork screw to pull the rest of the guts out. I know the last part sounds wierd, and takes a some arm strength to do, but it works quite well.

Nice set! Great work so far...It'll be a good performer when its all done :yes:
Cheers Glen

Nice work there, Bill. Makes me want to get my butt in gear and get mine going.

Could not help but notice a very attractive color RCA sign peeking around the left side of your 11. :)

Omedetou gozaimasu! CTC- jyu-ichi ga daisuki da yo! Kyabinetsuto ga utsukushii desu!
(Congratulations! I love that CTC 11! It has a beautiful cabinet!)


The 11 is on my must have list but haven't found a nice enough one for the price yet.


I know,I know, what the hell is with the Japanese. Gomennasai, (sorry) I'm just bored and wanted to use it. Bored is Taikutsu shiteimasu, BTW.... :3