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Originally Posted by radiotvnut
You bought what looks to be an RCA CTC25 chassis color TV from around '67. The TV will be mostly tube. The stereo portion will be solid state.
IMHO, this chassis was better than later RCA tube sets such as the CTC38. The main problems these gave were bad 6GH8A tubes, poor solder connections (especially on the tube sockets and PC board ground tabs, and bad flyback transformers. Unfortunately, RCA tube color TV's from this era liked to eat flyback transformers.
It looks like the CRT is cataract free and it could possibly be a replacement tube. When working right, it will have a good picture.
As far as the stereo, expect to replace all of the electrolytic capacitors. I've fixed a few RCA stereo's for customers in recent years and they all needed a recap in order to work right. These stereo's sound good once fixed.
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Per your comments that people always lie about if a set works or not, just got this from the seller today
""cheched tvg this morning. tv does go on fuzzy and sporadic. radio doesnt work. phonograph looks to be trying to go on. let me know if you are still coming on monday. thanks carly"
As opposed to the ad which says " Radio, record player and tv all turn on and appear to work so it would have to be an as is sale."
He did tell me he would refund my money and i can have it for free. but still??