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It is possible that it was repainted, there does appear to be two layers to the coating, but the cracks are through both layers. Perhaps second paint reacted with what was originally on it causing the cracking. Also maybe it just cracked over time taking the original coating with it. I do know that paint over plastic tends to do things like this, you see it on those urethane bumpers used on Corvettes in the 70s and other similar places. Although whatever the lower layer of coating is it is too thick to be any kind of ordinary paint, I'm not entirely sure what it is. The pedestal has no coating at all and appears to be some kind of white plastic, but looking on the inside of the set, the plastic used for that was not of a solid white color it is a bit see-through, so there must have been some coating on it originally. Either way, the plastic itself is not damaged, so I could just sand all this stuff off and repaint it.
""When you lose picture do you still have high-voltage and sound or is the set shutting down completely?""
Actually, it does both. When it first went on it was with sound and HV and no picture. Eventually the picture came up (low vert. size and all blue), messing with the chrmatic control fixed the all blue, then the TV shut itself completely off. Then I only got it to come on two more times, both times as soon as any picture came up, it shut off completely. Now it won't go on at all.
Thanks for the advice, this set does look like it has been sitting for a long time. Strangely, I got mixed stories about the history of the set. I talked to a woman on the phone who said it was her mother's, then to a man when I went to get it who said it was left behind in their house when they bought it. It will probably be a month or two before I get seriously into it though, I want to fix up my CT 15 first. I've been getting TVs at a faster rate than I can fix them.
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