Huge RCA find plus some questions

[jstout66]

Chad, Great finds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's my opinions on the flybacks (for what it's worth). In the late 70's and early 80's when I worked for my Uncle in his repair shop, RCA Flyback jobs kept us very busy. It seemed like they lasted about 8-10 years. It was also something that seemed to keep us busy in the summer. It is well known that RCA flybacks used a terrible wax coating on their flybacks. They never changed their design either. So you had that crappy flyback to deal with thru the CTC-40. I noticed on those housecall jobs that a majority of those sets were in homes with NO air-conditioning. So it would appear that the heat and humidity did them in. So..... on the sets you have with good flybacks you should be fine if you run them in an airconditioned environment. I wouldn't think you'll be using any as daily watchers like these sets were (15+ hours a day was not uncommon) so you should still be able to get plenty of life out of your working sets. As for getting replacement flybacks, I would get what you can NOW from Moyers. People seem to know about them now and have been buying them up. I just call them up on the 800# (1-800-577-6001) and have delt with Bill Moyer in the past. It helps if you have the RCA part number or the Thordarson number. If you have any of those part numbers available, you can pm me as well, as I have a source in Iowa that I can get parts from. When my Uncle did the "flyback jobs" he would replace with a Thordarson flyback and would replace the 5 tubes. When a flyback burns up it usually takes out the 6JE6, 6DW4, and 6BK4. He would also change the 3A3 and the 2AV2 as well. Back then it usually ran about $149.00 total. As for re-coating a flyback.... that I'm not sure of. We would never consider that "back in the day" due to safety reasons and also replacement parts were readily available. Anyway... good luck with your sets and feel free to contact me if you need help in finding any parts.