ctc-16xe All hope not lost

[Electronic M]

So your folks bought it off the World's fair booth when it closed, or did you just see one 'just like it' there?

I've probably re-soldered the IF lead coax 5+ times on my Silvertone CTC-15 clone....Until a few months back I could not find the service mount for the tuner sub chassis, some of the leads to it are kinda short, and it took me a while to figure out practical cable strain reliefs for it.

Sh!t happens sometimes.....On that set I once got over zealous pulling the chassis and yanked the CRT socket....Some leads ripped out, some tubes got knocked out, and the chroma osc coil got ripped off it's base. Some cussing and a deep breath later and I had a plan to fix it which worked.