Rca ctc-125/xl-100

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Originally Posted by zeno

Oops forgot about the Zener. Unfortunately the 3 sams for CTC125
I dont have. No training manual either.
The coil I was thinking of fed the MSC & was for tuning voltage
IIRC. Not sure if these had it but I think it was CTC120's
had a bunch go cold.
Worth some time, twas a good set & dont take up much room
or eat to much.

73 Zeno

Zeno,

I too am blind, not having the Sams either. I do have my late fathers' notes from 44+ years of servicing sets. He documented alot - some of it is almost indecipherable without either the set or Sams. He references stuff like "on the board, near the fly, but behind the horiz tranny sink" and "like some of the small neck XLs, but without the Knight neck" - the last is a reference to a set he accidentally necked while working on it for another shop, Knight TV. He ate a 175 dollar bonded yoke CRT, all to help a friend. Dad had a whole second language for his beloved TVs..

I've got his griplet maps for GE EC/AA/AB/AC sets - now there is a well-worn page. We were lucky to have GE sets saturated in this area in the 80s, so he stayed busy with the GE sets until the white flyback NAP sets and the CTC175-185 tuner ground sets became the moneymakers. Funny how the TV business went in waves - first it was the RCA 6GH8/5GH8 sets, then the early XLs, then the early System 3s, then the Colortrak start-up woes, then the GE griplet sets, and on and on. He finished out his years in business working the RCA CTC203 and M134 chassis, and the ever-present sets with the bad jungle or Vertical output ICs. Each year or so he entered a new "era" of sets.

Cheers,