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12-08-2007, 09:53 PM
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Looks alot better now!
Turns out that the service switch was intermittent, not dirty but actually losing conection to the board! Never saw that before. Maybe it got bumped during a move once? Don't think I did it, because I was ultra-careful with it.
So the switch was actually adding green intermittently when I touched it. I blew out a lot of dust and resoldered it down good  The grayscale is amazing now, really low hours on this tube. It amazes me because first of all, RCA's crts from this time weren't notorious for reliability, let alone after 27 years. Also, the rest of the set appears very well-used, lots of dust, with slight brown-darkening around the chroma-out's and flyback. Just to be sure, I redid the soldering around them too. You guys are very correct that this was a good set, I am impressed with the heatsink on the H-out, it looks like a vintage stereo amplifier output! So far it has been a great daily bedroom set, I have only turned it off when I was out of the house, and it truly has a stellar picture. 
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01-16-2008, 08:11 PM
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Thought I'd add a followup
In the past month with the ctc97, I resoldered the red circuit on the kine driver board. Also was having a severe blooming issue with moderate contrast levels so I replaced 2 small caps in the power supply. Only thing wrong with this tv is that the horizontal is slightly off center.
Odd part, though, is that the service sticker points to horiz positioning stakes, but they appear to be missing from this set! Anyone remember the '97? I mean, I had the thing totally apart and for the life of me could not find the positioning pots, stakes, or anything else! Either way heres a few shots of the old workhorse. Last edited by zenith2134; 03-25-2009 at 04:18 PM.
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01-17-2008, 12:10 AM
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 I had a CTC101 back in the 80's. Looks quite similar to your 97. It had a comb filter and an IR remote control. It also had fake stereo sound. And also had the notorious flyback transformer that would fail and take out the horizontal transistor with it. Seems that there were only 3 high voltage rectifier diodes inside the flyback, instead of the 6 orginally designed. It was a warrenty nightmare for RCA back then. Mine worked for about ten years until the flyback blew, then it got tossed. It was a nice set, be nice to find one.
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01-17-2008, 01:49 PM
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Man, thats a cool looking set. So far i've only used ctc-89, ctc-97 and ctc117's from this time. I found them all, and all worked with minor issues. Cool picture, thanks
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