hey, what is this?

[sampson159]

looking at a much bigger image,it appears to be a ctc 38-40 from the very late 60s.25v crt and this set looks great.a keeper and a great find!

[Zenith26kc20]

Maggie's could put up a fight but my T-933 is a great performer! That does look like a RCA CTC38. If I can remember a long time ago, we had a customer with one and it had a bizarre remote control setup. It was HEAVY! RCA and Zenith must have disliked technicians as their combo sets were outrageously heavy!

[BigDavesTV]

Definately a beautiful RCA Combination Set! My vote is about a CTC-38 Chassis, tubes, the Radio / Stereo portion will be Solid-State, looks very well cared for, cost a lot when new, hope you score it! Best wishes!

[holmesuser01]

Please let us know what it is when you get it home. I used to work on RCA'a at my business!

As for Magnavox, my cousin had a 1968 Maggie color console that, other than my replacing the HV rectifier once in 1994, never had any service done at any time. It was still running in 2003, when he moved, and gave it away, rather than move with it. I would have taken it, if I had known this...

[jstout66]

NICE set! I am going to guess it's a CTC-28. From the pix, it looks like it has the large hinged door that opens to get to the consumer controls. (which I think was a CTC-28 thing, as that's the only chassis I've seen that has it) If it has the flip up door, CTC-31or CTC-38, From the "snow" pix, it looks like it has a STRONG tube with great grayscale.

[andy]

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[technicolor]

Originally Posted by andy

I vote early CTC40. The channel knobs look like the ones on a CTC40, and I know for a fact that they early CTC40 had that control layout and were labeled "New Vista Color". The tilt out control panel didn't appear until the second year for the CTC40. It could be a CTC38, but based on the fact that it appears to be working well, I'd lean towards solid state.

give that man a cigar, it's a ctc40

[Einar72]

I had one of these in a "Danish modern" cabinet. I got it home from the thrift store in 1982, and saw it only had a picture right after the power was turned OFF (turned out to be a green solder joint where a power resistor hooked to a tie point. I don't remember any transistors on the chassis. Within a year it fried something in the HV section and was tossed. It's definitely not a CTC-38, that was my parents' first set, it had a very different bezel and was a hybrid.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Einar72

I had one of these in a "Danish modern" cabinet. I got it home from the thrift store in 1982, and saw it only had a picture right after the power was turned OFF (turned out to be a green solder joint where a power resistor hooked to a tie point. I don't remember any transistors on the chassis. Within a year it fried something in the HV section and was tossed. It's definitely not a CTC-38, that was my parents' first set, it had a very different bezel and was a hybrid.

I had that problem on a roundy. The screen voltage was derived from the boost diode which was open.

[beetleham02]

it is a RA TC28 HEC

[Tony V]

I have the same set-up in a different cabinet. Although i need a new tv chassis for mine, the stereo is a good performer and has one of the hottest fm tuners i've ever owned. You got a good one there buddy!