NICE RCA CTC-40 combo!! - Videokarma.org TV - Video

rca2000 · #1 06-16-2010, 01:03 PM

I would LOVE to have this.....

BUT...it is in texas!! I CANNOT remotely justify going that far for ANY tv--and my old van may not really be up to a 1000+ trip EACH way--and I KNOW my wallet is not!!

but still...I would like to have it. It is a CTC-40 with a stereo, with the rare ""200 watt" RCA RS-246 SS amp, ONLY made for ONE year--1970..

Perhaps..someone could 'give it a hitch-hike, some of the wayt up here?? Maybe within a couple of states or so??
If not...hopefully one of us will end up with it...NOT TOO MANY of these left!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tab%3DWatching

RCAkid · #2 06-16-2010, 01:12 PM

Actually will be passing through Arlington, TX on Sunday. I am a going for it.

Now that I got my health back, I am back on the collecting trail. Missed out on a 16 chassis because of illness....it is amazing how little stuff matters when severely ill.

One thing is for sure, if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

A little OT, but this made me start to think about what to do with my collection when my time comes. While hopefully not for long time but this really made me aware of things and the need to plan. Gotta make sure that the collection goes to folks who will take care of the pieces that I have hunted down and worked so hard to collect. Just have to figure out how that would happen.

JB5pro · #3 06-16-2010, 01:18 PM

I will see if I can get it. I doubt it since I am really busy and budgeted at the moment. If someone else needs help with it I can likely do so. It it is the exact cabinet I have but mine has more orange in the speaker grill fabric and mine has the CTC 54. My turntable is the slightly more modern version of that one that also does not have the Studio Strobe adjustment which is frustrating to me since it plays records too fast. I guess '68 or '69 was last year for Studio Strobe? Then RCA decided they could make more profit at customer's expense? Seems like there is no excuse to take the speed adjustent off the top model. Mine is from '72 which is the last year for that cabinet. It has a slightly cheaper version of that stereo control panel without those switching buttons and one of the round knobs takes thier place but I think it is also rated at 200 watts. It sure sounds like it. I have had that system full blast without distortion many times. I love the sound. Mine has remote control. I would expect this one to be remote but apparently not.

TV Engineer · #4 06-17-2010, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by JB5pro

I will see if I can get it. I doubt it since I am really busy and budgeted at the moment. If someone else needs help with it I can likely do so. It it is the exact cabinet I have but mine has more orange in the speaker grill fabric and mine has the CTC 54. My turntable is the slightly more modern version of that one that also does not have the Studio Strobe adjustment which is frustrating to me since it plays records too fast. I guess '68 or '69 was last year for Studio Strobe? Then RCA decided they could make more profit at customer's expense? Seems like there is no excuse to take the speed adjustent off the top model. Mine is from '72 which is the last year for that cabinet. It has a slightly cheaper version of that stereo control panel without those switching buttons and one of the round knobs takes thier place but I think it is also rated at 200 watts. It sure sounds like it. I have had that system full blast without distortion many times. I love the sound. Mine has remote control. I would expect this one to be remote but apparently not.

A strobe and fine speed adjustment are not necessary on a record changer equipped with a synchronous motor, as this one is according to the catalog page posted elsewhere in this thread.

A synchronous motor will always run at synchronous speed according to line FREQUENCY. Line voltage will have no affect on it.

If a changer equipped with a synchronous motor runs too fast, it needs a new idler wheel.

JB5pro · #5 06-19-2010, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by TV Engineer

A strobe and fine speed adjustment are not necessary on a record changer equipped with a synchronous motor, as this one is according to the catalog page posted elsewhere in this thread.

A synchronous motor will always run at synchronous speed according to line FREQUENCY. Line voltage will have no affect on it.

If a changer equipped with a synchronous motor runs too fast, it needs a new idler wheel.

Thank you very much for that. I think I should have known that but figured the previous RCA models with Studio Strobe had the same motor with a voltage changing cirsuit.

To all the old fogey, grudge holding over nothing, selfish RCA men who obviously take a twisted pleasure in keeping RCA's info in dealing with this problem from everybody just because you are jealous of me personally... go jump in a lake. Seeems like that should cool you off. To bad you will never be really cool

. Why did so many of the cool personalities from the '50's, '60's & '70's become such bitter old sticks in the mud? Is it from breathing too much solder smoke or just old fashioned jealousy?

AUdubon5425 · #6 06-16-2010, 01:26 PM

Wow, three bidders in the mix. Even if it weren't ten hours away I don't think that would fit in my Voyager van. Good luck RCAkid - hope you get her!

kc8adu · #7 06-17-2010, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

I don't think that would fit in my Voyager van.

you got it all wrong!
you put the minivan inside the set!

andy · #8 06-16-2010, 02:06 PM

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rca2000 · #9 06-16-2010, 04:59 PM

At least it will not not likely end in a compactor truck and then a dump....crushed beyond all recogntion. As long as ONE of US gets it....that is fine.

RCAkid · #10 06-16-2010, 06:11 PM

Amen Brotha!

andy · #11 06-16-2010, 07:04 PM

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marty59 · #12 06-16-2010, 08:05 PM

Since I'm right here in Arlington, if any of you are the winning bidder and need some local help let me know.

I could short term store it but I'd hate to figure out how many people I'd need to move it and load into a pick-up.

And no, I don't know who's selling it either!

Just PM me!

freakaftr8 · #13 06-17-2010, 01:52 AM

Lol I love it! Yes those sets are huge! I have a CTC-40 set that was cut out of a combo unit that looked like that one. Sure wish I could find a donor cabinet for it. I got the set playing very nice and the hi lite CRT is top notch and has great emmission.

kx250rider · #14 06-17-2010, 10:50 AM

If I were in town, I'd go get it. That's only about 20 minutes from our Plano house, but I'm in CA right now. UGLY gothic cabinet, but CTC-40s are getting more & more rare.

Charles

Jeffhs · #15 06-17-2010, 01:42 PM

That CTC-40 is a very nice-looking TV from the front (cabinet), but does it work? I have an RCA 1967 television brochure I downloaded from Mediafire.com a few weeks ago; this set is featured in it, on the first page past the cover, IIRC. I'd love to have a set like this, as I like wood furniture of any kind (don't care for the modern resin-plastic stuff in the discount houses nowadays), but I just don't have the room for anything that big in my small apartment. As long as I live here (been here over ten years and I intend to stay), however, the closest I'll ever come to having a wood console TV again (after my 23" 1963 Zenith I had in suburban Cleveland in the late 1960s) is having my RCA CTC185 19" table set on a medium oak utility cart, with my VCR and DVD player on the shelves below. Not a real console, but when you're cramped for space you make do with what you have. I wanted to use a TV cabinet I'd had my Zenith Sentry 2 and VCR in at my previous residence, but the RCA set wouldn't fit in the TV opening below the VCR shelf.

So, I did the next best thing, and put my video gear on the utility cart I mentioned. Since the cart is real wood finished in medium oak, it even makes my gray-black plastic cabinet RCA CTC185 (plus my VCR and DVD, which are also in nondescript plastic cabinets) look good, IMHO.