RCA G-2000 Startup

[RCAkid]

A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to bring home a "new" G-2000. This set had no previous owner. When it was brand new, it was floor demo for a TV shop in Wisconsin that closed up. The set has all its hang tags, manuals, warranty cards, name plate sheet and even the remote is still wrapped in its felt bag attached to the back of the set. The cabinet has only one ding in it on the off white portion. The chassis seems to have little time on it as, except for a very fine layer of plain old dust, it is in pristine condition. Still shiny after all these years.

The set has been in regulated storage for nearly 30 years and was powered up about 3 years ago. At that time, I was informed, it had a good picture but it was not a full raster suggesting a failure or bad module connection in the vertical circuit.

While this chassis, albeit transistorized, is very similar in layout to a CTC-21 or 38, it is not a tube set and I am uncertain about powering it up with a variac. I am not certain if this set has a switching supply or some hybrid form of one since the tuner, etc is electronic. I know with the old Zenith space command 300/400 sets, there was simply a separate receiver that operated independantly of the main chassis.

I know there are a few of you who have worked on these sets in the past and I was wondering if you had a good procedure for bringing this set up for the first time. I just want to be very careful with this set so I can see where I am before I dive into it and start cleaning module contacts, recapping, etc.

Thanks in advance!