Garage Sale Find - RCA CTC-5
 

I found this set this morning at a garage sale just down the block from my house. It looks to be well kept, the cabinet look almost new. I had to go home to get a cart to pick it up, and the woman at the sale went inside and found the original booklet for it.

I don't have a color CRT tester right now, so I'm not sure of the CRT condition. I was told it hadn't been used in many years.

I am in the process of moving all my stuff to a new house, so I don't have much time to look into the set in more detail right now. I will install it in my living room as a "static display", and try to get it going over the winter.

I was doing a bit of reading, and it appears the "Super" chassis doesn't produce a very good color picture? I will have to see what the set can do.


The sale also had a nice Zenith Porthole set for sale.

wow, what a find, it looks great, the yoke cover looks like new so prob stored in a air conditioned enviroment.

I have that same exact model. It's a Super. Nice to get the owners manual. Would there be a way to get a copy?

Ahh HATE Yew !-Yosemite Sam, Esq.... Seriously, that's an incredible score ! So glad it went to "One of Us", instead of the landfill or a gotdang fishtanker...

Wow, that's a "Super" nice score! Why can't I ever find a gem like that in a yard sale around here? All I ever see is baby junk and old George Forman grills.

Great, great find at a yardie! The only RCA sets I ever see at one of those sales is a made in Taiwan special:D
Enjoy

QUOTE:
"I was doing a bit of reading, and it appears the "Super" chassis doesn't produce a very good color picture? I will have to see what the set can do."

Zenith,

Great find.
I've owned both the "Super" & "Deluxe" CTC-5 sets. Both if properly restored & set up will produce a fine color picture. Hopefully the CRT is in good shape.

-Steve D.

Wow. Amazing find. Good to see that they are still some out there to be discovered.

Must be a day to find old color tv sets. You found a 5 today---I got this porta-color at a thrift...BOTH will now NOT end up in a packer truck--and in ALL likelyhood--WOULD have , had we not intervened...

Absotively !

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wow wow wow , thats incredible to find at a yard sale . thats what drives me to stop and look at yards sale just on a slim chance someone has a find like that.

Ooooh....me likey! Excellent score. I'm always glad when one of us picks up a set like this. You just never know what's lurking out there waiting to be found.

This proves once again that there are still some great sets out in the wild. I still find one once in a while.

I STILL think the Nashville area might yield up a few "Ancient" color sets-Maybe even a CT-100...Why ? Well, Nashville was/is "Music City" USA, moreso back in the Fifties than today. There was a lot of wealth there, lots of "Industry" types, people who would want to have the Latest & the Greatest.