Happy 4th of July! CTC-16XL!
 

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:D

Nice!

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Looking good. My first color set purchased new in 1966. Very similar.

It’s a tad early, but it’s a nice picture.

Not really! :D

Have already been seeing Independence Day themed advertisements on the main networks for some time now! :P

And I'm sure that the Halloween ones will start mid Aug!

It'd kinda be funny if someone worked out the forward march of companies rolling out holiday themed stuff and extrapolated what year we will start celebrating Christmas exactly a year early. :D :tongue:

Christmas stuff will be in stores and the commercials on TV at the stroke of midnight on 10/31 as always! :D

That set looks fantastic.
Nice to see these things being preserved. From a BETTER TIME!

Right at the end of the movie Santa VS Satan. :D

Very nice ! Thank You Old TV Nut, and Happy 4th to you too :thmbsp:

Happy Independence Day Weekend to everyone!
Have fun and be healthy.
God Bless the USA

Out of curiosity, what was the difference between the CTC-16 and the CTC-16XL? I’ve heard both are basically the best of the roundies made by RCA, but are the two chassis that different?

I know they used different flybacks, same connections, just different construction. Also, the "X" versions used a 6JC6 for the 3rd If and burst amp tubes in place of the 6EH7 and 6EW6 in the earlier chassis.