[bozey45]

In about 1989 I got my CTC-5 from a TV shop in tampa from an ad I ran in the paper for early color sets. I did a partial restoration on the set back then and was unable to continue for various reasons so it's still sitting in the garage in its 1989-90 condition. Being employed at BIG13 in Tampa an engineer there knew of my interest in this type of stuff so he gave me a CTC-11 he had at his house that was the former lobby set at Big13. I replaced the 21FJP22 right away because of a cataract and tried to turn on the set for a short time now and then, a beautiful color picture, so it only has probably 2 hours or so on the tube even now because shortly before moving to my current house in 2004 I turned on the set to a nice loss of vertical output. Have had no time to get to that set since then so it's keeping the CTC5 company in the garage. The same engineer gave me a plethera of old repair manuals from the early to mid 1950's that he had in his TV shop up north and I still have all that stuff also. One of these days I'll get to the 5 and 11 and at least get the 11 going.