[Charlie]

It's pretty common that older sets with surge supression resistors (or thermistors) are found to have the component burned out, broken, or bypassed. This CTC9 was no exception. Someone had twisted the leads together like twisting the tie on a loaf of bread. I'm pretty sure I'm stressing those filters everytime I turn the set on.

I'm assuming that the auto-degaussing circuit in the newer sets also serves as surge supressor for the B+.

With that being said, would it be acceptable to use a degaussing resistor in a CTC9 for the B+ surge supressor? I have a small handfull of these resistors for the degauss circuit... was thinking about plugging one of those in on my 9.