To be totally honest, I dunno what to do with it just yet, but all I know is that I wasn't about to leave it where it was.
Back in about November, our good member jshorva65 passed along some info about a CT100 that he found out about in the Ashtabula Ohio area. I called the owner, and he said that it wasn't exactly for sale at the moment, that he had just entered into a conversation with him about it, and that if he did decide to sell it, which he thought he would, he'd call me.
Called him once again maybe April, and left an answering machine message with my contact info.
Out of the clear blue I get a phone call from the man on Wednesday this week, asking me if I'd like to buy it as it took him about two weeks to get at it in his garage where it was stored. I agreed to meet up with him this morning early as I didn't want this to pass by! Left bright and early this morning before dawn on the ~3-4 hour drive.
When I got there, the set was sitting in his driveway. It had just rained and the set was a little wet, uncovered. I'm going to describe what I saw as best I can. Take a 10 wheel tandem dump truck full of televisions dating from 1983-1995, and dump them in a driveway. Then proceed to stack the unbroken ones outside in the weather, inside in the sunporch, and fill the 2 car garage so you can't open the doors. Oh yeah, and put the busted parts in piles in the yard and driveway. I was stepping over wet broken VCRs to enter his house. There was a huge pile of picture tubes and projection set parts in the corner by the back door.
Plus, he's got more in a storage unit.
He told me about his basement packed with 1940s and 1950s black and white, but it wasn't accessible at the moment
He did show me the back of a CTC5 that he'd think about selling, and told me that he has 2 CTC7s in his storage place. He's going to keep my number and call me when he digs them out if he decides to sell them. At the rate he has to go through them, it will be around the same time I pay off my house!
Wherever this CT's been, it's led a hard life. I just couldn't let it sit there any more. Paid a pretty high price for it considering condition, but ya do what ya have to do.