CTC-5 64th Happy Halloween - 2021

[Electronic M]

Well I'm having a CTC16 Halloween. For a set that has all 60s caps in it I'm impressed that its ran since 2PM without failing. If someone shows up before I haul it inside they can have it for $10.


Also my Chancellor is working in color in time for Halloween.


Planning to run my CTC-5 later tonight.

[Yamamaya42]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Well I'm having a CTC16 Halloween. For a set that has all 60s caps in it I'm impressed that its ran since 2PM without failing. If someone shows up before I haul it inside they can have it for $10.


Also my Chancellor is working in color in time for Halloween.


Planning to run my CTC-5 later tonight.

why is that screen so shiny and reflective looking, when the safety glass has a softer look to it normally? :O

[Electronic M]

The CTC16? (The short answer is an unfrosted safety glass was installed.)

Well it's CRT (a colorama rebuilt) ended up in the Zenith Chancellor mid-last-week.
Since I bought that CTC16 in severely derrilict condition dirt cheap as a CRT donor I decided not to give it any new/valuable parts. The only reason the cabinet isn't junked is that for shits'n'giggles I variaced it with a weak CRT and it worked great (besides the color which needed a crystal and the X demod tube). The Packard Bell CRT (my worst 21FBP that can work on a brightener) I threw in to make it a complete set to sell, didn't have a safety glass so I grabbed the least terrible of 3 ' too-scratched-to-use' safety glasses (this one isn't frosted and came off a mystery rebuilt tube out of a repair shop basement), and thus I shangoed together a POS working CTC16...

I already own a minty CTC16 Stockholm combo so this POS metal table set means nothing to me...I mean if one side wasn't all but rusted off the, bottom and the rest scratched, dented and covered in enough presumably nicotine glaze that it makes chrome knobs look like aged bronze I might have wanted to keep it and make it nice but this just isn't good enough to be worth that.

Somehow it survived 8 straight hours running today so the chassis is somehow doing amazing for being all 1964 parts.

[Yamamaya42]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

The CTC16? (The short answer is an unfrosted safety glass was installed.)

Well it's CRT (a colorama rebuilt) ended up in the Zenith Chancellor mid-last-week.
Since I bought that CTC16 in severely derrilict condition dirt cheap as a CRT donor I decided not to give it any new/valuable parts. The only reason the cabinet isn't junked is that for shits'n'giggles I variaced it with a weak CRT and it worked great (besides the color which needed a crystal and the X demod tube). The Packard Bell CRT (my worst 21FBP that can work on a brightener) I threw in to make it a complete set to sell, didn't have a safety glass so I grabbed the least terrible of 3 ' too-scratched-to-use' safety glasses (this one isn't frosted and came off a mystery rebuilt tube out of a repair shop basement), and thus I shangoed together a POS working CTC16...

I already own a minty CTC16 Stockholm combo so this POS metal table set means nothing to me...I mean if one side wasn't all but rusted off the, bottom and the rest scratched, dented and covered in enough presumably nicotine glaze that it makes chrome knobs look like aged bronze I might have wanted to keep it and make it nice but this just isn't good enough to be worth that.

Somehow it survived 8 straight hours running today so the chassis is somehow doing amazing for being all 1964 parts.

If you were not so darn far away, I'd take it for $10, Just to have a 3rd color roundie, even if it it junk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dGh7p1tZmk

Hehe, " shangoed " so he's the new rube goldberg of the vintage age? :p

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

If you were not so darn far away, I'd take it for $10, Just to have a 3rd color roundie, even if it it junk!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dGh7p1tZmk

Hehe, " shangoed " so he's the new rube goldberg of the vintage age? :p

There's always U-ship.

The chassis seems to be sound. The CRT and cabinet are basically junk. I mean if you were someone into doing auto body you could bend cut and weld in a patch in an afternoon, pound out the dent and touch up the paint. I've done similar on cars but my sheet metal welding equipment/skills aren't up to snuff yet.

What sucks is I gutted and sold a pristine early control panel CTC16 cabinet to repuosers this summer because it's flyback was shot and I needed it's CRT (which spontaneously cracked and went to air 1 hour of use later) for other set.
Had I known I was going to buy this I'd have used it's chassis to make that other CTC-16 console work.

Shango tends to resurrect stuff with minimal new parts in ways that, while entertaining, are usually too half-assed for anything that an owner genuinely cares about...Which is perfect for me on a set like this.
What's probably going to happen is around Wednesday when nobody has bought it I'll list it on my local marketplace for repurposing, stick my down to air CRT in, pull the chassis, glue the knobs on the cabinet and keep the chassis and back....And if that don't sell the cabinet goes to the metal recycling and maybe I crunch the dud jug.

The chassis is good enough to be a spare and or parts donor for my remote CTC16 Stockholm.