The Ebay CTC-7 is home!

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So I hopped in the Wagoneer this morning for the 4 hour round trip to San Jose to pick up the CTC7. The TV set in brief terms? Exceeds expectations.

Given that there were no pictures of the set operating in the auction; coupled with the fact that the seller said that he "would rather not plug it in" or something to that effect made me expect the worst but I figured since these are almost always a gamble anyway I'd take my chances.

Following up with the seller after the auction he stated that he himself had recapped 'most' of the chassis about 7 years ago, and that the CRT had a weak green gun in it, even though the tube is a Colorama replacement from '72. He included a nice history of service tags along with the TV, as well as a photocopied Photofact and a Sencore Color bar generator with an interesting built-in mirror claiming that the set would need a convergence alignment.

Interestingly, the seller said that he had purchased a NOS flyback for this set which he ended up selling to Eric H. which really just made me suspect that the HV in this set was going to have a problem.

Nope. No problems. Convergence fine. Green gun WAS weak, but came up OK after playing for about 5 minutes. Stunning. Here are some shots of Beetlejuice... this movie is such a throwback to the 50s even for it's time...

Only downside... top has some paint flaking and a small dent... some abrasion on the left side that might clean up with a buff... don't hear me complaining.