CTC 10 & 11 up and running

[Tom S]

Yes I believe it was an E41 chassis in that for the year. Not the highest end chassis but with the Darklite 50 CRT it sure looked great. I think it was later than the Superset. Perry Como used to be the pitchman for Sylvania back in those days. You guys remember the ad that they used "What about Sony"?

[DavGoodlin]

The photo of the bench shows what appears to be a burglar alarm or emergency light in the background

[Tom S]

Your right on the first guess. Burgler alarm. Cheap but scared the hell out of anyone who tripped it.

[Tom S]

Well the weekend is here and a warm week coming up. Might to the sun thing to my CTC 11 and get that faceplate off the tube. I hope it works.

[DaveWM]

go slowly, apply even pressure, not a lot, all around the perimeter, cool slowly (do not use a wet rag to clean off the hot face).

[mstaton]

Let it bake in the sun for a couple of hours in a round can with a blanket around the rim and something heavy in the bottom. You can leave the Yoke, convergence coil and the purity rings on unless you need to do the purity and convergence anyway. Also a good time to clean all the cigarette juice off when everything is removed. Peel the tape off the edge and carefully scrape out some of the edge of the PVA. DONT use metal objects at all. Use a plastic knife or such. Once fully warm, use a heat gun starting where the delamination starts toward the inside. you will see the "fingers" starting to crawl toward the center. Once the center is done, you should be able to remove it pretty easily. You can use some small wedges like chopsticks or such but I never had any issue without them. Like DaveWM said, DO NOT try to clean it until it's cool. Don't be in any rush. You can reattach any way you like. I use thin weatherstrip foam(the black stuff) around the whole outer edge and seal it with clear packing tape along the same edge as the original tape. It's much easier than using a few pieces of double sided tape and gives more support and is much more forgiving to mistakes and easier to correct. Just my 2 centavos.

[Reece]

And please wear goggles, heavy gloves, long pants, and a heavy long sleeve shirt or two. Can't be too careful in case things went blooey.

[DaveWM]

I use wood clothspins for wedges, buy them by the bag full at a grocery store, take the two parts apart, they have a nice wedge shape built in. tap them in around the perm (lightly) making sure they make full contact (avoid pressure points on the edge of the glass). Let the pressure and the heat from the sun do the work. walk away from it after you have it all setup with wood wedges in place, come back and check on it in 30 min. Make sure you stand (upside down garbage can) is stout enough to handle the weight, do all the work over soft ground like grass in case anything goes wrong, you dont want the tube or the lens to fall and shatter on a hard surface. After 30 min of lite pressure and heat from the sun, go around the wedges and LIGHTLY tap them in again. You can tell by the sound if they are tight. Walk away again for another 30 min. Repeat this process, it may take 30min or 3 hrs, all depends on the temp and the condition of the PVA. Note all this apples to the hard RCA type pva, the green goo on zenith tubes is a completly different animal.

[ChrisW6ATV]

When I did the one CRT I have done so far, I put it in the sun face down for a while first to get its back section already warm before I put it in a trash can face up for the heat gun treatment.