CTC-7 is coming MY way!

[holmesuser01]

More news: Got the chassis out. It has the shield over the color circuitry, but all but 2 of the screws holding it are gone. The 3.58 crystal has a 1-68 date on it. (My CTC-10 has its original glass enclosed crystal.)

Grounds have been touched before, as shown by the melted wires around some of them. I've temporarily fixed the broken grounds on the hz osc board. One wire that runs by a ground point at the video board was actually making contact on the ground stake. I got continuity from the ground to the place where the wire connects in the chroma. Cleaned it up and dressed it away from the stake, and now it's reading almost infinity. I have a feeling that this could make a change in what I see on the screen.

Would you guys suggest that I turn the chassis tubes down and then re-solder ALL of the grounds? Some look perfect, but I do know that they had issues with intermittent connections on these. I'm applying pressure to the PC board while the solder cools. I've seen cases of these sets where a repair involved running new ground wires from the grommets to an actual chassis ground point. I thought this looked really crappy.

I've lubed the UHF tuner gears, and am warming everything up with a small heat lamp to help flow the lube. I'll let it sit for a few hours cooking.

Also evidence of long-dead roaches. I'll get it back outside and blow it out.

There's been work done on this... the video board, and the hz osc board have had parts tacked to the old part wires coming thru the PCB. I dont like this, but for now, I'll leave it alone.