RCA CTC5 Special advice

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Zsuttle, I soaked mine overnight YMMV.
I'd go back to Squirrel Boys suggestion.

Originally Posted by Yamamaya42

Then waited for your heart to slow back down to below 200 BPM, and your blood pressure to drop back out of the danger zone?

I actually wasn't that wound up...IIRC I had a spare 21AXP22 then, I knew the tube I had was toast if I did nothing, so I had nothing to loose and everything to gain, I had done a similar thing with a monochrome tube before I knew how to solder at my current level and cracked it with heat so I had a feel for max dwell time on cold glass. I had those wire stubs shiny ready for solder, warmed the glass to improve tolerance to solder temp and besides the actual soldering (which I did with calm sharp focus) I did everything slow and deliberately. I won't say I wasn't a bit tense but I was relatively calm.