RCA CTC16 Color Roundy TV Color Demodulation and Caps

[@jamesplotkin4674]

Your commentary never gets old. I love these videos. Death caps? Bring them!

[@MikeDeJager-ex4wm]

Color Chrystal? Run to your local Radio Shack. I remember them in the catalog. Great video, no matter what the camera was set at. Thanks for posting.

[@NoPegs]

WoopWoop! Back on the vintage color sets! Excellent. =3

[@TheDevice9]

It's fascinating watching you diagnose a problem, whether it's a TV or a car, it's more entertaining than an episode of 'House'. It's real TV drama not fake TV drama.

[@LiquidRadio]

Philosophical quote of the day: “It shouldn’t be airplane in the sky, airplane on the ground… It should be airplane all at once”.😄

[@MrMersh-ts7jl]

Maybe Boeing's tuning in right now!

[@tomcarlson3913]

I feel like there should be a 'more airplane!' joke like SNL's old "More Cowbell!"...

[@MrMersh-ts7jl]

@@tomcarlson3913 or just more callbacks to Airplane! In general

[@leroyjenkins09]

Skoiley sprinkler mcmono boiler

[@pikadroo]

Omg! I remember those placemats. My friend’s dad, when i was growing up was the town TV repair guy and he had those all over his benches at the shop. Wow… totally forgot about that!

[@directcurrent5751]

RCA Television Always leading the innovations and quashing competition curves. Consistently the cheapest approach available in the production of consumer goods.

[@scottbrady7499]

been looking at all the mid and late seventies Trinitron resurrection. more fraught with "mistakes," wrong turns and dead ends. all the modern ICs and crowding inside make for a frustrating narrative, but show what a methodical troubleshooter Shango is, flying by the seat of his pants and often taking a "shot in the dark." Always worth a look..

[@darikdatta]

Right on time! Coffee's hot and I am prepared to be reformed like a 80 year old wax capacitor.

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

Thats a polarising comment.

[@darikdatta]

@@WOFFY-qc9te don't be so negative

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

@@darikdatta 🤔

[@chromasonictv6369]

I worked on alot of those sets the 3.58 was very touchy on a weak signal but great job on that set congran

[@vcv6560]

Memories of that GE p780 where the PCB trace conductivity just evaporated with corrosion. Of course how many knew 65 years later this would be a hobby collecting hundreds to their 'home computer' on a Saturday morning. On the idea of warming up for stability the wave analyzer we used in communication lab (college, early 80s) an HP 302 and even while solid state, I thought it was tube wasn't ready to use until it had run 15 minutes.

[@joelbrown9780]

I worked in the parts department for an RCA distributor before GE purchased them. We obviously had tons of service literature and advertising from the past. I remember that RCA had circuitry that was copper, because it was a superior electrical conductor at the time. Probably mid 60's. Does anybody remember seeing those or servicing them?

[@JerryEricsson]

Funny some folks have strange ideas as to what they like. I once had a yard sale to get rid of some rather old laptops. I had OS's on them that were the same vintage as the machines, so if they had 486 processors, then Windows 95 and so on. So this guy comes up, he lived down the street from us about 3 blocks, but anyhow you could smell him coming from 2 blocks away, I don't think he knew what a shower was for but he comes into the shed where I had all the laptops set up and buys the lot, I think I had like 12 of them at the time. So I just had to ask why, his reply "I have them all set to different screen savers all over my house and have them running all day, I just love to watch them." He died several years ago, the people who got his house called in one of those crime scene cleanups, not that he laid dead in the house or anything but the stink was so bad. The crime scene cleanup failed and now the nice big 5 bedroom house he lived in is a vacant lot. I would guess all the laptops went with the other contents to the trash.

[@andygozzo72]

old laptops like that are still usable for many purposes....

[@frankowalker4662]

Nice work as always Shango.

[@RickO.-vq8oh]

LMAO @ people melting down over AC line capacitors . . . spilled my coffee - THANKS!!!

[@pafoofnic]

POP!

[@pikadroo]

I like the barber poling rainbow 🌈😜

[@TommyJensen-pl8qz]

Cool roundy color tv 👍

[@olradguy]

Worked on these RCAs back in the 70s, first.rule was resolder the entire color board crappy connections were all over and don't go by looks I know its time. Consuming but you will save much grief also the 6GH8 problem was mainly the RCA brand black heater tubes were garbage, it was so bad I refused them at the parts distributors

[@IainDavies-z2l]

These TVs were never reliable, I can remember as a kid even with new color TVs the repair guy was out all the time.

[@directcurrent5751]

It took guts and bucks to early adopt color television.

[@directcurrent5751]

Gasp ¡ The audacity to ignore the filter capacitors ¡

[@tomj4506]

5 & 6GH8 rep is from the sockets often.

[@brownyysnoopy]

I made the reverse polarity on a capacitor once in a philco 49 350 radio..i powered with batteries and the 90 volt filter let go with a bang.!!!!!😂

[@8BitNaptime]

I like the funcation button

[@Mr_Meowingtons]

Hello from buffalo ny @38:50 Yeah #Billsmafia.

[@jmcbride4010]

I can’t remember the model number,but philco had a early 1980’s model that did the same thing, it was a 220k resistor on the fly back supply out of tolerance, color would jump in after it got hot, good video!

[@andershammer9307]

I had one of those once but the picture tube was dead so I ordered and paid for a new one from Lafayette. I never got it and then they went out of business. They never gave me my money back. I was sad to strip the tv for parts.

[@DonnyHooterHoot]

The Tubes, the Tubes. the Tubes. Signed: Quasimodo.

[@DonnyHooterHoot]

52nd.

[@skullheadwater9839]

Wish I could find something like.this in the wild. Someone I know wants to give me an 89' System 3 but I like the older ones much more.

[@justsumguy2u]

I bet servicemen back in the day hated working on these---complexity with lots of pcb goodness mixed in. But you were persistent and got to the bottom of it

[@natechrisman5333]

Yay, I can’t wait to watch it later ❤

[@RobertKross-tw4si]

What does a restored set like this go for today?

[@markmarkofkane8167]

I have a question: is that HP a VTVM? And is a VTVM required? I never had one. I think that is a vacuum tube volt meter. I heard about those in HS back in 1979. I never had one personally. Very interesting.

[@shango066]

An analog meter makes adjustment alignment stuff so much easier

[@gretalaube91]

In Shango's search of the mythical NOS quad flemming valve, I hear speak of Jordan Pier dispersing of his hoard. Did he SK? I am old, and thus exempt from social media. I don't change those across the linies until they hemorrhage wax, or self-delete. 73 de W3IHM

[@markmarkofkane8167]

Excellent!!!!👏

[@Xplasma1]

Just some bad soldering. Dodged a major bullet there. Good diagnosis! Zenith System 3 CRT's are worse than Chromacolor II CRT's. I should know. I've garbage picked enough of them. The Chromacolor II was really the Zenith of Zenith's, as far as CRT quality goes. If I find one, I will be pretty sure that the CRT will still produce a good picture. (One or 2 color guns might take a bit to come up, but they will come up) A Zenith System 3 will likely have had the life run out of the CRT by this point. There will be color bleeding. The picture will either be dim, or the G2, brightness, and contrast will be maxed out. It may be so far gone that all you get is a green tinted image with retrace lines. And don't get me started on any Zenith made after 1992...

[@HankPanky]

Don't sweat it. My eyes are low resolution.

[@bobbyk6585]

Great time spending my shabbat morning with Shango on the hunt for a fault in a CRT set.

[@Chlorphen]

So much desert dust in that area.

[@rkmklz7562]

My Grandparents had a GE with the Round Tube......it had a Weird Tuner......the Tuner had this thing in the front you pulled....it would tune by its self..to a station was found..than you but it back in to position...it was like a pulley 😮.... strange

[@larryshaver3568]

is that red thing a capacitor?

[@leetucker9938]

skyrizi

[@tomcarlson3913]

When there's 2 wires on a can and a good place for the cap down one of those wires I just disconnect the wires from the can, make an inline western union splice that I solder and heat shrink and locate the cap elsewhere on that line...Just did that on a CTC-20 this week. CTC-17 and lower (and clones, and non-RCA designed sets) 6GH8s are fine in. It's CTC-19 and higher where RCA used 5+ 6GH8s and ran them at the ragged edge of their specs where they tend to be trouble....The techs that did hotel servicing back then will recount pushing shopping carts of 6GH8s from room to room at the hotels and will tell you that "any set that uses n > 4 #GH8 tubes will have N+1 bad #GH8s in it" # because there were 5GH8 series string RCAs too.🤮

[@waltschannel7465]

It's shangO'clock! I really shouldn't show my face if I'm gonna make bad dad jokes like that

[@keithperry8098]

We're on the short bus to hell! 6JU8 Dont stop me ahhhhhhh!

[@jmartz7431]

Funcation! 31:00

[@glennk1931]

Been looking forward for this video. 😊👍

[@Chems7308]

Confusing instrument sometimes...

[@rodsradios]

Yippee it's Shanho day.!

[@darikdatta]

Google is offering to translate that to English for me :)

[@DonnyHooterHoot]

@@darikdatta Me too!

[@pj1981ful]

hello sjango is yorden pier dead than greats from geert from holland

[@davidhollfelder9940]

PRP circuit? Fail .. find the perp.

[@yvonnewray4405]

First