22 Apr
2009
22 Apr
'09
8:43 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Did they typically replace the damage with a new section from the factory
(i.e. manufacturers were happy to supply 'bits' of a CRT) - or would the
repairers find a donor tube and salvage the sections that they needed?
cheers
Jules
I haven't
followed this thread, but at least at one time (circa 1995)
there was an outfit near or in Philly that would cut the neck off of yer
crt and presumably meld a new face (?) to it. Sounds like fun. You work
Normally it was the other way round. You kept the
screen/phosphors/shaddowmask, etc and replaced the electron gun (either
the whole thing, or just the heater/cathode part, depending on the CRT
type). It was a way of getting CRTs that had lost emission (i.e. worn-out
cathode) going again.