19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
2:54 p.m.
I am sending some Datapoint 2200 CRTs to Thomas for repair. They have
to retool their shop for this repair, therefor BULK is our friend.
Anyone want to get in on a group rate?
8:51 a.m.
I am sending some Datapoint 2200 CRTs to Thomas for
repair. They have to
retool their shop for this repair, therefor BULK is our friend. Anyone want
to get in on a group rate?
I would be interested to see just how much this is going to cost you.
Thomas charges a *bunch* of money for rebuilds, and generally will not
touch simple CRTs like in the Datapoint 2200 - they generally deal
with radar CRTs and such. The old roundie TV guys simply can not use
Thomas, even though they are willing to spend many hundreds of dollars
on those old tubes to get their sets working again.
--
Will
10:51 a.m.
In article <CANij+dfVRLirgFLB6OvxRDCobgLmU2gLYhO_552XCQd6iEThDg at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Presumably this is the place the original poster was talking about:
<http://www.thomaselectronics.com/services/crt_refurbishment.php>
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> I am sending some Datapoint 2200 CRTs to Thomas
for repair. They have to
> retool their shop for this repair, therefor BULK is our friend. Anyone wan
t
to get in on a
group rate?
I would be interested to see just how much this is going to cost you.
Thomas charges a *bunch* of money for rebuilds, and generally will not
touch simple CRTs like in the Datapoint 2200 - they generally deal
with radar CRTs and such. The old roundie TV guys simply can not use
Thomas, even though they are willing to spend many hundreds of dollars
on those old tubes to get their sets working again.
12:01 p.m.
Presumably this is the place the original poster was
talking about:
<http://www.thomaselectronics.com/services/crt_refurbishment.php>
Yes. There are only a handful of places left that still rebuild tubes,
and of them, most specialize in the ever shrinking market for high
power devices for replacement use. I sold some 50 kW tubes to one of
them a couple of years ago, and got a nice tour and talk, and the
truth of the matter is that tube rebuilding is EXPENSIVE. Even the
audiophiles with their dead thousand dollar triodes get turned away -
they can not afford the rebuild process. Unless Thomas is desperate
for business, I suspect rebuilding the Datapoint CRTs will probably be
insanely costly.
--
Will
9:22 a.m.
In article <5124028E.8010906 at comcast.net>,
Nick Allen <nick.allen at comcast.net> writes:
I am sending some Datapoint 2200 CRTs to Thomas for
repair. They have
to retool their shop for this repair, therefor BULK is our friend.
Anyone want to get in on a group rate?
What exactly are they repairing?
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<http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
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