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Old 09-30-2017, 04:22 PM
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Well, if you do get it and need adapters, lemme know. I have seven of the 470s, 6 with broken case hinges. The hinges are literally the weakest link to the 470.

We used two of them - one for service calls, and one in the shop. When other shops started closing, we got their 470s for a song. I got my 7th 470 with a few sockets for $14 in 2010 from a picker, 13 adapters included. I've sold two to an amusements company, so I saved myself from having 9....

There was a reason all the shops here used the 470s - best bang for the buck. Sencore came to Hampton, VA with their road show back in early 1996 - and asked shops to bring in their tired, weary CRTs. The presentation with their CR7000 went bust when a whole bunch of us showed up with CRTs near dead or dead. Nothing esoteric - just a bunch of 23V/A63 stuff. The CR7000 restored one. They broke out a CR70 and it faired a bit better, restoring another the CR7000 couldn't. One smart ass tech from a Gun shop/TV shop brought in his B&K 470 and restored all but two of the dozen or so CRTs. Zing! The Sencore rep went right on presenting the VCR stuff while 10 or so of us were in the back, rejuving CRTs with the 470.

Our distributor had 470s on sale ($269, IIRC) at the time, and we picked up our second before they ran dry. About half of our adapters were homemade - get the Molex kit (still sold widely by Waldom via Mouser), a pinout of the CRT, and a socket from a junker set, and you've got the makings. B&K got $18 - $33 for the adapters, and the only one we bought was for the 11SP22/10VADP22 GE CRTs from Portacolor sets. All others came with the tester or were homemade for a dollar or less. IIRC, the B&K's (466, 467, 470, 490 etc) were the only ones that could test the Portacolor CRTs directly without having to set up the universal socket for each gun.
If it has Socket 3 (25A/23V/25V CRTs), it's a bargain at $24. You can make any of the sockets yourself, provided you have access to a socket from a junked set. You can also pick up sockets from brighteners, other testers (like the B&K 440 socket "trees"), Tele-Matic Jig adapters, and even CRT boards (like the Zenith 9-121) on eBay. There's a bunch of sockets and adapters for $20 on the 'bay right now.

I have the manual, setup guide, and setup charts should you need them - I can probably scan them to PDF too.
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Last edited by Findm-Keepm; 09-30-2017 at 04:27 PM. Reason: added tester info
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