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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
The CRT should be easy to find, if the original is dead (no emission? Open filaments?).
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It's got next to no emission, even at 8 volts. I just got 3 electron gun assemblies in the mail though and I'm heading to the ETF next week tube in hand...
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I had no idea, until I read dieseljeep's post, that Sarkes-Tarzian television tuners were cheap ones. I was under the impression for years that S-T was one of the better makes of tuners. What made them "cheap"? Flimsy designs with cheap plastic parts, underrated components that failed after only a very short time, or . . . ? I can see such tuners being used in cheap 1970s-'90s pre-DTV portables, but good grief, not in high-end sets. After all, I am sure Zenith and other well-known TV manufacturers would not have been caught dead using cheap tuners (or other cheap parts) in their TVs in the '50s.
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Can't comment on the quality of the tuner, I'm not a tuner buff. It seems to click solidly when I turn it though, so they at least made the detents decent. lol I suppose we'll find out just how good it is soon enough, I'll probably have to do a full alignment on it when I get the chassis recapped. This one has UHF built in, nice feature for a prototype set to have in 1954.