Ladies and gentlemen, may I humbly introduce....

Good Lord, as I was reading that I thought your post was going to say that the guy up and disappeared and that your lost the cabinet......glad that's not the case. Even if he returns it to you in an unfinished state at least you'll have it back. Good luck.

Anthony

[domfjbrown]

Good luck from me too - hope it all goes well

Do either of your 15GPs work??

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by domfjbrown

Do either of your 15GPs work??

:rofl:



Um.....no, don't I wish

[NIPPERTHEDOG]

Nice find!!! Keep us informed on staus of critical parts (ie. CRT and flyback) Can someone reply to this question, HAS anyone devised a way to replace the CRT w/anything newer or easier to find--- as these are going to CRT heaven??? Is there a way to rebuild or replace them????

[SPL db]

A friend of mine has an old CRT rejuvenator unit from Sencore (SP?)

It would test the CRT to see if it's a likely candidate, then you'd just
hit the "rejuvenate" button and it would do it's thing...

You'd be lucky if you got two more years out of the tube, but it was
better than nothing!

Scott

[mbates14]

its worth a shot, take an older picture tube that has gone to air, and hook an airconditioner vacuum pump up to it, as they are known to pull a VERY hard vacuum. Almost enough to implode the glass.

Take one of those, let it run for awhile and see if you can get a picture, it would be nice if you did. then the stumper is reactivating the getter, and sealing the tube

[kc8adu]

gotta heat it in an oven while pulling the vacuum.
and an ac compressor is nowhere near good enough.not even the 3/4 hp robinair i use for ac work.
at the very least you would need a new getter.the cathode coating is gonna be dead too.
they are coated when the gun is made and are run at elevated heater voltage a while to expose the fresh cathode after evacuation/gettering.

Originally Posted by mbates14

its worth a shot, take an older picture tube that has gone to air, and hook an airconditioner vacuum pump up to it, as they are known to pull a VERY hard vacuum. Almost enough to implode the glass.

Take one of those, let it run for awhile and see if you can get a picture, it would be nice if you did. then the stumper is reactivating the getter, and sealing the tube

[mbates14]

oh well, it was worth a shot

[Kamakiri]

The cabinet still isn't back, but it looks like it may hopefully return. I spoke with the landlord of the property where the cabinet is, and he believes it is still there, in some form or other. Apparently I am one of several people in this situation, and hopefully within the next month, he will be able to file suit and I'll get my TV back, the rent had gone unpaid at that location for 5 months.

It has been approximately one year since I've seen the CT-100's cabinet, and I have no idea what it's going to look like when I finally lay eyes on it, assuming that it's not firewood. I haven't spoke with the actual guy in about a month (I havent been able to reach him), and last I heard he was "working on it"

[vintagecollect]

I would get the local authorities involved to make cabinet turn up---- since so much is at stake!! Did cabinet have YOKE AND crt??? IF JUST CABINET, WOULD BE SMALL FORTUNE TO MAKE GOOD REPRODUCTION. Consider this to justify consider formal action later.

[Kamakiri]

The authorities are involved at this point. I contacted the landlord of the building, and apparently there are many people that don't have their furniture, etc. Hopefully we'll see what happens in the coming week or two.

He just has the empty cabinet, no screen mask, etc.

[vintagecollect]

I hope you have the best of luck on this matter Kamakiri. This IS every collectors nightmare!! Your site is awesome! Good luck on this important issue. Thanks for taking advice as TV value is considerable, even as a display item. Best of luck again Kamakiri !!!