Westinghouse 22" rectangular find - caught in Audiokarma limbo! - Page 3 - Videokarma.org TV - Video

moto19 · #1 09-16-2009, 11:05 PM

I just accidentally found a thread using Google with posts today where a new member has or had a Westinghouse with the 22EP22 rectangular crt. I can only access it through Google's cache of the page, a search on either Audiokarma or Videokarma for 22EP22 doesn't find it either. Here's the cached version:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...5Idiv1hoBHGslQ

It's the 6th post down by jr_tech http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/member.php?u=71340

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Years ago, I had a conversation with an engineer on that project. He said that they were really concerned that the camera would get pointed into the sun and ruined as the Astronauts were hopping all over the lunar surface. Apparently the engineers at Westinghouse were holding there breath the whole time! He gave me a nice treasure from his old Westinghouse days... an early color TV (about 1956) with a Westinghouse-made rectangular 22EP22 crt. He said that these tubes were processed for a very long time to achieve a high vacuum, an expensive process. Later versions of this set had a cheaper mass-produced round crt.
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http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/att...9&d=1252448393

He's apparently posted a picture of it (link above), but it's not accessible, nor is the link to the thread itself
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...zBcPwV-Z4egRiQ.

I just get the error message below, and my regular AK/VK password doesn't work.

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Your administrator has required a password to access this forum. Please enter this password now.
Note: This requires cookies!

More strangeness, the beginning of this thread can be found on Videokarma, but it cuts off before his post:
http://videokarma.org/showthread.php...%2C+moon+fans!

Anyhow, I'm sure there are some here (myself included), that see this as the Holy Grail of early color TV. Other than a few ads and articles, I've never seen one of these in the flesh.

Hopefully the administrators of AK/VK can free this up and give the light of day to one of the most exciting finds here in a long time.

Jim