I saw this ad for some CRT rebuilding equipment from an estate... Says never used, looks like truth!

Includes what looks to be a gun placement lathe cabinet, and a BIG vacuum pump. I don't see any oven, but this could be a one-piece lathe and oven. No idea.

I do see a box of guns!

http://cgi.ebay.com/PICTURE-TUBE-REBUILDING-EQUIPMENT-NEVER-USED_W0QQitemZ220065961744QQihZ012QQcategoryZ73374 QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

He'll never get that price, but when he finds that out, he might go WAY down. I say $500 for the lot.

Charles

Ha! I was just leafing through some old magazine articles (long story short, a technician cut-out, saved & categorized articles from Electronics Technician & other publications) and I spotted an ad for the company that made it, as well as another company with a similiar machine. I guess there had to have been a bunch of these in service throughout the country. Were they any good, really? I would think the training would be the big thing. The one ad said they would come set it up and show you how to use it. A big selling point in the ads was how little space it would take up.

Looks like great project material for the ETF museum :-)

I have only a general idea of what's involved in rebuilding a CRT. How many additional gadgets & supplies would you need to actually use this?

Phil Nelson

Hey ! I'm a-gonna git it & start goin into th' bidness of re-makin them there now ol' CT-100 Pitchur Toobs ! Y'all load 'em up, & send 'em all in now, y'hear ?

sounds like a fishy plan

This was on Ebay earlier with a minimum bid of about $7000.

The problem with these things is the amount of time and experience it takes to do successful rebuilds. I don't have the time to learn how. Otherwise we'd try to get it for the museum.

Ha! I was just leafing through some old magazine articles (long story short, a technician cut-out, saved & categorized articles from Electronics Technician & other publications) and I spotted an ad for the company that made it, as well as another company with a similiar machine. I guess there had to have been a bunch of these in service throughout the country. Were they any good, really? I would think the training would be the big thing. The one ad said they would come set it up and show you how to use it. A big selling point in the ads was how little space it would take up.

Wow! Y'know, I was flipping through some old magazines a couple weeks ago and I bet I saw the same ad you did (not the machine in that eBay auction; the one made by a different company), and wondered the same thing..! ...and I wondered if there might be some old TV repair shops out there that actually bought one of those machines and still had it standing idle in a corner someplace. I think it was supposed to take up 4x8 feet of floor space, though. Now I'll have to dig up one of the issues of that magazine (I think it was _PF Reporter_ magazine -- I got a whole *bunch* of those things a few months ago) and check. I agree that the training would probably be the big thing..!

I was over to the antiqueradios forums and saw the thread over there...here is a link

http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=66550

There is some very good information on picture tube rebuilding which I had not read anywhere before.

Thanks for this interesting link,
my tube regunner made a big secret around this.:tresbon:
Kind regards,
Darius