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Originally Posted by andy
That's probably why the portacolor CRT lasts so long. It has a huge electron gun, but a tiny screen. Even at high brightness, it's running under less load than a full size CRT.
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I gotta say, I've never seen a Portacolor with a bad CRT, no matter how beat-up and heavily-used the rest of the set appears.
If you ever actually needed a replacement CRT for a Portacolor, though, I seriously wonder if you could just swap it out (along with the yoke and other neck-mounted stuff) with one from a common 1980's-era 10AA or 10AB chassis GE set. The CRTs look identical except for a shorter neck on the AA/AB sets.
[I should really just try that out sometime just to see if it works...]