[AiboPet]

LOL..... You hafta build a LITTLE tiny roundie!!

I have a small monitor I built out of a 1" viewfinder CRT like that, but it's maybe a .75" rectangle one. I wish I had REAL good woodworking skills. I'd build a REAL real small wood cabinet and make it look like an old Motorola set or something, or even a little "mirror" set. So far, it's just a little TINY ntsc b/w monitor just sorta ziptied together :P

I do have a Panasonic CT-101 up in LA at my dad's place. I gotta remember to get that little thing down here some day before it grows legs or something. It's a 1.5" color set.

And Eric...COOL!!

Would deffinately love to see a little CRT for this little set, and I'm in no hurry. I didn't really seem to ever locate any place I could just buy a couple, and I hate the idea of being "stymied" by such an obvious problem on one of my little projects. I noticed last night that the original CRT also has a different "warmer" phosphor color. I think I saw that a couple times with the little 5" Coby style sets too. Seems like the SAME crt by different manufacturers....or could even be just different batches. The Maggies have the same CRT, but are "cooler" in that their b/w picture is more on the blue side. One of the 5" sets is so weird in that way it's almost PURPLE even though it's the same CRT used in THOSE sets.

Weird though....I still can't find anything that looks like a model number on these. The two maggies have some chinese scrawl on some stickers, but the original problem CRT still just has the "EIA 1240" sticker and thats all. I did LOOK at the necks real closely before I just indiscriminately swapped 'em just to see. They appear to be exactly the same part. I even looked at the CRT on the little 4" Magnavox "TV/clock/radio" I have....and it ALSO is the same nondescript crt the two shadows have. I'd lay odds the little Emerson "boombox" with the 4" picture is likely the same as well. It's pretty hard to miss the very square and flat geometery of this part compared with other CRTs. No doubt popular because of the short throw of it's high deflection.