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I removed the base on my Philco 48-2500 TP-400 CRT to fix a loose wire.

I cleaned the 4 wires on the TP-400 and solder sucked the solder where they attach at the base.
Then took my drill and a small drill bit to make the hole bigger.
Then carefully straightened and aligned the heavy wires that come out of the CRT.
Then slide some tiny wires through the base holes and solder tacked them on.
Then carefully slid the base down on the CRT neck while holding light tension on the tiny wires
and used black electrical tape to attach the base on the CRT neck.

Cut the tiny wires off and re-soldered the CRT base pins.

The key trick really is to make the pin holes in the CRT base bigger using the drill bit and
using the tiny wires to guide the CRT pins into the base.

Takes about 15 minutes.

Carl