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Originally Posted by compucat
Regarding the delicate nature of PC boards in vintage tube TVs: Since this is such a problem, has anyone thought of or tried to get reproduction boards made? These would be boards with all the traces onto which we could transfer the components from our sets. Imagine giving these old board mounted tube sets another fifty years of chassis life without bridging or bypassing traces.  |
This wouldn't be too hard to do at home. All you would need is a scan of the board after removing all the parts, or good digital picture of the board traces before removing the parts. You could then clean it up in an image editor and print it full size on special etch resist transfer paper.
I doubt a commercially made replacement would cost that much, depending on how many you had made.