Motorola 7" question

[tubesrule]

Originally Posted by TV-collector

"Sorry, item cannot be shipped to Germany"

It was a try.

Happy week-end,

TV-Collector

I'm the one that got these reproductions made with the help of Chuck A. who loaned us a perfect original one. (yes, at least one perfect original still exists!) Ed S. who runs Renovated Radios is a neighbor of mine and is the guy who reproduces all the knobs and rubber parts. He wanted to know what parts us TV guys would like, and this is the first thing that came to me. He uses an expanding closed cell urethane foam to make these to the original consistency and pliancy. The material cost is fairly high and then he rejects a number of them if they get air bubbles in them. The fit is as the original but it does help to wet the inside edge when installing the crt to ease the positioning of it.

I would try purchasing the mask directly from his web site at : http://www.renovatedradios.com/parts.html

The mask is near the bottom of the page. I believe Ed ships world wide. I would contact him first as the Paypal shipping calculator is usually wrong for international, and rates have gone up here significantly.

Darryl

[TV-collector]

Thanks Darryl!

One more try!

TV-Collector

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by tubesrule

I'm the one that got these reproductions made with the help of Chuck A. who loaned us a perfect original one. (yes, at least one perfect original still exists!)
Darryl

My blond VT-71 still has a decent original CRT gasket so that makes two!

[tubesrule]

That's good to know Tom. The initial problem with reproducing these was I couldn't get Ed a good one. The ones in my sets that appeared fine would not come out. No matter how we tried (heat, solvents, etc) they would shatter into pieces when trying to remove them from the front board. We actually started gluing the pieces of one of them back together so he could at least start making the master, but then Chuck came up with this one that was still pliable and hadn't lost it's shape. I couldn't believe that any had survived and were still pliable. That was a life saver and made these repro's possible.

Darryl