Channel master crt

[Tom S]

I used Sylvania and Channel Master. No probs with either one.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Tom S

I used Sylvania and Channel Master. No probs with either one.

Did you have to get them shipped from G.M Popkey in Green Bay?
They had a store in Milwaukee, that's where I bought mine! The Sylvania CRT's were named "The Competitor" as the price competed with the local rebuilts. I don't remember having trouble with either C-M or Sylvania rebuilts.
But after two years, they just about had it.

[Tom S]

Matter a fact yes Popkey and Satterfield out of rapids in my area. Jack Bruner was our rep from Popkey and Bill Shulzime for Satterfield.

[ohohyodafarted]

Tom S. and Dieseljeep....

I got a hoard of CM tubes from Bushland Radio Supply in Eau Claire a number of years ago. I believe he may still be in business. Did you guys ever deal with Bushland. I used to deal buy from Taylor Electric the RCA distributor and Popkey in the Milwaukee area.

Bushland in EauClaire was a Channel master distributor. He no longer had any customers for a large number of crt's in his inventory, so I was able to haul them away. Loaded my trailer and Ford Van and made 2 trips from Milwaukee to Eau Claire and back to get them all. I hauled away about 100 tubes. Many were duplicates for late model, table model B&W sets. I hauled many of the duplicates to the ETF museum and donated them. I kept all the color crts and a lot of the B&W. I got 3 rebuilt CM 21FJP22's, a GE rare earth 21FJP22 and a CM rebuilt 21AXP22. And a lot of rectangular color crt's. Bushland wanted the space to store Channel Master brand antenna's, because a lot of people in northern Wisconsin were putting up UHF antennas to receive the digital stations at the time of the switch to digital.

I have used and sold a number of the tubes and so far everyone including myself has been very happy with the quality of the CM tubes.

I have all the tubes for sale on my web site, except for the 21" roundies. Allthough all the crt's are NOS CM rebuilts in original cartons, the color tubes with bonded safety glass all have cataracts to one degree or another from having been stored for so many years prior to my receiving them.

At some point I may consider selling the rebuilt CM 21FJ's on ebay because so far nobody has offered me a decent price for them. I guess that is because of the cataracts that would need to be removed.