Rebuilt 15GP22's?

[Chad Hauris]

I would think that bad 15GP22's in the 50's and 60's did not get rebuilt...since those sets were fairly rare there probably was enough new replacement tubes in RCA's stock to cover the need for replacements.

[frenchy]

Originally Posted by Chad Hauris

I would think that bad 15GP22's in the 50's and 60's did not get rebuilt...since those sets were fairly rare there probably was enough new replacement tubes in RCA's stock to cover the need for replacements.

Plus the 21 inchers came out very soon after the 15s were introduced so by the time they needed rebuilt, it was probably a pretty good proposition for a customer to just dump the set and buy a lower priced brand new set with a MUCH bigger screen to boot.

[rca2000]

What would a skid (10 or so) of 15gp22's NOS and PERFECT, in emissions and seal, be worth? (NO, I do NOT know where one is... sorry!!)

I am guessing, between 30 and 40k?

[Chad Hauris]

There may be such a cache of 15GP22's somewhere so it always pays for all of us to check out old TV shops, etc. before it's too late.
Whenever I'm traveling through little towns in Texas and NM and I come across any TV shops I ask if they have any old round tubes.

[Pete Deksnis]

Originally Posted by Chad Hauris

There may be such a cache of 15GP22's somewhere ....

In case you haven't seen this story:

In the fifties, for the motion picture industry, the Hazeltine Company developed a system for viewing motion picture internegatives as a positive on a tricolor CRT. It is known as a color film analyzer, and the first one used a 15GP22.

The tube-type color film analyzers are now all gone -- the last all-tube survivor was a model made in the late fifties that ultimately used a 21FJP22. It was in India, still running in 1995.

About 1996, a Mexican company traded in an old analyzer that used the 15GP22. It was totally inoperable, but had been used up to around 1975.

The company from whom I got this information had an inventory of six NIB 15GP22's in stock until 1997, when management decided to toss all the tube-based analyzer inventory to make room. So along with all the other spare parts, there are six 15GP22's buried somewhere in a Los Angles landfill.

So yes, chances are good that somewhere there are undiscovered NIB 15G's.