Am I crazy to collect these?

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Originally Posted by fsjonsey

Has anyone thought about building little retro wooden cabinets to fit these little chassis into, to make miniature models of vintage tv's? Maybe you could replace the thumbwheels with real knobs and fix a larger speaker, or even a small tube amplifier circuit similar the ones in AA5 radios? Of course then you would need the power supply for the amplifier... Or better yet, trying to make a homebrew tube chassis to drive one of these little crt/yoke combinations? Now that would be cool. These seem to be the best source of new production b&w CRTS around. Best part is they are dirt cheap

That was the idea I was thinking of when I salvaged the CRT and chassis from a TV/VCD boombox with a broken case, then I remembered how bad I am at woodwork.

I've thought of grabbing 9 of them and making a mini video wall. These CRTs have no mounting ears, so you could mount them edge to edge. Then drive it all with a PC. This guy uses the RGB lines indivdually to drive 3 B&W CRTs, so 2 dual head video cards could drive 9 CRTs.