Cleaning out a TV repair shop basement

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Olorin67

if you have an extra good 23V delta gun tube from that hoard, I'll buy it. (for late 60s Zenith)

That is uncertain at this time. I have a very weak one you can have free. I have 2 others that are good but if I keep the console alive one will be spoken for, and the other I need to keep as a spare. If I sell one then I gotta kill the Zenith console...I'd need about $140 for one of the good CRTs to make it worth doing that. Both of my good ones had the safety glass removed...I have the safety glass separate, but that safety glass is etched in places from storage.

If I go back to Indiana I may return with a few more and be comfortable letting one go for a bit less.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Thanks for the advice. I'd like to make do with what I have so if I don't have one (I've got some real oddball pulls so there's always a chance I may have one somewhere), then I may try making another damper tube work in that circuit...I've got some wacky series string dampers sitting in boxes with nothing better to do.

42EC4's, $3.00 at the Florida tube place.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

42EC4's, $3.00 at the Florida tube place.

Slaps forehead. I checked there but thought it was 45 instead of 42, and found nothing...Well if it ain't in my bins (I hope to check tomorrow if the Zappa concert don't eat that time) at least I have a trusted source for them.

Thanks, Dave!

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by centralradio

I feel sorry about that bottom set .

Did Elvis once own it?

[old_coot88]

Nah. Here's how he done it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTn2kSKA0b8

[KentTeffeteller]

aka the Elvis Presley Bang-Matic Remote Control

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

Did Elvis once own it?

The top or bottom one ?

The bottom as I stated earlier was an OLD necking that cleanly cleaved the back of the neck and the back half of the electron gun off rapidly....The cleaved off front of the electron gun was hurled with tremendous force at the shadow mask by the rush of air into the tube (I know this from the hole in the shadow mask and the crumpling of the getther mounting strap from the impact). it is a shame that black matrix CC CRT has it's phosphor and mask destroyed by the necking...If it had not then it would have been a prime rebuild candidate. That Zenith now has a good CRT in it...I hope someone will sell me a back for that set as I'd like some insurance against another necking...

The moto on top I'm part way on the cabinet reassemble. I'm hoping to make some progress tonight as I want to recap the chassis and get it working soon.

The problem with the Elvis bang-matic that kept it from catching on (aside from how hard it was on CRTs) was that if only had an off function.

[dieseljeep]

Tom! Are you planning on picking up the rest of the sets, etc?
As you said, the place had to be cleaned out by the end of October.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by old_coot88

Nah. Here's how he done it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTn2kSKA0b8

As I remember it, he was the only one home at the time.
There was pictures showing the set with only a bullet hole in the CRT face. The set looked like a CTC31 with a resin-bond CRT, so it didn't shatter like that.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

There was pictures showing the set with only a bullet hole in the CRT face. The set looked like a CTC31 with a resin-bond CRT...

The "remote" was a chrome plated Beretta M1934 .380ACP.