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frenchy

10-13-2005 11:33 PM

What the heck?

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What is this thing, some kind of promo mockup of a picture tube neck gun assembly? Fits any color tv set?? At first I thought it was a camera pickup tube. Wish I could read that letter....

polaraman

10-13-2005 11:42 PM

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It looks to me to be a replacement gun for the rebuild of a CRT. Am I right or wrong?

polaraman

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jroberts500

10-13-2005 11:53 PM

I guess all you need is one of those vacuum chamber glass welding facilities and you can restore your own picture tube!
It sems odd that it states it can be used on any make color set. I would think that anybody who is capable of welding one would know what it could work with. I wonder if it's for a roundie. I hope so!
I bet we'll know by later this morning.

frenchy

10-14-2005 12:58 AM

If this was actually a gun assembly for use in a tube I'm thinking maybe that container would need to be pretty darn airproof too or wouldn't all the elements in it just start to corroded and turn white? Maybe it is cuz it's still nice and shiny!
Nah I'm starting to think maybe this was just some dealer promo thing or part of a store display showing the gun assembly inside one of their replacement picture tubes, since it just says "color picture tube" all over the place, not "picture tube gun assembly". Maybe something they sent to TV repairman?

andy	10-14-2005 09:40 AM

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bgadow

10-14-2005 11:55 AM

It looks like a counter display for a tv shop, using a replacement gun assembly, so all guesses are correct! Maybe they used factory seconds for this purpose? It seems strange that they would waste good ones for such a display. I'm not sure what the gun assemblies cost back then, though I guess it couldn't have been much more than, say, the cost of a sweep tube or something. Would be neat to have; I don't think I would trust it to be any good.

old_tv_nut

10-15-2005 10:02 PM

I think the "fits any TV" wording makes it an obvious advertising piece - they were trying to sell pin for pin replacements for more common brands, most likely. BTW, I never heard anything good about Admiral CRTs. They were somewhere near the bottom of the barrel in terms of life expectancy from what I heard.

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