Westinghouse K840CK15 Restoration

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Originally Posted by Popester

Very cool. Marshall, how many tubes does that Westy have? I bet that heats up the room just a bit. Childhood memory I have is of my Uncle’s cat would lounge on top of their tv because of the warmth the tubes would give. Just amazes me the America ingenuity we once had as a nation. It would sure nice to recapture that innovation and ingenuity again. That’s a time when American was really leading the world in technology.

Thanks. The Westy has 43 tubes but Mike replaced two 5U4’s with silicon rectifiers. Innovation: The problem as I saw it in my career and with America’s great electronic companies was a lack of vision. Example, RCA invented LCD and the top brass nixed the project, seeing it as competition to their existing CRT’s rather than the potential. The rest is history. Other companies look at short term profits, not willing to go the “mile”. I blame it on the “suits” not the engineers and scientists.