What the heck are 'piles'?

Hemorrhoid's

Right you are. Been there, seen that likewise. 'Cept with regular tubes moreso than CRTs.

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I brought my trusty Sencore CR70 to the ARCI Radiofest earlier today and helped oldradio99 test the 15GP22.

At first we had good filament glow but no emissions or cutoff on any gun. After about 10 minutes the filament current drop dropped because one of the three filaments burned out. A short while later the draw dropped to 0 as all the filaments stopped drawing current. It seems that indeed it had gone gassy.

So that's a shame but at least it's in good condition and maybe can be rebuilt one day.

I stayed there until late afternoon chatting with fellow collectors (ElectronicM and Wiscojim mostly), and had a great time. Unfortunately though, I left my CR70 in Wiscojim's van :( I'll try to swing by tomorrow and pick it up otherwise I'm sure I'll get it back eventually...

And I'm holding it for ransom!

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Ha! I can always fall back on my B&K 466 if I have to ;)

Bob

Thank you for bringing out your trusty Sencor.

We all knew it was a long shot that the tube was good.

Hopefully I can find a good home for it where someone needs one to complete a set or someone who is willing to hold it until they can be rebuilt.

Thanks again.

Or for someone with a working CT-100 that would like to display a CRT next to their set.

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It's out of an early CBS set. Many were sent back (prototypes) and scrapped. I have one just like this one from New Jersey. ETF has a CBS and is set up like this one.

And this one is now going to EFT.