ISTR the museum acquiring a large stock of inline guns with some of their equipment. If they had someone to do the work they could probably make good money rebuilding color monitors for the arcade and vintage PC communities. When a PC or arcade is worth 4 figures it's a lot easier to justify spending $200-500 on a rebuild of the CRT.

Long overdue update!

Since most of this work will likely revolve (no pun intended) around smaller size tubes like the 10BP4 and 12LP4, I decided to throw together a smaller glass working lathe. This is being build out of scrap from an aluminum pallet and of all things an elliptical machine. The rotating bit was attached to the elliptical pedals to make them go around, turned out to be a great basis for the CRT portion of the machine. I just attached a round piece of aluminum to it, and that will spin the tube once I get a way to hold them ironed out. Plan is to have a speed controlled motor mounted underneath with a jackshaft to run both ends (the gun holding end must spin at the same speed as the tube), I already have the torch ready to go once this part is finished.

https://videokarma.org/attachment.ph...0&d=1701554386

I am glad to hear that you are still active with this project, Nick. I wish you much success.

This hobby definitely needs someone in the rebuilding business.

Will you still he able to do larger black and white tubes? I have a 27 and a couple 21s that need rebuilding when you're ready.