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I too am afraid that the CRT rebuilders will go under due to lack of business. Due to the cheapness of recent consumer CRT sets; no one is going to have the CRT changed in one. That fact along with everything going to LCD, Plasma, etc. will probably hurt the CRT rebuilding market. Our local parts house recently discarded a bunch of new CRT's that have been sitting there for years. The owner told me that they had tried to sell them for below what they cost the supply house with no luck. They finally discarded them and wrote them off because they were taking up too much room. He said the only one's that bought CRT's were the hospitals for use in their TV's. Since those hospital TV's were different from consumer TV's, I guess it was cost effective to replace the CRT when it failed. After all, you can't buy those sets for $99.99 at wal-mart. BTW, there are some hospital TV's around here that are still used after 20+ years. I guess they keep them going as long as they can. I wonder if there's any of those old '70's Sylvania GT Matic hospital sets still in use anywhere. Those were the ones with the motorized tuner and the UHF position turned the set off.
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