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A little off topic, but seeing as you mentioned Hawkeye, I thought I would step in and spill the beans.

I just returned from a pilgrimage to DeMoines where I spent a little over 2 days with Scotty and watched the process of tube rebuilding first hand. I took over 4 hours of raw video and will be producing a video over the next several months to show how the process is accomplished.

I hope to premier the video at the ETF convention, however there is major emphasis onthe phrase "hope to" as the editing process will take weeks of my time and I don't know if I will be able to finish the project before convention.

I must say, it was a most enlightening experience to watch Scotty work his magic. Scotty has a very nice facility and has 30 years of tube building experience. There are many highly specialized pieces of equipment that you need to be proficient in using in order to rebuild a tube. Scotty puts in a very long day which starts at 3:30AM every morning and ends at about 4:00 in the afternoon. He rebuilds 3 tubes per day. It's a lot of work and the process has many steps.

I had a 21fp4c rebuilt for my Stromberg Carlson Chineese set. I also was present as Scotty did a rebuild for John Folsom's ULTRA-RARE 19" CBS tri-color crt.

OK... now that I have all of you salavating about getting to see the video, I will sign off and won't say another word about it, until the production is complete.

Till later,
Bob