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Hi Tube,

You get around, B & W, ancient color... . As I mentioned its former owner broke the exhaust tip, along with the socket, off of the CRT. So it's full of air. I talked to Video Display in Dallas about it and they won't touch it if it's aired up, and they say they don't have any guns for it (19VP22),although it looks like a 21FJP22, which they will do.

I am all ears if anyone knows where there is a 19VP22 on the loose, but I don't think there are too many around. Steve Mcvoy mentions in his website stuff that there is one (CBS)around with a bad tube. And so it's well known there is a need for one.

I hate so-called "static displays". It should be able to work to show its stuff to the best of its ability. After all its architecture isn't that neat, so it's got to work.

Actually the way this set is put together isn't very refined. It's like a proto. The CRT is mounted on a wood stoneboat that slides onto the cabinet shelf, and is bolted down. I was figuring on just pulling the stoneboat with the CRT still hooked on it, and building another stoneboat that will fit both the 21FJP22 and the shelf without modifying any of the original stuff. The replacement tube is one inch bigger than the original. The new tube has to fit the original face mask, since both tubes are spherical, just a slightly different radius.

As for how I came up with this stuff: I got tired of putting up with all the ebay mesrep's and freight destruction. So I spent a Suday scouting around right here in Spokane, where nobody care about old TVs. At the end of the day, I had a Philco 49-1150, 2 CTC5s, and the CBS. And the Stromberg came a couple days later-for nothing.