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A collector sent me this:
I just was in communication with VDC about a couple of round CRTs for my early color sets, and received the following good news from them. They still rebuild some of the old color units at $250 each.
Also I have been in contact with Jeff Aulik from Clinton in Illinois. I specifically asked him about rebuilding the Philco Predicta CRTs because he told me a year before that they still do those. Here is his recent response: "We do and we don't rebuild CRT's at Clinton. Rebuilding is extremely time consuming. Everything is done by hand by the Engineering staff, from making the electron gun to putting the finished tube in a shipping box. We accept only a small number of rebuilds each year, chosen on the basis of which ones can make us enough profit to justify the number of hours spent, in addition to the oddball and sometimes expensive items that have to be scrounged up (usually related to making the electron gun.)"
So, there may be options for having your tube rebuilt. Check with Video Display and Clinton.
Erv Kuczogi
Video Display Corporation
570-253-3910
Jeff Aulik
Clinton Electronics
(815) 633-1444
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