Thanks Charlie for your efforts.
Even though I don't have a pressing need to have a tube rebuilt at the moment, it was nice to know that I could still get it done for what I believe to be a very fair price. I'm not super "attached" to any of my current roundie sets, but if I came across a few like Doug has, I'd probably rebuild the tube just to have the set at peak performance.
All of these throw-away junk sets pi**-me off on so many levels. First the slave-labor wages paid to the people who build them, while the factory owners run around the streets of Bejing in knock-off Mercedes-Benz's, the manufacturing chemical byproducts that get dumped in the Yang-see river, the eyesore bad looks of them in our homes, and the space those pieces of junk take up in our landfills within a few years. Now I can add "economically unfeasible" to rebuild CRTs to my list of complaints!
Yesterday I saw new TVs in the candy/checkout isle of my local grocery store!!!
I've heard that Hawkeye only does B&W tubes... Many somebody who has done business with Hawkeye could tell them to get in touch with Phil at Video Display and see if they could buy up their remaining guns and roundie-specific tooling? Must be a business case to be made here even if the price goes up a bit. I never thought Hemi 'cudas would be selling for $1 million, so who knows?
