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Originally Posted by jstout66
Charlie, I hear ya! I sure miss the days when you could call a distributor and get whatever picture tubes you needed. I remember a time when our RCA supplier had a sale on 25XP22's for $29.99 I remember as late as 1981, you could get 21FJP22's for $75.00 and that was for a Sylvania tube!
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Sure wish I would've been older back then in the early 80's, could have bought enough crt's to keep all my sets working with brand new CRT's for a lifetime!
Sometimes I worry about what it will be like in, say, 30 years as far as buying replacement parts to keep my equipment operating...I doubt anything built then will use conventional electrolytic caps, transistors or diodes, etc. At least now we still can go to a distributor and get brand new 450 volt electrolytics or orange drops.
It is amazing how much 2000's model equipment we are seeing brought in for repairs or being brought to the recycling days. It seems like in the mid-late 90's most of the late 70's early 80's stuff that was the last really reliable equipment had given up the ghost and been replaced by the really cheap stuff..in many cases this new equipment such as DVD players, TV's, combination units, CD players, etc. is only lasting for 3 years or so before it develops problems. Some of its construction is REALLY cheap, like using a TO-220 transistor for a horizontal output transistor.