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Very disappointed on your behalf, and also for the many other people who volunteered time, money, and duds for this attempt. This only points out how lucky anyone is, who owns (or at least has been afforded the opportunity to see) a working 15" set. It is, I guess, only a matter of time until they're all leaky. Just thinking back to when I first started getting hold of CT-100s and other 15" sets in the early 80s, I recall only one compromised tube. The others all had good vacuum. Even a real crappy junker CT-100 that I got from a TV dismantler in South Central LA, which had been picked up in an alley, had a usable tube. By the mid 90s, I started seeing more & more of them failed; even in sets that had been working only a few years earlier. Times are changed now, forever.
Charles
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Collecting & restoring TVs in Los Angeles since age 10
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