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As all of you who attended the Early Television Convention know, a successfully rebuilt 15GP22 was on display. Last year, the tube was in our warehouse. It had a broken neck, and was full of debris of all sorts. No one thought to protect it because it appeared to be too far gone to ever be rebuilt.
Jerome Halphen shipped it to France, where RACS made it work again, using frit glass to stop the massive leaking at the glass-metal junction. They attached an new neck, stem and a rebuilt gun.
When the crew at the convention, led by Pete Deksnis, tried it in a set, they couldn't get the right colors. Finally it was discovered that RACS, not having a complete tube with gun to work with, had installed the gun 120 degrees off from its proper orientation. The leads on the tube socket were changed to accomodate the wrong gun position, and a nice color picture was obtained.
Now RACS will attempt two more tubes. If they are successful, the 15GP22 will live on. Many thanks to John Folsom and Bob Galanter who spent hours and thousands of dollars getting this project going, and to Jerome for working with RACS to get the tube rebuilt.
More will be posted on the ETF website soon.
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