[DaveWM]

I was thinking of wrapping some packing tape around the perimeter of the lens building a wall then pour in some PVA (white glue I presume) to form a puddle in the middle then puting the CRT in place. Of course the hard part would be to figure out how much glue to pour into the puddle so as to have complete coverage, with out too much over fill causing a huge mess. oh and the last problem would be how to keep the center of the tube from coming into contact with the lens a squeezing out ALL the pva.

perhaps a jig that would support the crt inverted over the lens with just a fraction of an inch separating them during the cure. It sure would be helpfull to know how it was done at the factory.

another option would be to band them if anyone knew how to do that properly.

Stories like this make me worry just a bit about tubes installed with out the safty glass installed.