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RACS rebuild is somewhere in the 750 Euro range for a Pyrex 20BP4. I was hoping people would get mobilized earlier this year while the dollar was strong so that the price wouldn't be so high in dollars, but alas that didn't happen and the dollar is falling now. So that's about $900-1000 at the moment for the rebuild.
RACS does a full rebuild with new phosphor and aluminization, so there is no problem with rebuilding tubes that have gone to air.
Shipping, if you try to ship just one tube yourself, is somewhere in the $600 - $1000 range. That's why we have plenty of incentive to pool. The total shipping price will be the same, pretty much regardless of the number of tubes, since it will be an overseas surface freight shipment on a pallet. It will be cheaper if we pool our tubes and ship from the east coast or Great Lakes region, rather than the west coast.
Obviously this isn't cheap, but if you have a valuable Pyrex tube to rebuild, it's the only game in town -- or more precisely, in the world.
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