[VintagePC]

I've had an interesting idea rattling around in my head...

a "community built" vintage TV. Let me explain:

1. We pick a vintage set for which rarer parts (e.g. flyback, coils, picture tube) are fairly common.

2. We publish the schematic/list of components and parts needed.

3. People in the community can donate items to the designated builder. This can be a handful of caps, some resistors, or a tube (or two). As each item is donated, it is marked on the list so we all know what is still needed. Parts should be new where possible (caps, resistors), and matching original elsewhere (chassis, coils, xformers) though if someone has skills to hand wind coils/transformers or bend a chassis from sheet metal, that's acceptable too.

4. Depending on cabinet availability, we either
-Retrofit a matching cabinet that's in bad shape
-Build a new cabinet to fit the set.
In either case, we decorate it with the names of everyone who donated parts. Water-slide decals of signatures or printed names would be best, I think.

5. (up for discussion) The resulting "new" vintage TV is then auctioned off, and the proceeds go somewhere (charity, support VK,?)

Whaddya think? Is it something we could get folks interested in?

I realize there may still be some issues that would need to be worked out, but nothing we can't surmount.

Edit: Mods, if you want to post a link to this in the B&W forum, that might draw some more folks who lurk there...