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Originally Posted by vts1134
From the point of view of an extreme newcomer to this world, it seems logical that this service would not be profitable and therefore no longer available. I have seen threads of those commenting about people selling a vintage set for a hundred dollars and exclaim that the price is outrageous. How can we possibly expect there to be some one to provide such a highly specialized service to such a minuscule amount of people for prices that those few are willing to pay? Even taking into account the MUCH, MUCH smaller amount of people who both own rare and/or pre-war CRTs in need of rebuilding and the ability to spend a higher price to have those rebuilt, how many of those rebuilds would one need to perform in a year to make a living? It seems that the future of CRT rebuilding will be the hands of those who possess a passion for keeping them alive, and the means to make that passion a reality.
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I have to agree... there's about zero chance that the rebuilding of vintage CRT's will ever become a sustainable business opportunity. Not unless something drastic first happens to our current technology base. But then at that point I doubt there would be many vintage sets left to restore. IMO we could very well be the second to last generation that will casually watch these old tubes.