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Old 08-03-2013, 10:48 AM
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REAL TVs have TUBES!
 
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Originally Posted by Einar72 View Post
Eric/Charles,

Any knowledge of Calvideo? I have a pair of their metal-cone 21's I'm afraid to look at due to storage time.
I've heard of them, but never formed an opinion. In the Los Angeles area, we had two major rebuilders; Dunbar and Pacific Vacuum. There were also a few midsized rebuilders such as West Coast TV in Culver City (3 or 4 ovens), and MetroColor in San Gabriel (a dozen or more ovens). The only one still in business today, is MetroColor...... Same owners, but it's now a cat boarding hotel, and the ovens have been converted to cat cages! They sold all the rest of the CRT rebuilding stuff to a company in Mexico in the early 2000s. I got a few NOS military 21" roundie color tubes from them, which are great. HR19VGUP22, if I recall. The military was still using 21FJ-type tubes for certain special applications at least until then, if not still today, I guess.

Charles
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