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I've often contemplated just that. If I had a few thousand to blow(and a car and a CT-100, and a 40's jukebox so as not have those as a purchasing priority) , that project would be at the top of my to do list.
I feel it would be highly feasible if one had metal fabrication experience (to make your own rebuilding equip), glass working experience, a few duds to play with, and a proper vacuum pump...I feel the rest could be acquired easily and or researched and self taught. A 3D scanner and metal printer could make new gun parts a snap, and this technology is becoming cheaper and closer to a consumer product at an impressive rate.
If I had a few grand to play with, no college or work to take my time (and other expensive to-dos knocked off) I bet I could make a rebuild happen from nothing within two years....With their resources, if the ETF had a clever person with time (enough to make it a full-time endevor), money, and a gung-ho attitude I'm sure they could be having full test rebuilds before fall.
Coot: A full rebuild as you define it is only possible for monochrome CRTs (and only a necessity for pre-aluminized CRTs). Color tubes have a phosphor deposition and shadow mask construction and alignment process so complex that it would be about as much work to make a new CRT from scratch as it would be to re-phosphor one. That is why color rebuilds were gun and safety glass swap only procedures back when rebuilds were an industry.
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