[CaryLee]

Originally Posted by Steve McVoy

In addition to the facility we are setting up at the museum, there are two collectorss who are pursuing rebuilding their tubes. One is setting up one of "garage" plants:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/crt_color_champion.html

The other is rebuilding a 15GP22 in a way that he hopes will solve the leakage problem these tubes have:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/yurkon_15g_project.html

Very interesting!

That "garage plant" idea is something I'd never heard of before...but it does make sense and is right on track with what I was thinking. I remember reading old copies of Popular Mechanix and Popular Science back when I was a kid..which meant the mags were probably from the 50's and early 60's, and it seemed people, coming out of WW2 and heading into the days of the moon landing, were willing to try doing everything and anything for themselves..from smelting metal to building their own ham radios to building their own flying cars, stuff that hardly anyone attempts today. Who knows how much of it actually got done at home, but the ideas were out there. It's been that kind of "we can do it" thinking that's always fascinated me.

Now the re-engineering of the 15GP22 looks WAY beyond the scope of a "simple" rebuild! Reading that write-up is absolutely mind-blowing to me. MAJOR kudos for even attempting that project!

Thank you for posting those links. I'm very interested in what you folks are doing at the museum. Other than hauling around my grandparents DuMont for 20 years and finally getting it operating again over the last couple of months, I'm really a complete "noob" to all of this, but I've always been willing to try anything once.