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Originally Posted by WISCOJIM
I've had luck doing the same with a Dremel rotary tool to carefully grind the glass away.
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So have I, as I described earlier. BUT PLEASE ... don't use it on a power tool.
Dangerous to your CRT!
Do it right ... go to store like Lowes or Menards and buy a nice, new
DIAMOND encrusted tool of suitable shape. I used a cutoff disk. And use
it BY HAND. Slow but safe.
However those wires look very close to being long enough as is.
If they stick up at all, they are long enough. Clean them with #0000
steel wool or fine sand paper. Tin them. Then solder on tinned #30 or so
wire ... I get it from #22 tinned stranded wire. Finally stabilize them
using sensor-safe silicone. Make sure they are long enough to go throush
the base pins.
With ordinary care, your tube will live just fine. Don't worry about breaking an extra wire ... I broke a filament wire on one of my 5BP4s fixing
a broken deflection plate pin, and it works fine.