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Originally Posted by Electronic M
ISTR on (username M3STR8 aka) Lee's Royal Soverign CRT retrofit thread (forget if it was here and or ARF) someone mentioned there being some sort of factory issued retrofit kit for sets in the field with bad CRTs after they discontinued the IIRC 30BP4...If I was in your shoes Jim and happened to really want to use a Soverign with a dud tube I'd consider trying to implement Lee's solution...It seems the most practical one available.
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Yes, Lee did a nice job with his conversion. But running a 30-inch round set with a 27-inch rectangular CRT in it doesn't interest me at all. It would be a novelty at best.
Right now I'm just trying to find anything that will lead me to any verifiable historical documentation of any replacement 27-inch that Sandy said was already done in 1951-52. I can't really imagine anything like that happening back at the time that 30BP4 CRTs were still available.
When did the first 27-inch CRT come out?
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