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Originally Posted by Boobtubeman
This was all the life mine had before the CRT filament went poof..
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Did you try reflowing the filament pins on the base?
In a related story, my dad used to carry a small tool in his pocket for fixing intermittent or dead elements on the old CRTs that used the old phenolic bases, from B&W right through the 21AP color.
It was a small rectangular piece of brass (like two inches of a wide carpenter's pencil) with a hole drilled down the center just large enough to slide down and over any single pin of the crt socket. There was a thin slice opened on one side of the tool and a handle that would fit in the slice and pivot from the end of the tool.
So dad would slide this over the wayward pin (tight fit) and flip the handle into the slot and press down. What it did was crimp the pin, and the tight fit of the tool meant the pin kept its overall round shape.
I have that tool somewhere. If I can find it, I'll post a picture of it.
John