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Originally Posted by jhalphen
Hi to all,
Hi Bob & Nick,
ETF 2026 Convention is now over, heard in YT video coverage that Nick had visited.
Did you find some adequate 2" glass tubing, ex-RACS inventory or otherwise?
If you've found some, what happens next?
Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France
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Hi Jerome,
We did find a couple lengths of 0120 Corning 2" glass. It was from the items that came from Hawkeye. It was manufactured by Corning and in the original shipping box from Corning. Shipping label stated that it was sold to a TV repair shop in the US who had a small rebuilding operation. The CRT rebuilding room was packed full of TV sets and it was difficult to conduct a further search. We did find 20 Pin stems that came from RACS. A further search will need to be done when the rebuilding room at ETF is more accessable.
In a year or so Nick plans to start some limited experimentation. Nick took home from the ETF, the Varian mass spectrometer Helium leak detector that John Folsom and I donated to the ETF. So Nick will be able to perhaps do some experiments in sealing leaky 15G's. Progress will be slow, but Nick is our best hope. He has the equipment and skill. Everything we found at ETF went home with Nick, along with 8 dud 15GP22's and 12 Rebuilt guns 15G guns that John Folsom and I had rebuilt at Southwest Vacuum.