what is a bench test tv chassis?

[jbivy]

Im a novice, im still reading tv books and to be honest most of it still goes over my head, but im slowly learning the "magic". A friends friend had died and he played with electronics all his life, was a radar technician, who also played with tvs and radios. He had this g.e table top chassis mounted on a wooden frame, with alligator clips on the end the crts wires and a dozen or so crt end caps with it and a "cycle" gauge added to the side of the thing. Theres a few more wires "unidentified" by me yet with the alligator clip ends. This was among the few "test equipment" pieces that didnt sell last year. I picked it and an unknown brand and model round crt that was laying there.

Ive no clue as to what this was used for, i cant get any pics on till next weekend when my brother comes back to town. (sorry im not great with computers).

Any idea what this was used for? Maybe it was for testing pictures on various crts? The cycle gauge has me fairly thrown though. Tomorrow im going to air hose the huge amount of wood chips, spider webs from it so i can try and figure it out.