Any updates on RACS rebuilding early CRTs?

[Tom Albrecht]

No - the reason is because Predicta CRTs had a very short life due to a design flaw. In designing a very compact electron gun to make the neck of the CRT short, they ended up making a CRT with very poor life.

I suspect that Predictas were some of the shortest life TVs ever made, and the only ones that were run into the ground were those that had their CRTs replaced - something most owners would not do - especially on a set that was generally unreliable in other ways.

My own Predicta (a Holiday) has a CRT that I got rebuilt by Metrocolor Engineering in LA in the early 1990s. It was probably the very last CRT they rebuilt. I had it done as they were basically closing their doors. They managed to short the focus grid to something else so I cannot adjust the focus. Fortunately the focus is pretty good in its unadjustable state.