An Emerson with a 19AP4??

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Aluminized 24AP4?
For what it is worth, my old GE tube manual shows the following for the 24AP4:
24AP4; gray glass, single magnet ion trap.
24AP4A; gray glass, aluminized, single magnet ion trap.

I doubt that rebuilders normally aluminized or even redeposited screens, anybody know of one that did?

jr

Think about it logically...Back in the days of monochrome sets being more common than color 'bright spot' suppression on power off was often lacking, and customers often listened to their sets after deflection failure resulting in horizontal line burns (not to mention possible ion burns). All of that was common back then, and not all of that is easy to check for when accepting rebuilds, but it will make the finished product unsellable (especially if they handle enough of the CRT type that clients are not necessarily getting 'their' CRT back). It is relatively cheap to rephosphor monochrome CRTs (compared to color CRTs). So something that would fix those issues would be a money maker. Once color CRTs that are mostly not able to be economically rephosphored became the most common rebuild jobs the monochrome rephosphoring stations likely became a waste of space.