New projects: Bush TV22 and Philips TX500

[yagosaga]

Hello,

on christmas day, a friend of mine, tv collector, visited me and donated a tv set wrack to me. I took it first and thought that I would exchange it for other tv spare parts. It is a Dutch Philips TX500 with a broken crt:

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...g/tx500_01.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...g/tx500_03.jpg
http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...g/tx500_04.jpg

But later I realized that this is one of the first 625 line tv sets and I decided to keep and restore it. Meanwhile I have got a new crt with god emission and a missing four channel tuner for it.

Another tv set I got in the last year was a British one, Bush TV22. The bakelite housing is in mint condition but the chassis looks bad:

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...ovisorisch.JPG

The crt is absolutely bad, with no emission (measured with a crt meter).

Today I have fired up the set and I got a small raster. It was only visible in an absolutely darken room:

http://bs.cyty.com/menschen/e-etzold...firstLight.jpg

The crt is a MW22-16. Does somebody know whether I can replace the crt with an American tube, perhaps a 12" crt?

Eckhard