another cat removal

[bgk283]

dont want to be premature in case someone else has a better way,but, i think we got the way to do this......

[DaveWM]

the green goo remnants were cleaned off with some gasoline, looks good, so I will use this lens for the good roundie since the one I popped off had a bad scratch in it. The plan is to seal up the tube with the lens (maybe tomorrow) and then to install in the stockholm. the stockholm tube will be de-cat and will be a spare, or will go into the CTC-7 table top (metal cap faux wood finish) if that chassis is fixable.

[Kevin Kuehn]

Nice work guys and thanks for the pictures. Hopefully I'll be giving this a go here myself soon. We're having a real hard time transitioning into spring, seems it's been snowing most every week in April.

I wonder how much the water soak helps, or if it's mostly the sun doing the softening?

[Ampico-kid]

Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn

I wonder how much the water soak helps, or if it's mostly the sun doing the softening?

I think the water is an integral part of it. Before I started the water soaking the bonding material was quite hard and very difficult to penetrate. After soaking in the water it was very pliable and rubbery feeling. It would be extremely difficult to get the wooden pry bars in there unless the stuff was soft enough, and I think that's where the water comes into play. The day I put it out into the sunlight, it was still pretty brisk outside. I felt the screen and it was just warm to the touch, so I don't think the heat played a major role in the release. Bob

[DaveWM]

update the wire I used on the green cat to slice thru the goo was a .02" not
.007 that I thought.

I have some CD scratch remover I plan to try on one of the smaller scratches. Also picked up some foam 3/16 wide by 1/4 thick stick on window seal. I plan to use that to space off the lens from the CRT.