Shipping CRT's

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by dtvmcdonald

The question is ... will that Russian tube still work, if the chip is lying at the bottom
of the bell, or was it a necessary part of the gun? A fine example of Stalinist
technology.

I got a 5BP4 this morning from Fair Radio. It was packed in a non-box
made from random pieces of cardboard (five of them) taped together, barely
big ennough to contain the tube which was held in with crumpled packing paper!
Argggghh. However, it works like new (Finally! are really good one) and was
only $51. My TT-5 is now watchable.

That Russian tube might actually work as is (and just be less nice)...it is worth testing.

Holey cow that CRT actually made it to you in one piece?!?!...Buy a lottery ticket.
I had a Pioneer LD player shipped to me that way only it was an actual box, the crumpled news paper was far less than needed (you could tip the box and feel the player slide inside), and wet...The only good thing they did was put the player in a plastic bag. The laser pickup's motor mount, and the flexible PCB that was used as it's power cable were broken.
I thought it would make a good master card commercial:

"LD player on ebay: $0.99
shipping from Tx to Wi: $28
Super glue: $2
phono pickup wire: $3
Watching MacGuyver on a LD player you fixed like he would: Priceless"