Missed out on round color tubes!

[bgadow]

This SHOULD be a wake up call for me to go knocking on doors, but I never do. Oh, I've cleaned out a number of old shops, and gotten some pretty good stuff. (no color roundies, though) I think the reason I don't is related to one of my favorite lines from a song, "don't go look for trouble, it will come for you". Got too much stuff now, no place to really put it, don't need to be buying more...but then I get imagining walking into some dark, dusty back room somewhere and seeing shelves filled with NOS black matrix round color tubes, maybe some 10BP4's. I have made some half-hearted attempts lately-stopped in an old tv repair shop when I was in Louisville "nothing tube here for years" and sent an email to a local supply house but I don't think anyone checks the mail. Should give them a call. Also should call the hardware store in the next town, a big old 3 story place downtown that sold Zenith tv's until fairly recently. Whats upstairs? Who knows? But the owner is a real grouch. Better force myself to ask. There is another fellow with a big garage full of sets, I've been in there, tons (literally) of solid state stuff, but who knows whats in there? He told me he has a Predicta somewhere. Hard guy to get a hold of, last time I stopped by he tried to talk me into a pyramid scheme he was involved in. Hmm...then there is that other guy, the one I talked to 12 years ago, who said I could have all the dead tv sets I wanted, he'd even lend me a trailer to tote them on, said "you probably only want the solid state stuff I have, right?" again, no telling what he's got...but jeez, what would I do with it all?