21FBP22 rebuilds moving to PA

[jstout66]

Charlie, I hear ya! I sure miss the days when you could call a distributor and get whatever picture tubes you needed. I remember a time when our RCA supplier had a sale on 25XP22's for $29.99 I remember as late as 1981, you could get 21FJP22's for $75.00 and that was for a Sylvania tube! Electronics sure have become a throwaway item. I had a recent problem with something new. I got a Toshiba 13" TV/DVD combo for my office. It saw light use and just went dead after 3 months. I took the back off to see if it was something simple (it wasn't) and noticed that the picture tube was an "Orion" from China. WTH??? Are makers not even using good tubes anymore? I thought that set would have a Toshiba "Blackstripe" brand. Anyway... I took the set back and got a new one. Took it out of the box and the tv worked, but the DVD portion was dead. I took it back and just got my money back. I was laughing tho when it didn't work because I could hear my late grandpa yelling and telling me "that's what you get for getting a combo unit!" When we had the shop he did NOT believe in combo anything at ALL!