What's up with all these BUSTED CRTs ???

[kx250rider]

This must be the 10th TV on eBay lately with a busted tube... In all the years I have been in TVs, I never ran into so MANY snapped necks. Is this some kind of a communist plot ???

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Zenith-C...QQcmdZViewItem

Charles

[daro]

Bidding starts at $99 for a set with a busted CRT, She is gonna need a lot of work + a rebuilt CRT to get it going again.

[dtuomi]

Perhaps they're just saving the trouble of having it happen during shipping.

David

[Randy Bassham]

That's the exact set that I hauled home from Denver last month. Mine doesn't have all that "Patina" and I got it for $40.00. It's uses the 22T20 chassis with a pair of 5U4's and push pull 6AQ5's for audio output. I'm missing the back if anyone knows of one laying around.

[Eric H]

That looks exactly like the Flash Matic but without the remote parts.

The sellers listing is incredibly pompus.

"What is patina? If an object is described as having a fine patina it's usually meant as a compliment. If something is said to lack patina, it usually means the object lacks character. Patina is everything that happens to an object over the course of time."

But hey, they're a "Top 1000 Reviewer" so what do I know.

[andy]

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[matt_s78mn]

Originally Posted by andy

I wonder if the broken CRT counts as patina?

He makes the water ring stain on top sound like a feature.

That would make my CTC-31 a "Deluxe" model then - It came not only with water ring stains, but it has the very rare cigarette burn option. Perhaps I should put it on ebay and be sure overuse the word "rare" in the description. :P

[Sandy G]

That one's CRT has been busted so long looks like all the phosphorus has flaked off the inside of the screen...Even if it DIDN'T have a busted CRT, anyone else think it's just a bit, well, "Fugly" anyhow...? No disrespect intended, Randy...

[David Roper]

A blonde set very similar to the one in the auction, but complete with intact CRT, spilled out of John Horrock's van at the last ETF convention (anybody who's ever attendended is familiar with the way they just keep coming like clowns out of a clown car ). I'm actually fond of that style mask and would like to have one of these, but never have the luck to run across one in the plainer style (to me, more attractive) cabinet.

[Tubejunke]

Originally Posted by Kaye-Halbert TV

This must be the 10th TV on eBay lately with a busted tube... In all the years I have been in TVs, I never ran into so MANY snapped necks. Is this some kind of a communist plot
Charles

I dont know about ebay but someone is grabbing every gun/yoke you can find when TV's get set off at the dump. I NEVER saw this until all the factories closed down and all the work went away. Now a dumpsite is like a trading post of sorts. Rarely can you drop off something without seeing at least one guy loading his truck. I think some make a living off of scrap metal which is why all the crts are now broken. I think what they want is the copper from the yoke so I believe they just snap the whole gun and everything off. Can't see any other reason why someone would want EVERY one of them. I saw 4 sets of various age tonight. All snapped necks....

Darn, wouldnt we all feel stupid if there was gold or silver in the electron guns?

[3Guncolor]

The price of copper is way way up bet thats why they are after the yokes.

[blue_lateral]

I think people just dont know how to haul them. They throw them in the back of a truck, not face down or anything, with all the other crap thay bought at the estate. Then it's on ebay with a broken tube and "It works but I don't have an antenna"

[Bobby Brady]

I am sure some people are taking them for copper.
I have a hard time not hating those poop for brains guys that think on such a small scale. All the things to do in the world and they want to destroy good things for 2 cents worth of raw material. Even a roundie color yoke probably only has like 25 cents worth of copper if you took it to the scrapper.
I am confronted with similar dumdums so much that I appreciate this forum all the more as everybody on here is at least trying to learn something constructive aside from helping others in many ways.
I am trying to be more considerate towards the ignorant people in the world but it is so hard because they are behind every problem this world has.

[kx250rider]

They're climbing telephone poles out here in the California desert, CUTTING AND STEALING the cables for copper!!!!!!!! Once in awhile a dead guy is seen at the base of a pole with both arms burned off. If they go to that extreme, it's no wonder they go to the dump and bust the yokes off old TVs. An article in the paper last year when we had the Ventura County fire, said the copper guys were right on the heels of the firemen to pick up all the wire that had been on burnt poles. It was a bonanza for them, because the insulation was already off thanks to the fire, so they could sell it for more bare!

If I had nothing but money and time, I'd put out an ad campaign to all metal recyclers, city dumps, and thrift stores... I wouldn't quote collector prices, but I would "guarantee to pay much much more than scrap value" for certain very old TVs.

Charles

[Sandy G]

The REAL money is getting the palladium out of catalytic converters in 1975-and-later cars...