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Title: Our tubes may not be dead yet! Post by: P-feif on July 16, 2014, 09:45:33 pm Since I'm worried that my tube may still be bad after rebuilding my monitor (haven't tried it yet) a friend of mine at work told me about a place called Hawkeye Picture Tube that rebuilds picture tubes. I started to look into them only to find that they closed a few years ago and there is no place left that does this sort of work..... HOWEVER! I also found that a museum is building a room for and has the funds to buy all the equiptment from Hawkeye and it sounds like they may start rebuilding picture tubes for the public. I found this link. I hope is helps someone. Let's all hope this project comes to life real soon.
http://www.earlytelevision.org/crt_project.html Title: Re: Our tubes may not be dead yet! Post by: darkcat1 on July 17, 2014, 08:29:03 am yeah but they are really interested in vintage TVs. I wonder what would happen if we asked them about arcade monitors?
Title: Re: Our tubes may not be dead yet! Post by: atariforever2002 on July 17, 2014, 12:34:26 pm From what I heard, they are charging crazy outlandishly high prices. Like in the thousands per unit...
Title: Re: Our tubes may not be dead yet! Post by: P-feif on July 17, 2014, 03:25:37 pm Well let's hope that's not the case. These old picture tubes won't last forever and the LCD's suck.
Title: Re: Our tubes may not be dead yet! Post by: iankellogg on July 17, 2014, 09:55:49 pm I don't think there is a single display technology that will be able to mimic how a CRT works and that is a real shame.
It also sucks there will never be enough of a demand to have a glass company do a run of new tubes. |