Check this CRT tester a found at a electronics store near my office!

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Check this CRT tester a found at a electronics store near my office!

The store is awesome been around since the 50's they sell everything even EPROMs!
 

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You plug the neck of the monitor into one of those connectors. I imagine that those connectors pull out of the panel, it sure would be hard to plug the tube in and hold it with out breaking the tube.
 
That is a tester for most all types of vacuum tubes as found in radios, HI-FI equipment, guitar amps, TV's etc from the 1930's up until now. I have several similar testers. I doubt it will also test CRTs... but it might.
 
I remember seeing one of those from BITD. Must have been in the early 70's.
 
Yeah, I suspect it was for testing the vacuum tubes that they used on early TV chassis, rather than the CRT itself.

The local old electronics shop has a similar machine in the back corner, as well as thousands of NOS and pulled tubed.
 
That must be what my dad talks about all the time. He has told me when he was gounger you just took the tube out of you t.v or radio and went to the store and tested it with a machine they had.
 
and I was looking forward to seeing you make a video where you hold a Tube and shove the neck of the yoke into the top of that tester...
 
This is really kind of freaky for me -- it's dredged up something I hadn't thought about since I was a little kid.
 
A guy I work with has been working on TVs for over 40 years. He has a setup similar to that. He also has a tube caddy that he used to lug around while doing service calls BITD.
 
They had one of those in Thrifty Drug right up to when I worked there back in the late 1980's...

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