CRT Regunning

That's so fascinating! Imagine if we had this kind of technology readily available! Many tubes would've been saved.
 
Awesome indeed!

Favorite part:
When they seal the neck to the pins frame. I always wondered how they did that.
And they used one of the ways I had imagined: fire + compressed air (the flame's pressure) + gravity.

Very cool!
 
very cool, thanks for sharing... I wish they included the point when scoring the glass let the pressure rush in and/or how they control it (or if they had already de-vacuumized it somehow?)
 
Then you have to consider most necked tubes look like someone sprayed black crap in a star pattern over the mask. I wonder how they fix that?
 
This is truly awesome to watch. Thanks for sharing, Mark. The unemotional "yay" at 5:56 is a very German reaction. :) Having been raised by a German mother, I am allowed to joke about this.
 
If CRT's ever get to the point where they are truly difficult to get, you're going to see more people and projects pop up around being able to save more of them in new ways, and use CRT's that were once thought to be unusable for arcade purposes. The well is far from tapped. You can watch people on youtube who make vacuum tubes from scratch. It takes specialized tools and skills. But there's plenty of preservation tech that exists outside of this hobby at this moment.

Part of what a lot of people do in this hobby is BRING that technology into the hobby, for the purposes of preservation. That's why there are more repro parts now more than ever. Chips, complete joysticks, artwork, entire circuitboards, etc.

Name one vintage collectible hobby that disappeared because nobody could recreate parts for it.
 
100% As long as there is value to the collection/collectors, there will be supply.

When there is no value, that's when/if it dies.

Really, there are folks that collect Palm Pilots, and replacement parts are readily available.... not kidding.
 
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