mjenison
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Kinda makes me wish I had kept all those necked WG6100 tubes...
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That shit made me nervous... no big deal to those guys though.
One method for accomplishing this is demonstrated in this video starting at 7:20very 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?)
One method for accomplishing this is demonstrated in this video starting at 7:20
Yeah. No. I'll pass on that.That made you nervous? Wait until you see a guy lugging a big heavy CRT around by its neck.
Just grab it and go for it!![]()
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.