Got my hands on a Sencore CR70!

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I got one of the engineers at work to dig up the old CRT rejuvenator! I knew there was one in the station buried somewhere, prolly hasn't been touched in 15-20 years or so.
So now I want to get the red gun to come back to life in my WG K6100. Blue and Green looked OK but red has always been very weak. Also, the overall brightness is not that great, I can't even seen retraces when I crank the brightness all the way up.
This particular K6100 came from a Tempest with over 140,000 plays and has nice Tempest burn-in but it still works.
Besides the mandatory "be carefull and read the manual" stuff, any suggestions for my first rejuvenation attempt?
The tube number is listed in the book, it appears straight foward...
The instruction manual is actually very short, it's mostly just a huge list of tube numbers.
 
I haven't used that model, or rejuved a vector yet, but

I would make sure your heater and power and everything is turned all the way to the left, or in off position prior to hooking it up to the tube. Don't want a stupid mistake like that.
 
Pretty easy to use. It definitley worked, I can see red again! I had no cutoff and the emissions test and rejuve button never moved the needle at all. I think that meant the tube has no contrast left, I still have to crank the brightness all the way but hey, it works!:D
 
Glad to hear, now if your want to be even more zealous with rejuvenations I urge you and all collectors to pick up a Sencore cr7000... The daddy of all rejuvenators... Get it with a manual and adaptor set that should come with it and you will be able to do virtually all crts and in the best quality fashion. Have not seen the little brother cr70 yet, sounds like it gets the job done though.

I might pick up a second one to loan out to customers with deposit.
 
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Glad to hear, now if your want to be even more zealous with rejuvenations I urge you and all collectors to pick up a Sencore cr700... The daddy of all rejuvenators... Get it with a manual and adaptor set that should come with it and you will be able to do virtually all crts and in the best quality fashion. Have not seen the little brother cr70 yet, sounds like it gets the job done though.

I might pick up a second one to loan out to customers with deposit.

Hear! Hear!. I love mine. The ability to test tubes is almost more important to me than rejuvination. I paid more for the CR7000 than if i got a BK but it is really nice. Each adapter serves as two. For example, socket 1 is on one side. Flip it over and its socket 2. Mine also has a Universal adaptor and a few blank adaptor sockets in case you want to make some custom sockets.

You can also sign up for Sencore Extranet. You just type the tube number in and it tells you what socket to use, Heater voltage, etc. No manual needed. This is very helpful for finding donor TVs for tube swaps also. Oh, and Sencore Extranet is free! If you have a CR70 or 7000. Go ahead and sign up for it.

http://www.sencore-e.com
 
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