I found one! A tube for a 19k7000!

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It turns out that my neck of the woods here is a CRT desert, but I finally found a tube that's compatible with the 19 inch k7000. Unfortunately it's a 20 inch so I don't know if it will fit the frame that the 80s Williams cabinets used.

Any advice on how to mount a CRT that won't fit into the cabinets original hardware?


P.s. the inductance readings for this tube are as follows:

1.9 mH Horizontal
18.8 mH Vertical
Both measured at 1 kHz.
 

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Probably will not fit an existing frame.
Do you have an original cabinet with no monitor?

Maybe you can find a recycling center somewhere within reasonable driving distance if tubes aren't popping up on fb marketplace, craigslist, etc?
You could contact them and ask about a discarded 19" TV that is still whole and make your life a lot easier.

I've had to build frankenmonitors where I live too but it is a bumpy road to travel.
Happy to offer help where I can!
 
Probably will not fit an existing frame.
Do you have an original cabinet with no monitor?

Maybe you can find a recycling center somewhere within reasonable driving distance if tubes aren't popping up on fb marketplace, craigslist, etc?
You could contact them and ask about a discarded 19" TV that is still whole and make your life a lot easier.

I've had to build frankenmonitors where I live too but it is a bumpy road to travel.
Happy to offer help where I can!
Yes, the cabinet is original but the CRT is came with was necked.

I did find a recycling center that has been good to me, but they haven't had many CRTs come in this year. Marketplace has even fewer. They said that last year they have at least one a day come in. Now it's only once in a while, any most are twenty something in size.

I'm going to try to squeeze it in somehow.
 
If you get a good piece of 3/4" plywood you can make what you need and not drastically alter the cabinet.
I can direct you to a bunch of solutions I've come up with if you want.
Would still look for a 19" tube to swap that yoke to though.
What chassis do you have there?
 
If you get a good piece of 3/4" plywood you can make what you need and not drastically alter the cabinet.
I can direct you to a bunch of solutions I've come up with if you want.
Would still look for a 19" tube to swap that yoke to though.
What chassis do you have there?
The donor is a Panasonic with a 29mm neck. I only have the smaller yoke that came with the k7000, but the yoke original to the Panasonic tube is playing nice with k7000.
 
The particular tube becomes almost irrelevant as long as the yoke and neckboard fit.
I went for a year struggling in looking for compatible tubes and then suddenly a bunch appeared.
Keep at it and they will materialize.

The key to good swapping is
-Keep the original yoke with the chassis
-Keep the adjustment rings with the tube, and mark well their position on the neck and relative to each other so you can reposition them exactly as they were.
 
The donor is a Panasonic with a 29mm neck. I only have the smaller yoke that came with the k7000, but the yoke original to the Panasonic tube is playing nice with k7000.
k7000's will play nice with a tiger, great chassis very flexible! Glad you had great results!
 
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