I need to find a 19'' tube, any tips?

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What should I be looking for as a suitable tube? Where should I measure to get the correct measurement? What chassis and frame should I look for? I have access to a g07 and a 4700 chassis pretty cheap. I'm taking a lcd out of a robocop in a converted Williams cab.
 
Go with the G07 or buy a rebuilt k7000
you want a 19" arcade CRT monitor horizontal mounting.
 
What should I be looking for as a suitable tube? Where should I measure to get the correct measurement? What chassis and frame should I look for? I have access to a g07 and a 4700 chassis pretty cheap. I'm taking a lcd out of a robocop in a converted Williams cab.

Buy a K7000 chassis and look for 19" TV's to scavenge their tubes. Many of them are drop-in swaps meaning you don't need to swap the yoke, just the yoke connector.

Every G07 I've attempted to tube swap has been a nightmare. The yokes never seem to fit quite right up against the TV tubes making convergence and purity hard/impossible to dial in.

A K4700 is a 13" chassis. So if you meant K4600 most likely you will have to do a yoke swap.
 
Yeah, it is a 4900. oops.

You might get lucky with a 4900 but probably would need to plan on a yoke swap. What you're trying to do is build a monitor. K7000 or the Kortek KTN2001 (I think that's the model) accept TV tubes very well. That's what all of my monitors are now.
 
Good replacement tubes for a K4900 or a G07 and nearly impossible to find. A K7000 is probably your best choice. Most 19 inch TV's have drop in replacement tubes for the K7000. They can be found at Thrift Stores, Yard sales and Ewaste places for cheap or free. Here's a pic of the K7000 mounting frame you need to bolt right into a Williams cab.
 

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And don't ignore "21 inch" or "20 inch" TV's either. For the longest time, the Sylvania TV my parents bought me back in 1992 was labeled as a 21" TV. When I opened up the case to see what tube was inside, I found that it was a 19" tube. So don't ignore the slightly larger advertised ones. They might just be 19"

BTW, the monitor in my avatar is one I built from a TV Tube and a K7000 chassis I got from a KLOVer here. Sadly, that tube died when the neck got nicked and the vacuum died. Still was able to get another free tube and plop it in. No yoke/ring changes at all.
 
Yeah I'ma need to buy a k7000 chassis soon I want one real bad I have an nos tube
 
slightly off topic but I went to my county dump today to drop of some recyclables, they had 2 19" tvs there, I so wanted to take them but they have a big sign warning not to take anything dropped off for recycling claiming they is video recording and they prosecute and ban you from the dump.

I'm not sure why as you'd be saving them money (recycling costs) and potentially using something that's going to basically be trashed. my only though is that maybe they are afraid of someone taking a TV and it being broken and burning down a house or shocking and hurting someone and maybe a legal/insurance thing I don' know. anyway good luck in your attempts!
 
slightly off topic but I went to my county dump today to drop of some recyclables, they had 2 19" tvs there, I so wanted to take them but they have a big sign warning not to take anything dropped off for recycling claiming they is video recording and they prosecute and ban you from the dump.

I'm not sure why as you'd be saving them money (recycling costs) and potentially using something that's going to basically be trashed. my only though is that maybe they are afraid of someone taking a TV and it being broken and burning down a house or shocking and hurting someone and maybe a legal/insurance thing I don' know. anyway good luck in your attempts!

They may sell what they don't recycle.
 
slightly off topic but I went to my county dump today to drop of some recyclables, they had 2 19" tvs there, I so wanted to take them but they have a big sign warning not to take anything dropped off for recycling claiming they is video recording and they prosecute and ban you from the dump.

I'm not sure why as you'd be saving them money (recycling costs) and potentially using something that's going to basically be trashed. my only though is that maybe they are afraid of someone taking a TV and it being broken and burning down a house or shocking and hurting someone and maybe a legal/insurance thing I don' know. anyway good luck in your attempts!

you shoulda brought tools and asked if you can remove the fronts with the tubes attatched with no electronics.
just pull the yolk and deguass wire plugs and cut the rest off.
 
slightly off topic but I went to my county dump today to drop of some recyclables, they had 2 19" tvs there, I so wanted to take them but they have a big sign warning not to take anything dropped off for recycling claiming they is video recording and they prosecute and ban you from the dump.

I'm not sure why as you'd be saving them money (recycling costs) and potentially using something that's going to basically be trashed. my only though is that maybe they are afraid of someone taking a TV and it being broken and burning down a house or shocking and hurting someone and maybe a legal/insurance thing I don' know. anyway good luck in your attempts!

Similar situation here. They seem to have forgotten the old "reduce, REUSE, recycle" motto.
 
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