Obtaining FREE 19" tubes through craigslist.

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I placed an ad two days ago and so far I've had 6 responses. :D

I just wanted to thank the folks here who mentioned this as a way to get 19" tubes. I can't believe how happy people are to get rid of their old televisions. They don't really understand that I'm only interested in the tube... they have to show that it works and such so I just go along. :)

Thanks again guys!
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I read the same thing in a thread a couple days ago. Is there a list of which 19" TVs have the G07 tube in them?
 
I placed an ad two days ago and so far I've had 6 responses. :D

I just wanted to thank the folks here who mentioned this as a way to get 19" tubes. I can't believe how happy people are to get rid of their old televisions. They don't really understand that I'm only interested in the tube... they have to show that it works and such so I just go along. :)

Thanks again guys!
cheers.gif

Hopefully you can use all the tubes... Otherwise your building up quite the e-waste supply. ;)
 
I live pretty close to our local recycling drop off so getting rid of the unusable ones shouldn't be a problem. ;)
 
Damn, now I know where to go next time I need a tube.

-Also, I hear good things about Freecycle.
 
I would like to know this as well.
Also WG ones as well.

WGs and GO7s have the same pinout so you can swap the tuebs in say a wg4900 and a GO7. The yokes are of course different. It is also a common pinout in 1980s color TVs.
 
Sure as long as the pinout matches.


technically though even if the pinout doesnt match couldnt you just switch wires to make it work? As long as you had a schematic for the donor monitor and knew where everything plugs in?
 
The pinout he is referring to is the tube neck. You may be abe to modify your chassis to work with a different neck but it would just be easier to find one that fits. I have found the majority of 80's and 90's tubes match the 10 pin neck commonly used on many WG chassis. Some of these tubes have the 8 pin (narrow neck) which were used on some of the WGK7000 series chassis.
 
The pinout he is referring to is the tube neck. You may be abe to modify your chassis to work with a different neck but it would just be easier to find one that fits. I have found the majority of 80's and 90's tubes match the 10 pin neck commonly used on many WG chassis. Some of these tubes have the 8 pin (narrow neck) which were used on some of the WGK7000 series chassis.


good info. You in the military?
 
The pinout he is referring to is the tube neck. You may be abe to modify your chassis to work with a different neck but it would just be easier to find one that fits. I have found the majority of 80's and 90's tubes match the 10 pin neck commonly used on many WG chassis. Some of these tubes have the 8 pin (narrow neck) which were used on some of the WGK7000 series chassis.

I've picked up 5 TV's in the past two months, and none had the right neck. One from 75 had a HUGE neck. The others were all "narrow" neck.
Are all the K7000 really a narrow neck? Now I will have to check the TV's again.
 
I've picked up 5 TV's in the past two months, and none had the right neck. One from 75 had a HUGE neck. The others were all "narrow" neck.
Are all the K7000 really a narrow neck? Now I will have to check the TV's again.


No, not all of the K7000's are narrow neck, but some of them are. Maybe I have been lucky, I have only found two monitors that were completely useless, one was a 25" with a bizarre neck and the other was a 13" that uses the CR31 adaptor. In fact, this one may not be useless but I don't have a chassis I can use with it. I have torn apart about 30 TV's so far...
 
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