They were right. Tube swaps arent hard at all!

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In fact, it was fun! Keep the yolk with the chassis and the rings with the tube. I might do this more often! Tube swapping that is...not breaking tube necks, which I hope never happens again.
 

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Where are you getting the tubes from? Do they have to be old 80's 19" TVs?

My Elevator Actions is screaming for a tube swap.

Luckily the Defender I just picked up had the same model tube with a blown chassis that I wasnt even gonna attempt to repair. If it is a G07, you can use nearly any type of 19" Panasonic tv, or just be gutsy and buy a cheap one and hope the pins are the same layout and the tube neck is the same width. In this case, they were 10-pin necks with a 29mm neck. This is a decent cross reference site: http://www.vidiot.ca/montube.php
 
Luckily the Defender I just picked up had the same model tube with a blown chassis that I wasnt even gonna attempt to repair. If it is a G07, you can use nearly any type of 19" Panasonic tv, or just be gutsy and buy a cheap one and hope the pins are the same layout and the tube neck is the same width. In this case, they were 10-pin necks with a 29mm neck. This is a decent cross reference site: http://www.vidiot.ca/montube.php

According to that site I can use the same tube for a G07 as I can for my Med res monitor. Sweet! Now, to find spare 19" tvs.
 
Doesn't seem hard to do a tube swap, seems hard to find the correct tube....although by the website it seems most common is the 10pin 29mm neck.
 
Are those shots of the Centipede the 'before' or the 'after' picture?

Fair amount of Defender burn-in there. Have no fear- if you leave Centipede on long enough, it'll be Defender AND Centipede burn...

K
 
I was just going to do a swap with a TV tube this past weekend and had a 1980 TV with a beautiful brite white tube.

The problem was when I took it apart, there were no mounting ears on the frickin tube, it was held in place in the TV with rubber isolators in the plastic front of the set. To add to the trouble, the neck had 2 additional pins so it wouldn't accept a CR-23 style socket.

Oh well, I kept it for another day anyway :-(

Not to rain on the parade, usually tube swaps are great.
 
How do you pull the yoke off past the purity rings? Do the purity rings have to come off too?
 
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