What a NOS 6100 tube looks like...

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Got this from an operator. Thought it was interesting that he had what looked like was the original box for it or at least a nice box for a tube. I took it out to assemble a 6100 and began to realize that this thing looks like it's never been used. I started peeling off the protective coating and it struck me this is new....Doh !

The last pic is after I put it in a used frame.


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Decisions, decisions; now which of your games is deserving of such a wonderful gift?
 
No kidding, wondering what machine I have that is worthy. Tempest has an Amplifone in it, so does Star Wars, that leaves Space Duel. Don't really have any other color vectors that I want on my list. Maybe I should just $ell it :)
 
Wow! friggin awesome! That's one hell of a find there! Why can't I get that lucky!!

I'm still hoping to find that op that has a shelf full of 25" amplifone's sitting around NIB. I know it's out there, somewhere! :)
 
Seems like the purist collector would put the NOS WG6100 in the Tempest considering the Atari history linking the two together.
I have seen Space Duel machines with Amplifones stock so that would make more historical sense also to me.

Did it come with yoke/rings intact and factory convergence?
 
Damn, my dream is shattered. Oh well.

It's just a bare tube but I have a yoke and rings for it. I am thinking of putting it in the Tempest. I still might sell it though.

edit: I am glad you noticed that so I didn't try and sell it like a NOS tube like a dumb@ss
 
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Damn, my dream is shattered. Oh well.

It's just a bare tube but I have a yoke and rings for it. I am thinking of putting it in the Tempest. I still might sell it though.

edit: I am glad you noticed that so I didn't try and sell it like a NOS tube like a dumb@ss

I sent you a PM if you decide to sell
 
True, it looks refurbished......but it appears to have a date of 10-2- 1982 on that same label. Could have had faulty guns from the factory and they had to slap that label on there when it wa sent back and redistributed when repaired. I would not be surprised if that tube had never been used.
 
True, it looks refurbished......but it appears to have a date of 10-2- 1982 on that same label. Could have had faulty guns from the factory and they had to slap that label on there when it wa sent back and redistributed when repaired. I would not be surprised if that tube had never been used.

I agree, that could very well be true. I just happened to notice that the tube number was handwritten which I found odd plus I never heard of that tube brand before and then I noticed that printed remark. As mentioned still great to have !
 
It may be a rebuild, but it's still "new", in the sense that it will have perfect emissions. Provided, of course, that it's a *good* rebuild.

Rebuilt picture tubes used to be pretty common. Unfortunately, there is nobody left rebuilding them any more. Hawkeye might have been the last.

The thing that goes in most tubes is the gun assembly - the cathodes no longer emit enough electrons, and they get dim. Either that, or the gun fails or shorts. Screen burn is rather unique to video game and computer applications, however. In normal television use, it's pretty rare to wear out the phosphors or burn them. On color tubes, screen burn renders the tube unfit for a rebuild - there is no way to recoat the face of the glass with new phosphors after it's been assembled. Monochrome tubes can be recoated.

The basic process of a picture tube rebuild is to carefully let the tube up to air, cut the neck off, join a new neck and gun assembly on, pump it down/bake it, and seal it up.

So, it has no burn because nobody is going to rebuild a burnt tube. Also, remember that there are more applications for that tube than just WG6100 arcade monitors, it was used in some television sets as well. And, on top of that, there's no telling if the bell/face on that tube started life as a 19VLUP22 - it could theoretically have been some other 100 degree tube in a television set, which was rebuilt with the neck/gun assembly to make it a 19VLUP22.

-Ian
 
And, on top of that, there's no telling if the bell/face on that tube started life as a 19VLUP22 - it could theoretically have been some other 100 degree tube in a television set, which was rebuilt with the neck/gun assembly to make it a 19VLUP22.

-Ian

That's exactly what it is. A Magnavox television tube that was rebuilt into a 19VLUP22. Magna-Color was a Magnavox television patent, plus it came with a Magnavox warranty card ;)

Considering the no-burn though, who cares? It's beautiful. Only problem I see is convergence - I don't think we even have a single member who's ever fully converged a tube from zero. Dez would be closest. That's why all the blank Amp tubes keep recircling the collecting community :D
 
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