[NJARC] Vintage Tektronix videos

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Dave, interesting video.
My first professional position after college was at RCA Labs in the early 1980's.  There was only one gentleman still working on next generation CRT electron guns at that time.  He was in the main building basement not far from the Sarnoff Library.  He build CRT electron gun assemblies using the same style glass lathe shown in the video and tested them in an adjacent room where there were also a couple of resistance welders used for gun assembly.
Next to his test setup was a 55 gallon barrel full of the guns he had made and tested over the years.  So he fabricated, built, tested and discarded his handiwork on a monthly basis,  Truly a one man show!
When I returned to Princeton in the early 1990's, RCA Labs had been replaced by the Sarnoff Corporation and the lone CRT worker had evidently retired, but the lathe, welders and test set were still there, IIRC.
The enclosed photo is of two CRT electron gun examples from that barrel.  Sorry about the shadows, if there is any interest, I can probably do a better job on the photo when the sun is out.Jim

      From: David Sica <dave.sica at njarc.org>
 To: "njarc at mailman.qth.net" <njarc at mailman.qth.net> 
 Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 2:51 PM
 Subject: [NJARC] Vintage Tektronix videos
   
>From the Vintage TEK Museum http://www.vintagetek.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMh66Lh4AQrkVBpN2N5RZuA/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd
I found this one about making Tek oscilloscope tubes particularly interesting: https://youtu.be/q5dhfhMItQc
-- Dave Sica


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