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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: IG-88 on December 20, 2010, 02:01:26 pm
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Hey all! I was just wondering if anyone had heard of these guys or used their services before?
I find it pretty cool that someone can even do this as a biz these days!
Maybe it could help someone out around here:
http://www.hawkeyepicturetube.com/index.html (http://www.hawkeyepicturetube.com/index.html)
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Hey all! I was just wondering if anyone had heard of these guys or used their services before?
I find it pretty cool that someone can even do this as a biz these days!
Maybe it could help someone out around here:
http://www.hawkeyepicturetube.com/index.html (http://www.hawkeyepicturetube.com/index.html)
They're out of business now.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
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Really? I just tried the 800# and it seemed to be working. Is it something recent that happened?
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http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/103016 (http://www.tvtechnology.com/article/103016)
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copypasta from a sub-article in the one mentioned...
While Avitt's Hawk-Eye operation is the last of the small independent CRT rebuilding businesses, there are at least two other U.S. companies that can rework cathode ray tubes—Video Display Corp. and Quest International. Both are fairly large companies in comparison to Hawk-Eye, neither rebuilds "garden variety" CRTs any longer, and both are sufficiently diversified so that they will continue to operate when the demand for CRTs disappears completely. Video Display has several operating divisions, and one of these is Southwest Vacuum Devices, which makes the replacement electron guns that Hawk-Eye has depended upon for some time. Bob Wolfkiel, general manager of the Southwest Vacuum operation says that constructing electron guns for home entertainment purposes is a declining part of their business.