Re: Amplifone tube.

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999 09:06:39 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

> I actually have a WG 61xx with an amplifone tube. The tubes for the
>amplifone and the WG are NOT the same. The main diference is that the wg
>is a 100 degree tube and the amplifone is 90 degree tube. The G08 and WG
>color vector monitors use the same tube. An amplifone tube will work in
>a WG chasis if you use the amplifone yoke. The neck board fits the same.
I took a look at this and the WG neck board WILL NOT FIT on an Amplifone with a
Rauland tube on it. If what Dave said is true then you must have one of the low
res tubes 19VJTP22. Maybe this tube has the same type of neck socket the WG tube
has?

>The amplifone tube is longer than a WG tube so it sticks out from the
>chasis a bit making it very easy to break the neck when moving the
>monitor around. This swap will fix the bowing effect on SW and MH.
>
> I was told that the 90 degree tube used for amplifone vector monitors
>is the same tube used in later atari (WG) medium res monitors.
>
>Jason Milsom
>
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Received on Sun Oct 10 15:42:12 1999