Nothing felt as good as having a gamma-ray gun pointed directly at your face.
Would have weighed a ton. Barely any plastic, solid wood through out. Electrical components that weren’t miniaturized yet.
Stuff was HEAVY back then. More than you’d think.
Used the total power of a modern household, but you could FIX it! Dad and I took a few trips to the grocery store to test and buy new tubes. If dad couldn’t hack it, call the repair guy. Imagine it being cheaper to have a man come to your house a few times than to buy a new TV.
The heat from the electron gun vaporizes the liquor next to the vacuum tube which gets everyone just a little leveled out
These were from the seventies which means you levelled out with the coke mirror on the TV.
That sounds perfectly DIY-able to me.
I got an old console tv, gutted it, and fit a cheap 32in in it. Doesn’t have that dome effect but it feels amazing to play n64 and Xbox on.
Also this shit was heavier than a collapsed sun.
