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<div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></FONT>With the recent talk about tubes (Fire Bottles) in VTR's it reminded me of some experience I had with the last of the CBS VR-2000's.</div>
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<div>Since I was the only person maintaining them and occasionally operating them (The regular ops wouldn't go near them) I thought I would make life a little easier for myself.</div>
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<div>First I removed the side panels so I could get into them easier, even though they were between 2 racks. I did some work on them and came back a few days later and the panels were gone. Someone stole them. I never found them in the following years. But that is OK, it just made it easier to clean, etc. them.</div>
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<div>I figured that since there would be no more recordings made on them, I pulled out all of the tubes in the RAPA's. This was an all day job because of all the screws Ampex put in them.</div>
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<div>Now the whole RAPA housing was nice and cool and I could get rid of the fan on top of it, thereby not pulling schmutz thru it and no need to change the filter under it.</div>
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<div>I then pulled out the AFA audio keying mods which were there, no need to keep them around either.</div>
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<div>I also wanted to eliminate the Editor, Editec and VHO, but didn't have the "Dummy Plug" which came with the machine which would enable me to do so. I found I could just pull the boards out of the Editor, but had to leave the chassis in and I had to leave the boards in the Editec, but I have saved some heat in the machine to some degree.</div>
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<div>I also pulled out the full erase chassis, just to make more room.</div>
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<div>While I was at it I went across the street to Archives and pulled the record board out of the RAPA on the AVR-1's, pulled the erase chassis and the boards out of the time code reader and killed the power supply for the Nixie display.</div>
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<div>I was going to jumper out all of those IBM relays behind the control panel in the AVR-1's since there is no need for remote,so I could throw them out also, as they tend to be a constant problem, there were no spares, but ran out of time, bur recommended it be done, I'm sure the guys jumped right into it. (Right!)</div>
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<div>George Keller<br>
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