Hello Flex297, Yes, it’s me, Ed Wilcox. Working in the NV Industry for close to 20 years now and seeing close to a thousand tubes, I do see strange things most people never see. Like, plastic lenses used in the lens assemblies of the PVS-5A, two step fiber optics for the photocathode of the MX-9916 tube used in some of the original AN/PVS-5 that enabled the user to see near and far just by looking up or down. A PVS-14 tube having the full sliver bullet configuration. A three number set part number on a power supply used in an Autogated tube making a whining noise that could only be heard with a stethoscope. The list goes on…
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