>>278485
I know that this is probably an insane thing to suggest, but if you happen to not have an attachment to your job, see if there are any electronics recycling facilities near you. I ended up working for one, and I was given free reign to take home whatever I wanted, as long as I kept it and didn't try to resell it like a nigger. I have two Sony BVMs, a Dell Trinitron P1110, and a number of other consumer CRTs - all Trins, except for one smaller JVC. The unfortunate thing is that because they're all from dumps, they've been banged around in transport. There's a shitload of rose tinted glasses in here, and while I obviously agree with all of the upsides of CRT (motion clarity, blacks, contrast, etc) nobody seems to want to remember having to tune your geometry, convergence, lamp hours, and so on. Anything you get your hands on is very, very likely to have been tossed around and left on for a bajillion lamp hours, leaving the screens dim, seeing the individual R/G/B photons due to shit convergence, warped geometry, ghosting due to image smear from lamp hours (removing one of the best benefits) and so forth, and there's only so much you can adjust in the hidden software settings before you need to open the fucker up and physically tune the box, and I don't have the balls to poke my fingers around capacitors with that much juice running through them. Once you get your hands on one, you might be disappointed to remember that it is in fact 2025, and these devices degrade like any other mechanical device.
My only other suggestion for any anons serious about trying to get their fingers on a BVM is to reach out to your small local access TV channels. You can typically find contact information on their webpage, and when I reached out locally, I did come up short but I still got prompt replies. Don't forget to see if local high schools or colleges also run their own television channels. Odds for that are growing slimmer each year, but at least you know that you will generally be reaching out to other people who are very interested in this tech and will receive your inquiries positively. Most small local access channels don't have HR cunts, you'd likely just be emailing another anon who, at worst, will also lament that they don't have them any more.
>>278488
I agree, in fact if you're looking to nostalgiabait yourself, I would more strongly recommend a consumer CRT over a BVM. However...
>an appropriate size for your battlestation
they don't make furniture like they used to, there is no appropriate size, you will almost certainly require special attention. My P1110 is ~60 lbs iirc.