[murphyv310]

Hi Dave.
It's unlikely that the glass blower chaps could help with this type of repair.
There has been some lengthy discussions recently about re-gunning tubes. The tube would need to be re-gunned and re-screened, the AW53-88 is not a hand blown tube anyway.
I am hoping to take tubes to RACS this year but so far the take up is too small to be viable, and if I dont get the numbers by the end of January I will pull the plug. A tube repair from RACS would be about 700 euros including the carriage from RACS to the UK, I was hoping for about £400 all in!