Electrohome G05801 ground strap

[brickpolisher]

I just picked up a 1979 Atari Asteroids arcade. Other than a couple of on-location operator fixes, it looks to be completely original. I'm planning on doing a cap kit to fix it up a bit.

But I noticed that the ground strap is disconnected and someone exposed a point in the gray wire on the neck hardness.  Should I try to find some springs and reconnect that strap to the tube... or is there some sneaky reason they disconnected it?

[jennifer]

My guess is someone robbed the parts for another monitor, or put a used tube in there and did a quick fix for ground. The way it is is not right, the chassis is grounded but the tube itself not so much...You can probibally just grab what you need from a comparable television.