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FrizzleFried:
I took apart an old hard drive....I attached one magnet on the edge of one side of a 1" wood boring bit, the other on the other edge/other side of the wood boring bit. Attach to a cordless drill...fire it up...walk directly at the monitor...once there, move around a bit then walk back away from the monitor. It works OK...it's solved all my degaussing issues....but sometimes it takes a couple runs...and you have to pull the glass off the front of the cabinet to get as close to the monitor as possible (without BORING in to it of course)...
rockin_rick:
Good info Ken!
Could you clairify this:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on March 16, 2007, 11:48:58 am ---Actually you start 8 feet away from the monitor with the coil perpendicular to the monitor. As you slowly approach the monitor you slowly move the coil from perpendicular to parallel to the face of the monitor.
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Does the rotation from perpendicular (I'll call 0 degrees) to parallel (90 degrees) occur proportionally from 8 feet to 0 feet? IOW do you start turning as soon as you start approaching the monitor so that when you are 6 feet from it you should be 23 degrees turned, 4 feet 45 degrees turned, 2 feet 67 degrees, and then 1 inch 90 degrees?
Or do you start (at 0 degrees) moving closer until you are (say) 4 feet still at 0 degrees, then from 4 feet to 2 feet you do the rotation from 0 to 90 degrees, and then the approach from 2 feet to 0 feet is all at 90 degrees (parallel)?
I'm guessing the first, but would appreciate any insight...
Rick
diverdown:
I bought a $3.99 wand/coil off ebay.
Worked a treat. It turned both my monitors Red.
Then after a lot of trial and error, holding it 90 degrees/0degrees, on off, moving it in circles, ovals , squares, triangles, I got both my monitors the right colour.
I would love to be shown how to use it properly. I suggest buying a $5 off ebay and then spending the $30 to get a tech to do it in front of you and teach you.
Just take a look at the ebay one and make sure you get the 110V or 240V one that is right for your country. I was lucky my cab has a spare 110V output so I plug it into there as we work in 240V here. I believe if you put the wrong voltage through an electromagnetic coil it changes the magnetic flux profoundly.
Ken Layton:
--- Quote from: rockin_rick on March 17, 2007, 05:25:59 pm ---Good info Ken!
Could you clairify this:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on March 16, 2007, 11:48:58 am ---Actually you start 8 feet away from the monitor with the coil perpendicular to the monitor. As you slowly approach the monitor you slowly move the coil from perpendicular to parallel to the face of the monitor.
--- End quote ---
Does the rotation from perpendicular (I'll call 0 degrees) to parallel (90 degrees) occur proportionally from 8 feet to 0 feet? IOW do you start turning as soon as you start approaching the monitor so that when you are 6 feet from it you should be 23 degrees turned, 4 feet 45 degrees turned, 2 feet 67 degrees, and then 1 inch 90 degrees?
Or do you start (at 0 degrees) moving closer until you are (say) 4 feet still at 0 degrees, then from 4 feet to 2 feet you do the rotation from 0 to 90 degrees, and then the approach from 2 feet to 0 feet is all at 90 degrees (parallel)?
I'm guessing the first, but would appreciate any insight...
Rick
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The first.
rockin_rick:
Thank you, sir.