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Monitor Bezel question...
Fozzy The Bear:
--- Quote from: ZeroPoint on April 25, 2007, 03:20:40 am ---You can use small magnets or probably a magnetic tape would be best. Just add flat metal pieces on your cabinet and a few magnetic tape strips on your bezel. The magnetic field is so small that you won't have to worry about your monitor. Just don't stick them directly on it.
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NO WAY!!!!! a magnetic field even from small magnets around the TV or Monitor like that WILL cause Gauss problems. You will end up with colour distortions and potential permanent damage to the monitor. The only thing that is certain about your reply is that you have either never done this, or understand very little about how monitors work.
Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Zebidee:
I just used black gaffa tape, or cloth tape, (I think in the US it gets called duct tape), and I used a permanent marker to black any visible edge parts or the tape. Note that this tape will leave a mark on the bezel if you remove it later, but it can be cleaned off (assuming your bezel is not made of cardboard or similar).
Note that everything in the monitor well should be black (except perhaps your artwork), and then it is amazing what you can get away with because the light simply has nothing to reflect off.
ZeroPoint:
Seriously, Julian...
Using magnetic tape will have no influence on the shadowmask inside the crt so long, as I mentioned, you don't stick it directly on the glass. Even if you do there are about 1/2 inch to the shadowmask behind the phospors. The hole reason for degaussing a tv is actually to compensate for the earths magnetic field. This field is much stronger than the field of any magnetic tape (at normal distance) I have ever seen. Anyway, how do you think the speakers in a TV set works. They are very close and have pretty strong magnets. Some are not even shielded.
Do not get me wrong here. I agree that "strong" magnets can disturbe the magnetic balance inside the crt and do permanent damage. But NO WAY a magnetic tape. ::)
golfboyusa:
can you post a picture of the work in progress? I usually cut a 1x2 the width of the cabinet. Then I cut a slot in the 1x2 along the whole width. Place the bottom edge of the bezel in that slot and fix the 1x2 into place once you are happy where it's at. I do it a little differently for the top half, I'll take the wood piece that I use for my speakers and cut a slot in the bottom edge lenthwise. The top of the bezel slides right in there and disappears! I get a very clean look. There is a nailer piece behind the speakers which allows everythng to stay in place. I've never had to use velcro or tape as the bezel sits perfectly flat on the screen.
Sorry for the goofy picture, but the flash did a good job over exposing my work.
Nostalgia:
Lots of awesome info here. Thanks to all. Im just going to keep it simple and use velcro. I think it will work just find. Im kinda iffy on using magnets, regarless of the size, near the monitor. But thanks none the less! :applaud: