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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Don on January 24, 2016, 03:00:30 pm
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I am trying to decase a 21" PC CRT monitor for my arcade build but i'm having some difficulties. I have removed the back and the stand but I cannot get the front bezel off. It was attached to the chassis by four corner bolts which I have removed, but it is still being attached somewhere around the front control buttons area.
Does anyone have experience decasing a PC CRT? And was there some extra attachment I cannot see at the front controls?
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Wow, that's a hell of an encasement. I'm assuming that metal grid is pretending to be a Faraday Cage to keep EMF emissions down. Can't help ya here, just commenting and subbing cause I wanna use a PC CRT in my cocktail.
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They're all different. Just look around carefully for smaller screws or cables. Do not simply yank it off - you might risk breaking the controller board on the front of the monitor.
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Look for the service manual on Google. You can easily find the instructions to decase most modern monitors on the interwebs (as I learned myself trying to fix a Trinitron unit not so long ago).
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I have decased 2 19" monitors and not had to deal with that big metal cage. I think it is typical for 21" monitors to have those. I recently picked up a 21" and if I use it, I probably won't bother decasing it. I will probably make a decent bezel and hide it behind smoked plexi....