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Title: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: jimmy_bored on August 02, 2006, 08:54:22 pm
I am having problems adjusting the the horizontal width on my 19K4901.  I removed the coil and ordered a new one.  Now that I have it removed I can see through the coil, I am assuming that the ferrite core has been destroyed?  In other words if the core is in-tack I should not be able to see through it(top to bottom)?

Thanks,

Jimmy
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: Ken Layton on August 03, 2006, 10:44:53 am
Most width coils you can see all the way thru the hex shaped hole in the slug.
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: jimmy_bored on August 03, 2006, 11:32:59 am
Most width coils you can see all the way through the hex shaped hole in the slug.

So the ferrite core is really a cylinder inside the plastic tube?  Once I got it out pieces of the core fell out, but I can still see the cylinder.  Even once I got it out I still could not get it to turn... Hopefully the new one will turn with ease...  The monitors mfg date was 1982.

Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: Ken Layton on August 03, 2006, 12:06:21 pm
For some reason, Wells-Gardner glued the slugs in place on many monitor models. The replacement width coils you buy today are not glued (thank goodness).
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: jimmy_bored on August 03, 2006, 12:31:34 pm
For some reason, Wells-Gardner glued the slugs in place on many monitor models. The replacement width coils you buy today are not glued (thank goodness).

Thanks for all the good info Ken!  I should get the replacement early next week.

Jimmy
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 03, 2006, 12:46:01 pm
Be sure to use a plastic hex tool on those also....regular metal allen wrenches and scredrivers tend to chip and crack the ferrite core. (guilty)

Radio Shack (ugh) generally has a $5.00 set of "TV" tools that work well on most.
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: jimmy_bored on August 03, 2006, 01:32:03 pm
Be sure to use a plastic hex tool on those also....regular metal allen wrenches and scredrivers tend to chip and crack the ferrite core. (guilty)

Radio Shack (ugh) generally has a $5.00 set of "TV" tools that work well on most.

Yeah... I got the ones from Radio Shack....  But I think the guy before me didn't...  :hissy:
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: Kevin Mullins on August 03, 2006, 04:50:25 pm
Oh, I indeed know what you mean there......  :angry:
It only took one time for me to learn the hard way.
But you would be surprised how many times I've come across one that is already broke when I work on a used machine.
Title: Re: Horizontal Width Coil - Ferrite Core Question
Post by: jimmy_bored on August 03, 2006, 10:28:28 pm
Oh, I indeed know what you mean there......  :angry:
It only took one time for me to learn the hard way.
But you would be surprised how many times I've come across one that is already broke when I work on a used machine.

I believe it!