Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: shredso on August 17, 2009, 01:10:28 pm
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My wife decided she didnt like where my arcade monitor was stored, so she moved it and leaned so the weight of the monitor was on the board. The board is severely cracked as you can see in the pic. The monitor is a Wells Gardner 19k4901. I recently recapped it and it looks great. I replaced it with a 27" digital but I was hanging on to it in hopes of building a MS Pacman style cocktail mame cab. It doesn't work at all now. Is this a part that can be found? Is it worth fixing? Can anyone estimate the value of the monitor? Thanks.
Ed.
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Given some patience, and a steady soldering hand, you might be able to repair that board (assuming the components themselves are still intact). You just have a lot of broken traces to repair.
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As already mentioned.... repairable.
I've done a few like that.
I generally super glue the boards cracks back together so that it's solid again and then thoroughly scrape each trace clean all along the crack line and solder bridge the traces.
Be sure to thoroughly check each solder eye as well that is near the crack lines.
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fixable !
wives can sure be walkin' talkin' hemorroids at times !!!!
mine has the tendency to toss things out if she doesn't know what it is , and too LAZY to ask :angry:
which , is WHY i won't do repair work at home - stuff disappears !!
qrz
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I suppose I'll give it a shot, nothing to lose right? I'll have a couple beers to cure that shaky hand and check back in when it's done.
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I gave it the old college try. I jumped everything that looked broken, checked continuity, everything looked fine. There is power going to parts of the monitor that it wasn't before, but absolutely no picture. There are some faint clicking noises, I powered it down. Glass tube never seemed to warm up or light up. Seems like the value of this working may only be $75-100 so I'm thinking this is headed to the dump unless I can get a hold of that part. Is it called a neck board?
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If you are going to trash it could I talk you into giving it to me? I love a challenge and I have a time to putz, after the wife and kids go to bed and before I'm guaranteed to be completely useless at work the next day. Alright very little time to putz but still ... I'd be happy to pay for postage ;D
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I'm gonna give a little more time to find the part, I hate to see it go to waste. I found a complete chasis on ebay, but the shipping kinda kills me because its the whole big thing. If I don't find anything soon, I'll part with it. I'd probably want a few bucks for the hassle of boxing and shipping though.
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I'm gonna give a little more time to find the part, I hate to see it go to waste. I found a complete chasis on ebay, but the shipping kinda kills me because its the whole big thing. If I don't find anything soon, I'll part with it. I'd probably want a few bucks for the hassle of boxing and shipping though.
Please do take some time and hopefully, find something that will work for your tube. I mainly don't want it to end up in the trash, and it will give me something to mess around with. ;D
If it turns out that you are going to trash it please pm me and we'll work something out.
Good luck