Taking a TV out of it's case...

[JamesS]

Since I am using a pre-made cabinet, I have definite size issues as far as a monitor goes.

Now there is a wooden chassis for the moniter already in the cabinet, but I originally wanted to just make a shelf and put a 20-22 inch tv on the shelf.

But there are not many TVs that size that have S-Video and no speaker on the side of the TV extending the size to sometimes up to 25 inches.  Not at home and I have forgotten the size, since I originally was just going to put a 19 inch Computer moniter in there until I bought a TV for it.

So my question is, is it difficult to do?  I understand having to discharge the TV tube as dangerous.  Other than that how hard is it to take it out and attach it to the cabinet?

Thanks.

[Minwah]

Shouldn't be too difficult.  You shouldn't have to discharge the tube - AS LONG AS YOU'RE CAREFUL!  Don't poke your fingers onto anything that looks iffy - especially under the big plunger-looking thing.  Personally I'd avoid touching any circuitry / metal if possible.

Oh and unplug it first  

[Pipercub]

"Don't poke your fingers onto anything that looks iffy"

Advice for life in general.

[shmokes]

From what I've been told you should absolutely not do this.  Since TV's are meant to be in their plastic cases they are often "hot" all over the place inside and you can get zapped by many non-iffy things.

That's second hand, though.  Just remember that it's your life we're talking about so make sure you are pretty well informed before you move ahead.

[Minwah]

From what I've been told you should absolutely not do this.  Since TV's are meant to be in their plastic cases they are often "hot" all over the place inside and you can get zapped by many non-iffy things.

That's second hand, though.  Just remember that it's your life we're talking about so make sure you are pretty well informed before you move ahead.

In that case don't take my advice - I'm no expert!  

[JamesS]

Ok, I will probably just use a smaller cheap tv to begin with and if the game gets enough play will talk the wife into letting me buy a real arcade monitor.

Anyway, thanks for the answers all.

[menace]

Depends on the TV--I just completely gutted a sanyo and the only dangerous spots were those typically found in a regular arcade monitor.  If you need to de-case the tv--you can usually take the back off and determine its layout without poking into its electrical inards--if what you see makes you nervous--find another way, if not, press on.  If you don't follow common sense safety precautions, its on your head not mine

[ashardin]

I took a TV out of the case a few weeks ago and it didn't seem too dangerous.  Obviously, you should familiarize yourself with the the "iffy points" but there were enough places to grab on the frame to move it if you needed to.

Get a friend to help and you should be OK.  Although, I did finally just decide to just step down a little in the size of the TV so I could keep the case.  When its installed with a bezel it will be just as good

[Wienerdog]

I agree that it depends on the TV.  I pulled the back off my 27" JVC and put it right back on.  The curcuit board sits on the back frame, there are wires attached to the outside connections on the back frame.  A working TV was more important to me than a cab that was 1 inch thinner.

[AndyWarne]

In my previous cabinet (now sold) I uncased a Toshiba 28inch TV. The tube corner mountings bolted straight into the holes for the arcade monitor, not surprising as arcade monitors and TVs use exactly the same tubes. The main PCB I had to mount on a shelf in the cabinet. It was all very easy.
TVs are no more or less dangerous than arcade monitors internally. No modern TVs have chassis connected to mains power, that went out about 20 years ago with the advent of SCART and other external connections which of course prevent usage of this terrible cost-cutting design of early TVs. Older arcde monitors have live chassis as we all know, simply because they evolved from early TV designs, which is why they need an isolating transformer, and these are much more dangerous than any moern TV.