Would appreciate any advice here. I'm really at my wits end with this. Here's the story. I have been working on trying to get my monitor working in my mame cabinet for the last couple of years now. Got an old neo geo cabinet, did a mame setup in it with an arcadevga card. Well, the monitor that came in the cabinet was a horrible Frankenstein creation. Tube appeared to be dying by how off and dim the colors were. Horrible convergence, geometry, loud and painful to listen to flyback, width coil falling apart. The chassis was made by "sharp image", but does not match any sharp image schematic I could find, closest schematic is that of a WG K7000.
Ok so first I try a tube swap. First one no good, try swapping the yoke, convergence nightmare ensues. Try another couple of discarded tv tubes, still no luck. Finally found a nice bright tube with a matching yoke. Use it for a while. Great, but chassis is still a mess, and the picture is squeezed to one side. So I try going for one of the universal replacement chassis. Well, works ok except for horrible blooming and dimming issues. So I put the "sharp image" chassis back in. Well, finally I decide to cap the sharp image chassis replace the whining flyback, and the width coil. Since it seems this sharp image chassis is one that is forgotten about, I get the replacement parts for the k7000 it resembles. Well the caps are all fine except for one that is a different uf than the one specificed by the k7000 schematic. I leave that one as is. Well get it all back together and *bang*, capacitor explodes and blows a fuse. Cap seems like its polarity is correct, but I suspect I used the wrong replacement flyback. Put the old flyback back in and replace the blown cap. Energizes the tube but tube does not glow at the neck, seems the guns are out. Try the other chassis with the tube and the same thing. Looks like I managed to burn the tube out. Well now it appears I am pretty much

. Looks like I finally killed it. I think it is time to give the monitor a proper burial and start with a new one.
Now the problem is I am having trouble finding one for a reasonable price. Called the few local distributors in the area that sell that type of thing and the prices were around $350. A lot of money to pay for a tube walmart sells with a different chassis (tv in that case). Seems the chassis in the arcade monitor is really less sophisticated than the one in the $160 tv Even the newer tvs with ATSC digital tuner technology are less than that. What gives with the price?

If anyone know of somewhere in the St. Louis MO area offering Monitors new or used with a little more down to earth pricing, please let me know. I'd be very appreciative.
