My monitor swap...success w/pics

[iscariot]

My tube swap worked out.  In all honesty it wasn't that tough after all.  It was actually tougher to find the tube than the board.  This one came out of a Phillips tv.  A little work and all should be well.  Here's what I got.


Here's the original, also a Phillips tube.  Unit had so much burn in that you could read it across the room.

The connectors weren't the same.  Good thing I had wire cutters

This is the back of the tube and chassis after I spliced in the connectors.

Here's the tube with the old chassis.  They don't fit.  Going to have to make a new holder.

That's where this all comes in.  Jigsaw here I come.

Here's the new, swapped tube looking good. 

Lessons learned:

You can swap a 20 inch tube to a 19 inch chassis.  However, I've never tried this with a different mfg'r.  I figure it's probably safe if you use the same make but I wouldn't chance it.

Connectors need to be swapped.  I used crimps.  I'm sure solder will wok as good if not better.  The problem is that one monitor had stranded wire and the other had single wires.  I didn't want to desolder it because it was a serious mess.

Unlike what has been said in other places, I was able to keep the original yoke.  You'll see that the pics show the convergence is alright.  I mainly kept the yoke becuse the neck of the tube was a different diameter. 

That said, it worked and I'm satisfied.  I just need to cut myself a new mount out of particle board and I'll be happy.  Will post pics of the DD restore later.

[smalltownguy]

Hurry up with the DD restore pics! I LOVE that game. I owned it for a bit, until an arcade owner approached me to put it back into service at his location. I couldn't help but sell it, if nothing else, she's back where she belongs -- in an arcade. Now I go visit her every now and then to pay homage 

[iscariot]

Actually, I need some stuff, IE the sideart(the boring taito stuff), the CPO(the original was silk screened), bezel and the marquee.  It looks like the cab was in a windows or something.  It looks horribly sun bleached.