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Cap kit :( by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/30/2012, 1:39am PDT
Worm wrote:

It worked fine for a few days and now the image is pinching in on the top and bottom if I give the monitor a slap it stops for a bit. It's been pretty irregular generally. I'm guessing the thing is just dying but would there be any sort of heroic measures I can take at this point? It's kind of a nice monitor and if I had an idea of what to look for I'd be fine with opening it up rather than leaving it to die. It's nice for playing older 3:4 games on for nostalgia reasons. I'm hoping the slapping means it's some kind of component rather than the tube itself just dying.

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One of the things Tdarcos taught me to scan for keywords and then cross-reference those keywords with the limited pool of knowledge I possess. So I saw "CRT" and "pinching" and I know that with arcade CRTs you'd need to install a set of new capacitors.

Now, the problems with this advice is that I have no idea if that's still a "thing" that people did for modern CRTs. It's like when my toilet recently died. I had the technology on my toilet that involved the long pole and the bulb. You can imagine my frustration when I went to Lowes and they didn't have that, they had this goddamn Willy Wonka bubble factory pipe shit instead. Well, that's all they make now. That's all they make, Worm.

I am not sure where you'd get the technical documentation for the caps, either. But it CAN be done and I hope that you do do it. If anime girls, like in your photo, were weirdly proportioned, I think it would break mimesis.

Yours in Christ,


ICJ
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I've been having trouble with this CRT I dug out of storage by Worm 09/02/2012, 11:27am PDT NEW
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