18 Jul
2010
18 Jul
'10
9:37 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: 17" CRT - Worth Keeping?
Fixing CRT monitors is not my specialty to be honest, and I have a NEC 3Ds
in the basement with a fuzzy screen I would try to fix before I messed with
one with a totally dead screen. I still have a Tandy CM-5 in the garage I
need to looked at also, that one buzzes with no screen coming up.
Anything can be repaired, its just a matter of time and money.
I spotted a
NEC 3Ds at the recycler last weekend, too bad it didn't work
or
I would have snagged it in a minute (turned on but screen stayed dark).
You mean you didn't grab it anyway to see if the fault was fixable (or
even easy to fix)? I think I would at least have taken it home to see if
the EHT was coming up (actually, you might have been able to 'feel' that
anyway) and if the CRT heaters were alight. the fault could be something
as simple as dried-up capacitors
Those old monitors are starting to die out.
Particularly if people assume that any one that doesn't work can't be
repaired...
-tony