Hi,
I have an old B&W "specialty" monitor which recently stopped working.
In the process of moving it around (to/from repair place) I noticed a
little black "tube magnet" dropping out when I took the cover off.
At the time I didn't think much of it (those in the know can chuckle now).
So, after a bout of replacing bad caps with no luck, I eventually broke
down and replaced the deflection board and the monitor sprang to life.
Much joy.
(note: "specialty" = designed for a specific computer with a special ECL
video connection and has no standard connector or interface. and no
schematics)
So, monitor is working. I proceed to adjust the H & V size, linearity, etc...
I notice that the bottom and sides will square up nicely but the top
edge has a large "dip" in the middle. No amount of trimmer fiddling will
fix this.
light goes off. "found" tube magnet is part of yoke assembly.
So, I notice where the missing magnet came from. Naturally it's on the
top side of the yoke assembly.
But - the "tube" has broken into 3 pieces (it was broke when I found it.
honest). I carefully glued it back together (no glue in the joints,
however) and replaced it. This helped a little but did not cure the
problem.
[note to reader: I never took that fields course. I know nothing of magnets.]
So,
- is a broken magnet pushed back together not as good as a whole magnet?
(strength wise)
- can I get a new magnet somewhere?
- is there anything special about these magnets?
- do normal monitor repair guys just have a box of these laying around?
- does this sort of thing happen all the time?
-brad