This last year I have found 4 25" TV's that are candidates for converting them to run as vector monitors. I gave a TV to my cousin, Robotronguy, so he could do the conversion on the tube and get it running.
Well today is the day he got it working. With lots of reading and searching to make sure everything would work, he plugged in the tube and fired up his Major Havoc to test his amplifone setup. Here are the pics of his effort to make this happen.
First you need to find the right tube for the swap. Then you need to find a yoke and rings from a donor WG6100, I actually mean a broken neck on a WG6100. I dread to even say those words, knock on wood, I have lots of vector games in my collection and I am super careful when moving my games and working on my vector monitors. But sometimes stuff happens and you end up with a necked tube. Now comes the fun part, remove the yoke and rings from the donor tube, then remove the yoke and rings from the necked WG6100. I highly recommend you mark the position of both yokes and rings. Leave the glue on the rings so they don't rotate during the swap. I also recommend putting a sharpie line across all the rings. Robotronguy decided to use the yoke from the WG6100, but try and use the rings from the donor tube to see if it would work. You can see the results on the pics. They seem to work well.
I now have a task ahead of myself to replicate his work. I bought a Star Wars cockpit this year and I needed to install a 25" tube inside. The game came with a WG6100 and was missing the brackets for the 25" tube. Thanks to Takeman for making the brackets again, just in time to help me with my restore of my SW cockpit. I have a spare WG6100 yoke and rings. All said and done, the tube is working using the WG6100 yoke, amplifone HV and deflection PCB. Soon I will do the tube swap and have the satisfaction of bringing a dedicated SW cockpit back to it's original glory with a 25" amplifone tube inside.
Well today is the day he got it working. With lots of reading and searching to make sure everything would work, he plugged in the tube and fired up his Major Havoc to test his amplifone setup. Here are the pics of his effort to make this happen.
First you need to find the right tube for the swap. Then you need to find a yoke and rings from a donor WG6100, I actually mean a broken neck on a WG6100. I dread to even say those words, knock on wood, I have lots of vector games in my collection and I am super careful when moving my games and working on my vector monitors. But sometimes stuff happens and you end up with a necked tube. Now comes the fun part, remove the yoke and rings from the donor tube, then remove the yoke and rings from the necked WG6100. I highly recommend you mark the position of both yokes and rings. Leave the glue on the rings so they don't rotate during the swap. I also recommend putting a sharpie line across all the rings. Robotronguy decided to use the yoke from the WG6100, but try and use the rings from the donor tube to see if it would work. You can see the results on the pics. They seem to work well.
I now have a task ahead of myself to replicate his work. I bought a Star Wars cockpit this year and I needed to install a 25" tube inside. The game came with a WG6100 and was missing the brackets for the 25" tube. Thanks to Takeman for making the brackets again, just in time to help me with my restore of my SW cockpit. I have a spare WG6100 yoke and rings. All said and done, the tube is working using the WG6100 yoke, amplifone HV and deflection PCB. Soon I will do the tube swap and have the satisfaction of bringing a dedicated SW cockpit back to it's original glory with a 25" amplifone tube inside.





