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After much deliberation and PM's with people whom had purchased full monitor setups from Victor at 8liners.com I decided it was the perfect time since I had a restoration almost completed. It'd be a shame to put on old burned to hell monitor in a new restoration right??!!
I saw no point in purchasing a complete monitor from 8liners. I already had 3 shelf mount chassis frames sitting here and for cryin out loud there are 19" TV's for $10-$20 and every once in a awhile I'd see one for free. I found a TV on Craigslist and paid $20 for a TV made back in 1995. Ripping the old crispy tube out of the shelf mount monitor frame, I then opened up the TV, discharged, ripped everything out and transplanted the TV tube into the old tubes frame. Beautiful! A dark tube with no burn gives a guy wood I tell ya.
I send Victor at 8liners an email stating that I needed a chassis for a 19" monitor with 8 pins that had an impedance of 14.1 (low impedance). A day later I check my email and there's an email from Victor stating, "I need your address so I can ship this." Friggin Paypal - hate the fact that it should give him an address and it didn't. Victor was right on top of it though.
One week later I get a chassis in the mail. Take a gander at the pictures. Packaged very nicely.
I had to cut the yoke harness and solder on a new one that came with the new chassis. Heat shrink tubing is your best friend.
The degaussing connector was wrong. Chop - soldered on the one from the old burned up tube. Once again heat shrinked tubing prevails.
The power was some odd connector I've never seen before. This particular chassis doesn't need the ISO. Hoever I removed the power connector from the old G07 chassis and soldered it onto this chassis.
Powered it on to find a picture that was in desperate need of adjustment.
After about 10 minutes (including adjusting the TV's yoke because it was 1/8" off) - I now have an absolutely stunning picture.
So for $105.00 I have a STELLAR looking monitor that IMHO is every bit as delicious looking as the 4900 sitting in a game next to this machine.
I have to say this is my permanent route from here on out. I plan on ordering a few more chassis here shortly to have a few spares on hand.
This whole transaction was flawless - very little effort was needed to make all this work together. This is every bit as good looking as my Vision Pro that I have also been 100% satisfied with.
I saw no point in purchasing a complete monitor from 8liners. I already had 3 shelf mount chassis frames sitting here and for cryin out loud there are 19" TV's for $10-$20 and every once in a awhile I'd see one for free. I found a TV on Craigslist and paid $20 for a TV made back in 1995. Ripping the old crispy tube out of the shelf mount monitor frame, I then opened up the TV, discharged, ripped everything out and transplanted the TV tube into the old tubes frame. Beautiful! A dark tube with no burn gives a guy wood I tell ya.
I send Victor at 8liners an email stating that I needed a chassis for a 19" monitor with 8 pins that had an impedance of 14.1 (low impedance). A day later I check my email and there's an email from Victor stating, "I need your address so I can ship this." Friggin Paypal - hate the fact that it should give him an address and it didn't. Victor was right on top of it though.
One week later I get a chassis in the mail. Take a gander at the pictures. Packaged very nicely.
I had to cut the yoke harness and solder on a new one that came with the new chassis. Heat shrink tubing is your best friend.
The degaussing connector was wrong. Chop - soldered on the one from the old burned up tube. Once again heat shrinked tubing prevails.
The power was some odd connector I've never seen before. This particular chassis doesn't need the ISO. Hoever I removed the power connector from the old G07 chassis and soldered it onto this chassis.
Powered it on to find a picture that was in desperate need of adjustment.
After about 10 minutes (including adjusting the TV's yoke because it was 1/8" off) - I now have an absolutely stunning picture.
So for $105.00 I have a STELLAR looking monitor that IMHO is every bit as delicious looking as the 4900 sitting in a game next to this machine.
I have to say this is my permanent route from here on out. I plan on ordering a few more chassis here shortly to have a few spares on hand.
This whole transaction was flawless - very little effort was needed to make all this work together. This is every bit as good looking as my Vision Pro that I have also been 100% satisfied with.
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