Any reason to keep parts from dead monitor?

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I own a Missile Command Cocktail (just did a cap kit, and it's working great!).

I also own a second Missile Command Cocktail cabinet, which has a monitor that's got a broken neck and neck board (the top glass is missing, with shards in the corner clips, and the monitor was pushed down into the thing with the neck & board broken. I'm thinking someone or something landed on this guy).

I've removed the broken monitor from the empty cabinet, and I'm wondering if I should keep the chassis board and/or yoke from it as 'spares' for my working system, or if I should try to pass those parts on to someone else? Would anyone care?

Would they help me any in future repairs? Is it worth keeping the yoke at all?
 
Is it worth keeping the yoke? maybe, if you ever found a tube from a TV, then you could swap the yoke to it and have a brand new tube. However, the odds of finding the proper 13" tube are not good, so you could pass the yoke and be fine. If you ever replace the monitor, get an entire working monitor.

As for the chassis - If it's the same as any other monitor you have, then save it. You never know when you'll need a pot, or diode, or resistor, to fix your other one. If you do a lot of monitor work like I do, then you just toss it in a box, put it on a shelf, and save it for some future time when you need something (maybe the socket from the broken neckboard). Sometimes all you need is to look at another chassis to see if a trace is proper or if a part that is maybe missing is really supposed to be there.

If you couldn't care less, then pass it on to someone else who may want it for parts or possible repair. Broken boards can be fixed by determined techs...
 
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