Can this be fixed.

smitymike11

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I have been in here in a wile life for in the way. Now I have moved into a house and can have a small arcade. I have moved some games from storage to my new house. I powered one up that was working and heard a strange noise. I looked inside and found the monitor is broken. Can this be repaired?


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RIP Centuri/Konami T&F K4900 tube. You served us well till you were moved. You've run your last race. :(
Say hello to my K7000 tube in CRT Heaven.
 
The "good news" is that pretty much any other arcade monitor can replace it. (Except vector or b/w monitors)

Yeah, hearing the hisssssssss of a broken neck is traumatizing, and I've heard it at least twice.

A 19" TV tube can replace the CRT tube though. It takes some finagling sometimes, but is possible. So to answer your question, it CAN be fixed. And we'll help as best possible.
 
UGH, bummer to see. 1 less tube we have on earth. Hopefully someone somewhere starts manufacturing tubes someday, but you know what they say wish in one hand and shit in the other.
 
I do have two of three other monitors that are extras not in any games. I figure I should take off what I can. I'm just not sure what happened. It could have happened when moving or with things getting moved in the garage. It does suck because it was a working game. A jamma can. It has dynamite duke in it right now.
 
At least you weren't present for the woosh sound. That sound has been known to make people commit crimes. Just saying.

Take a weekend, swap the tube/monitor, and move forward. All will be well 😀
 
MAKE SURE (while the necked monitor is in there) that the back door just closing didn't cause it. If a monitor was swapped and the previous one was just a half inch shorter in depth or something...

Some games BitD had things like this on the back door to prevent such atrocities: (But they also make it a huge pain to properly dolly/handtruck them around)

 
Yeah, hearing the hisssssssss of a broken neck is traumatizing, and I've heard it at least twice.
Sega Super Hang On - Designers must have had family in the tube business. Try to unscrew and take that shroud off, by design it drops down ONTO THE NECK - heard the hiss, hung my head, and still had to stuff that monster up the tightest stairway I have ever pulled a game out of.
 
MAKE SURE (while the necked monitor is in there) that the back door just closing didn't cause it. If a monitor was swapped and the previous one was just a half inch shorter in depth or something...

Some games BitD had things like this on the back door to prevent such atrocities: (But they also make it a huge pain to properly dolly/handtruck them around)

The back wasn't on the game. I put the little board on it to get it out of the trailer so I could use the dolly on it. Not sure when it broke. It could have been in the trailer wile I transported it to.
 
I did that once. Still think about it every time I work on a monitor.
I think for most, that's something that only happens once before you become alot more careful.

Two really easy ways to neck one... lay a cabinet on its back for transport without making sure the monitor is secure...

The back wasn't on the game. I put the little board on it to get it out of the trailer so I could use the dolly on it. Not sure when it broke. It could have been in the trailer wile I transported it to.
^^^and this^^^ ... moving a cabinet on a hand truck without a back door. We've all done this very thing. In fact, I just did the same thing a couple weeks ago... I used a piece of plywood to bridge the open back... in this case, it's much safer to truck a cabinet with a missing back door from the side. Another way to truck from the back is to use a pony clamp so you can clamp the pipe bridged across the opening to catch the top of the hand truck without it shifting and putting the neck in peril. Although I have a pony clamp specifically for this purpose(complete with plastic cushions on the clamp), sometimes it's a PITA to go fetch it for that quick, "gotta get this done" moment.

Another way, of course is moving a naked monitor around... but you should at least know that it's gonna turn out bad if you're careless... the first two I mentioned are more "innocent" gotchas.

I haven't necked one yet, but if when the inevitable eventuality catches up with me, I know for certain I will be mad at myself every time it's thought about.

My 2₵

Dylan
 
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