Ever been so mad at yourself, you wanted to pay someone to beat the hell out of you?

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Ever been so mad at yourself, you wanted to pay someone to beat the hell out of you?

I was moving some stuff in my garage and mis-handled one of my 2 spare monitors that I was so proud to have recently aquired, a nice bright G07, smacked something into the neck and snapped it clean off. What a heartbreaking sound, the hiss of air escaping like it's final breath :( Dammit, I'm so mad at myself.


I can at least salvage the chassis off it, but damn, it was such a nice tube.
 
The same thing happened to me when I bought a NIB WG K7700 back in November '09. I heard the crack, and then the hiss.

I wanted to cry. It never even made it out of the box. The styrofoam cracked the neck as I was trying to unpack it.

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Fortunately, I got a refund, and managed to find a NIB Vision Pro under $200.
 
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Dude that sucks huge!!! I did it once before myself, slipped abit in my hands, and just barely touched something but heard that lovely hiss of the gas knew it had become a huge paperweight.
On another note, if you wanted to pay me to come thump you some, it could be arranged ;) LOL
 
Ha! I did the same thing once, except I happened to SNEEZE, my hand moved, bumped the neckboard and broke the neck! Don't feel TOO bad!
 
Yeah, I've necked one too. Sucks. I swapped tubes, and she's all better now.

Between that and getting 'the bite' I'm 50/50 now. I really don't want to join the other club.
 
I had the monitor out of my Star Wars and my son hit the neck board with his backpack while walking through the garage, that pop and hiss just made my head drop. It was my fault though for having it in the wrong place.
 
I feel your pain, I run most of my games with the back doors off & my cat loves getting on top of the machines. So one day I have a hankering to play some Frogger, I turn it on while noticing a skid mark in the dust down the top of the machine. Glow coming from the neck of the monitor, I knew exactly what happened. Fast forward a month or two, I remove the monitor to put in storage, set it on the platform with other dead monitors & bumped one of the necks with the frame of the Frogger monitor. Very disheartening.
Instead of hiring someone to beat the hell out of you, how about an ass kicking contest :)
 
My very first game purchase was in the late 90's and it was a Data East "Sly Spy" game. I lived in a third floor apartment and as we literally turned the last corner my friend's grip slipped a little and the neck hit his knee. I heard the hiss and didn't know what it was back then. Upon plugging it in just a minute or two later it of course played blind. I never did play a game on that machine :(...
 
All very sad stories! I feel your pain. I was so happy to finally have 2 spares in this day and age of rare CRT s. At least I still have the nice K7000....for now!!!
 
I had the monitor out of my Star Wars and my son hit the neck board with his backpack while walking through the garage, that pop and hiss just made my head drop. It was my fault though for having it in the wrong place.
Ouch man sorry to hear. :( Was it an Amp or Wells?
 
Been there done that. When I was still new to the arcade scene, I had a Centipede cabaret that was giving me so much shit, one thing would go bad after another. Then after I finally got the monitor working, I went to put it back in the machine and as I was reaching up inside behind the monitor to put the screws back in, I felt a static shock and I jumped and my elbow snapped the tubes neck with a nice clean break and that hissing nearly brought tears to my eyes in frustration.
 
My very first game purchase was in the late 90's and it was a Data East "Sly Spy" game. I lived in a third floor apartment and as we literally turned the last corner my friend's grip slipped a little and the neck hit his knee. I heard the hiss and didn't know what it was back then. Upon plugging it in just a minute or two later it of course played blind. I never did play a game on that machine :(...

You moved a game with no back door on it? Sly Spy was one of the first games I purchased also,great game if your a Bond fan.
 
I've done this twice, and it is very dis-heartening. The real shame was that the first time it happened, my daughter was within ear shot, and heard her dad cussing like a truck driver. It was a decent donor tube I had just pulled from a tv, and I barely bumped it on a cab carrying to the game room - hiss... :mad:
The second wasn't so bad as it was a tube from a GO7 that had quite a bit of Centipede burn...
And I've been bit too. :rock:
 
Having too many games/parts and not enough space to store them, I've lost 4 monitors that way. I poured a 40 out for each one.

Thankfully that part of my life is now over.
 
It sucks to neck a monitor ... but we all do it ... eventually.

I necked A nice Sanyo that I had just spent the time rebuilding.

It sucks.
 
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