Vongoosewink
Well-known member
So for the last couple months I've been stopping in to my local Goodwill and Salvation Army stores every couple weeks, armed with the 'Donor TV List' from Junknet. Lately the TVs have been getting harder to find at Goodwill, but the Salvation Army had a mess of them. I was happy to score a $5 Zenith SD1915W, which was supposed to be a drop-in replacement for a WG K4603, and I was sure I had this monitor in my Magic Sword game, with bad screen burn.
So I get home, strip this sucker apart, and get ready for a super-easy tube swap. Yeah!
Just to be sure, I check the yoke readings and compare them to my monitor -- they are way off. What the hell??? So I check the monitor again, and discover with a lot of disappointment that it is a WG K4903, not K4603. Bummer. But I was all psyched to swap the tube, and I decided to try it anyway!
Here are a couple pictures, of the TV before and after the tube was removed.
So I get home, strip this sucker apart, and get ready for a super-easy tube swap. Yeah!
Just to be sure, I check the yoke readings and compare them to my monitor -- they are way off. What the hell??? So I check the monitor again, and discover with a lot of disappointment that it is a WG K4903, not K4603. Bummer. But I was all psyched to swap the tube, and I decided to try it anyway!
Here are a couple pictures, of the TV before and after the tube was removed.

