How to converge a monitor

Maybe you have an extra monitor you can try it out on first?

How long has it been that way? Either someone thought that was good enough when they installed it, or it got bumped. Maybe your yoke clamp is already loose?

It's been that way since I got it 4 years ago. In a cabaret too, even harder to get up in there and turn it. I'll probably turn it when it's off and discharged. Any amount of turning it will probably be better than now. I've never had to touch a yoke, maybe I'll just go for it and see what happens
 
Having issues with a "parallelogram" problem on a newly assembled vector monitor that I re-wound the vertical part of the yoke (probably the issue).
Made a thread for it. Maybe I have to re-wind the yoke again, or maybe it just needs massive correction to un-tilt the whole thing. The horizontal lines are squared up, so rotating the yoke isn't going to sort it out. Overall, the color convergence is really good, so I am kind of hesitant to mess with that. all of the colors are being affected equally.


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I have a Tempest that I have spent many hours on converging the game looks pretty good while playing. Not very much color bleed anymore. They're used to be a red lines parallel with the tubes lines when the shooter changed them from blue to yellow. Irritating is an understatement. I'm glad this is my own and not a customers. Repairing boards is not my forté. Lol

The magenta test pattern... I can get most of it aligned. The bottom of the screen however the blue grid is smaller, vertically on both sides. Looking at just the border, the grids go RB BR. Is there a way to tweak the guns to tighten up the convergence for the bottom of the screen? Convergence tabs?

Also, the colors appear to have small black bands in them. I assume it's the screen in the tube.
 

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So can we get a detailed step by step done like the OP did, but for Raster, since he admitted his instructions were for Vector. Sure you could simply say Ring 1 first for Raster, BUT as he was doing, need it step by step now that the order is wrong and what are we looking for in adjusting purity, etc.. Ideally clear and concise instructions dedicated for Raster just like OP did for Vector. From beginning to end.
 
I had been looking for a detailed instructional for many years but in my experience, the monitor manuals are the best starting point. It takes experience ( and a bit of luck ) and that can only be had by trial and error. I do not think I have ever completed a convergence the exact same way.
 
I had been looking for a detailed instructional for many years but in my experience, the monitor manuals are the best starting point. It takes experience ( and a bit of luck ) and that can only be had by trial and error. I do not think I have ever completed a convergence the exact same way.
Well if we could, (I will do it), we could copy and paste that here, so they are both in one place. I just need to find the originals lol
 
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