I gotta DK Upright now I have some questions....

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I got this today for $200.00. I rolled into a cruddy thrift store and this was buried in the back underneath some clothes and crap. I told the guy I'd give him $200.oo if it worked (I'm no good at negotiating.). We fired it up, the monitor barely came on but it did play. So, I paid him and split - got home and opened it up and the monitor area was the dirtiest mess I have ever seen... I'm not sure the monitor was ever cleaned - easily 1/4 of dust across everything. There were NO RAT TURDS in the bottom, just a pair of dirty socks, some crayons and MORE dust/ spider webs. The CPO has LOTS of cig burns (damn smokers) and I need to order a couple stickers. The side art was shot so I pulled it off. The sides are OK but some of it splintered when we dragged it tot he car, nothing major.

So, the game powers up and plays fine. The monitor is very dark and partially collapsed on the left. I can deal with the collapse but the darkness doesn't work for me. My son saw it and said, "I didn't know Mario was African American!" I know a recap will fix the collapse but will it also bring back the color. Or, should I degause it first? I've never recapped a monitor...

Nonetheless, I am stoked! Just yesterday I sold my DK cocktail table because it wasn't getting any game play.

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The cab is a solid 8 out of 10.
 
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Caps will help the collapse and the colors mos likely. The screen or brightness might need to be turned up also.

The burns on the cpo (if they are not too deep) can be sanded out then polished with novus. They come out pretty well that way. The last few I had the start buttons were burnt pretty bad as well. They were used as a Cig holder I guess.
 
If turning up the brightness on the flyback does little or nothing I would suspect the flyback. Could be a bad brightness pot also. Here's to hoping its not a dying tube.

Nice score BTW.
 
If turning up the brightness on the flyback does little or nothing I would suspect the flyback. Could be a bad brightness pot also. Here's to hoping its not a dying tube.

Nice score BTW.

The brightness will go dark if I turn the pot. So, I have the brightness turned up all the way...

The CPO cig burns are bad enough that I will eventually just replace it. But, for right now my main focus is getting this up and running 100%.
 
I have found in the past that a small and/or dim picture is also related to the B+ voltage. It should be adjusted for 108V. The last couple of Nintendo cabs I got with a Sanyo EZ20 in them had the B+ at 85V to 95V. I guess they drift down over time. One other thing you can try is the inverter board right about the flyback cage. It will also have 3 pots on it, separate from those on the neck board. You can adjust the pots on the inverter board for more color signal.
 
Where are these thrift stores? All the thrift stores around here might as well be dumpsters.

Nice pickup!
 
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Where are these thrift stores? All the thrift stores around here might as well be dumpsters.

Nice pickup!

LOL, same here... great score for $200!! Congrats!

And restoring them is fun, especially if you have less into them then they are worth fixed :)
 
You should also adjust the "screen" which is an adjustment on the flyback cage. You need to stick a screwdriver in the hole and adjust it. This is essentially another "brightness" control. The flyback cage has two holes with two adjustment knobs on the other side. One is "focus" the other is "screen". I forget which is which, but it will be obvious once you start turning them. There is also a sub-brightness pot on the monitor chassis. You probably will not have to mess with that. And of course you already found the brightness knob next to the sound volume control on the remote board.

It sounds like your only issue is a cap kit. And, it wouldn't hurt to check your B+
 
i just picked up a DK cocktail table for $100 because the women said it needed a new monitor.(no picture at all) after i posted a ton of questions i learned everything was waaaaaay out of adjustment. now it looks like a new monitor. good luck......
 
I fiddled with it some more and got the picture bright. Seems there re about a dozen knobs that adjust this and that. So, I tweeked them all until I got a bright picture. Obviously, aside from rebuilding the monitor, there's nothing i can do about the left side collapse but that doesn't bother me as it's very minor.
 
I fiddled with it some more and got the picture bright. Seems there re about a dozen knobs that adjust this and that. So, I tweeked them all until I got a bright picture. Obviously, aside from rebuilding the monitor, there's nothing i can do about the left side collapse but that doesn't bother me as it's very minor.

Does the collapse look like the picture kind of droops downward on the left side? Thats something you might be able to adjust out using the horizontal hold. Its a really difficult pot to adjust right in middle of the board towards the flyback side.
 
Does the collapse look like the picture kind of droops downward on the left side? Thats something you might be able to adjust out using the horizontal hold. Its a really difficult pot to adjust right in middle of the board towards the flyback side.

It shrinks in on itself on the left - I tried the hold but the pots really suck on this game. Seems some are so old and corroded they don't do anything at all. I'm gonna eventually buy a cap kit and build this as well as clean up these old pots.
 
Incredibly obvious, but you did wipe the dust off the screen, too, right? Not sure if when you mentioned the "monitor area" you were talking about the chassis and back of the tube or the screen itself.
 
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