K4600 help needed

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I have been contemplating pulling my none working monitor and replacing it with an LCD in my 60-1 game. The problem I am having is that the whole screen is light green with vertical lines scrolling left to right on it and the bottom of the screen seems to be someone collapsed. I tried to get a good picture, but with the scrolling lines it made it difficult. No matter what I do I can't seem to get a good picture at all. The monitor was working - at least I could get somewhat of a picture even though the colors were not great- before I re-did the cabinet. I don't know if laying the cabinet on its back and sides during my pre-painting prep work caused something to break or come loose I don't know. The game has sound and can be played blind. I also took a reading at my power supply and it was at 5.1v. I finally decided to hook up an old LCD monitor that I had laying around, switch the dip switch on the board and see what happens. Well, I got a good picture and could play the game with no problem. I don't know if a cap kit will solve the problem or if I need a new tube. I have an old RCA XL100 TV that I could try taking the tube out of to see if that will work, but I have never did a cap kit or tube swap before. This just seems like a lot of work to do when I could just buy a used 19" or 20" LCD monitor and not have to go through all the trouble. Anybody have some things I could check before totally giving up on this monitor?

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Those tubes are known to have internal shorts from the guns (the colors) to the heaters. Yours looks to have a few problems. Probably needs a cap kit and either has a shorted green drive, green is turned up too high or the tube is internally shorted.

SOMETIMES (and I mean sometimes) you can get away with leaning the cab forward so that the neck is pointing more down towards the ground in front of the game and GENTLY tap on the neck with something soft. That might dislodge what ever is shorting the tube out be beware, if you tap to hard you will snap the neck.
 
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