Ms Pac monitor adjustment help

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Hey gang,
I have a nice working ms pac but I cant seem to get the picture to fit in the tube just right. My image is too skinny but too tall where I cannot see my lives at the bottom or the score at the top. Ive messed around with the adjustment knobs but cant seem to get the image right. Any pointers would be helpful thanks
 
In a Ms. Pac-Man the monitor is actually mounted sideways, so you need to adjust the horizontal. Depending on the monitor (several different kinds) they'll be a width coil on it, it'll be a tall white or black plastic thing with copper wire wrapped around it. You put an adjustment tool down inside of it and turn, and it makes the screen wider or narrower which will get your image back into view on the top and bottom. You kind of need a plastic tool to adjust it though, unless you do it while it's off... if you use something metal on it it'll heat up and burn your hand.

If it's a newer monitor, it may just have a 'horizontal width" knob, but not many of them do. Sometimes too you can't get it narrow enough, so you have to change a cap in the width circuit to make it thinner.
 
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