Planning For The Future

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I'm about to trash two arcade monitors and was wondering that since these monitors are not made any more what the best replacement options might be.

Does there exist or is it plausible that a converter can be made to allow the use of LCD monitors in place of the G07, WG 4600, 4900, U2000, U5000, K7000, Sharp and Sanyo monitors?

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
1) Why are you trashing them?

2) How much of the monitor is there that you are trashing?

3) what models?

4) if there are chassis and/or yokes involved, perhaps I can convince you send them to me before you toss the tubes (provided they aren't oddballs)...
 
DONT TRASH THEM, STASH THEM!

.. or send the yokes to modessitte
 
1) Why are you trashing them?

2) How much of the monitor is there that you are trashing?

3) what models?

4) if there are chassis and/or yokes involved, perhaps I can convince you send them to me before you toss the tubes (provided they aren't oddballs)...

I trashed them because I couldn't figure out how to fix them.

(WG4600 & WG4900).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
I trashed them because I couldn't figure out how to fix them.

That's a shame. Personally if I wanted to go for the easy option and play a close aproximation of the original game I'd just mame everything. In the meantime I try to keep everything running original hardware and monitors as someone will probably be able to spot something like an LCD display. If I couldn't fix a monitor and didn't have the room to store it I'd offer it to someone who could. I've been pulling stuff out of the junk pile that I put there 6 years ago because I couldn't get the parts or didn't know how to fix it and I'm amazed by how much stuff I've managed to resurrect and also found that one of the monitors had a tube that would be a good substitue for an XY monitor. The only thing I am generally lazy about repairing is logic board PSUs since for comon voltages there are so many cheap alternatives around.
 
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Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to change my wiper blade on my truck, good thing I can just throw that damn truck out and get a new one.
 
I'm planning for the future too. I've been going to thrift stores and the recycling center looking for replacement tubes so I can do tube swaps now and in the future. Figure If I have an extra 19" tube or two in my shed I can always get an replacement chassis if I can't figure out how to fix my own chassis. You can always find someone willing to buy/trade for a non-working chassis. Seems like a waste to just trash them.
 
Some people are LCD crazy. This person is and asked me to install an LCD in one of my games for $350. I said no thanks, I am well capable of doing that on my own of course if I wanted BUT WOULD NEVER since my monitor is good and works fine. I mean why trash an old monitor just because?

Anyway, here is an example of one of their LCD installs, game price is only $700 too. I've seen others in the shop too with similar workmanship and I am so not impressed.

Bottom line is, if you cannot do it correctly and get or make a bezel for it, why do it? This persons work looks horrible on any LCD install I've seen by them!
 

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Some people are LCD crazy. This person is and asked me to install an LCD in one of my games for $350. I said no thanks, I am well capable of doing that on my own of course if I wanted BUT WOULD NEVER since my monitor is good and works fine. I mean why trash an old monitor just because?

Anyway, here is an example of one of their LCD installs, game price is only $700 too. I've seen others in the shop too with similar workmanship and I am so not impressed.

Bottom line is, if you cannot do it correctly and get or make a bezzel for it, why do it? This persons work looks horrible on any LCD install I've seen by them!

that's gross. lol

what's even funnier is those MAME hackjobs where the game had like a 25" monitor and they stick a little 17" LCD in there. it's like 8 inches around of bezel. LOL

when I was at IAAPA, that new Namco Pac-Man Arcade Party game has a friggin widescreen LCD in it. not only are they jamming LCDs in everything now, but they're not even using 4:3s anymore. so you get the blocky picture, and some stretching to go along with it.
 
Sadly, new lcd 4:3 monitors are getting a bit harder to find unless you resort to the used aftermarket.. Thats why many people are resorting to widescreen monitors!
 
I trashed them because I couldn't figure out how to fix them.

(WG4600 & WG4900).

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

In the future, do NOT throw any chassis away that you cannot fix. If you don't want them anymore, let me know, and I will most likely pay shipping for you to send them to me...
 
In the future, do NOT throw any chassis away that you cannot fix. If you don't want them anymore, let me know, and I will most likely pay shipping for you to send them to me...

Dead chassis are always worth something to someone. I've paid for G07 chassis with wires cut, they're just not that hard to fix.
 
both those, the 4600 and 4900 are pretty easy to fix even for beginners like me...i would have paid you to ship those to me also.
 
I have a couple more to get rid of, but I am not into shipping monitors or much anything else larger than my fist.

I've come to the point that if I can't fix something I can't use it, and I need to make room.

But to get back on topic, it looks as though LCDs may be the only option when the CRTs stop working. I'm wondering if they will be "improved" for these game by then.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
 
I have a couple more to get rid of, but I am not into shipping monitors or much anything else larger than my fist.

I've come to the point that if I can't fix something I can't use it, and I need to make room.

But to get back on topic, it looks as though LCDs may be the only option when the CRTs stop working. I'm wondering if they will be "improved" for these game by then.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

Monitors will be fixable long after the PCBs can't be fixed anymore. People are restoring and fixing 40s tvs still, and I realize that tubes are no longer being produced, but 19in tubes for many types are everywhere and will still show up at yard sales and thrift stores for years to come.

Moving to LCD changes the look of the game quite a bit, so much so that you might just just to MAME. Maybe that's exaggerating and maybe not.
 
I have a couple more to get rid of, but I am not into shipping monitors or much anything else larger than my fist.

I've come to the point that if I can't fix something I can't use it, and I need to make room.

Pretty easy to drop it into a Priority Mail flat rate box with some paper for padding. One price ships all over the US...
 
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