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just picked this up. Hopefully I can save a few, might be a big load of E-waste. Feels like a good winter project: And another little buddy:
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Gents, I'm proud to offer the first of my truckload of EZ-V monitors. Hopefully this is the missing piece for someone rebuilding a Nintendo cab.
Out of the 6, I picked this one to do first as it is the only complete monitor with AMP/Inverter board out of all 6. It's been outside for a long time, and was covered in dirt and spiders. All the frames were rusty and gross, so I de-rusted and painted the frame components. Is this factory fresh? No, but it's pretty good for something you won't every look at.
I've done a lot of chassis, so all the normal stuff has been done, reflow input header, cleaned up the flux mess, Deoxit on the pot, etc.
Tested the tube and gave it 1 round of 'clean and balance' looking crisp and bright.
The chassis has been rebuilt with Arcade Parts and Repair's cap kit and b+ set to 108vdc
I also rebuilt the amp. Have not tested a signal, but have hooked up a speaker and confirmed the Nintendo hum and the volume pot works.
Ran in on the test bench for 5 hours. Everything is great.
Willing to ship, my last monitor cost around $120 to ship for postage and materials to the great lakes area from California. I basically get the heavy duty box from home depot and cut a piece of 1/2" plywood to fit, as described in this thread:
over the yrs developed this way of shipping monitors buy home depot heavy duty extra large 2x thick box find base wood material for bottom, can be old ply wood scrap, presswood, old back door scrap, ect cut to fit inside bottom of box put monitor on wood, position so neck has max distance...
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The market for whole monitors is weird, so I will make this a MMAO, obviously understand that I probably have 5-6 hours of work on this one monitor. Not trying to retire on Sanyo refurbishment, but you get the point.
Also, if you are using this for a Nintendo game it does not need the inverter board and I'd prefer to keep it if you don't need it, we can work that into the price.