fredxd9
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Picked up a Atari Space Duel about a month ago, Just got around to messing with it today for the first time. Powered it up and heard a loud " CRACK " from the picture tube area, sounded like a circuit breaker tripping. My first thought was bad flyback, but after about 30 seconds of looking around I found that the neck of the tube has a crack in it in a place I did not see when I looked at it before buying ( or it got cracked in my shop, and thats possible ). Now this being my first Color Vector Monitor I have a question, Is this tube a breed of it's own or is a tube swap even possible from a conventional monitor? It is a Wells Gardner K6100 with an RCA 19VLUP22 tube. This machine is an easy 9 out of 10 condition ( except the tube ) and I hate to do anything to it other than fix it but if this is a hard to find tube ( or complete monitor ) I'm stuck with a oversized noise maker. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated