What's Your Must Have Gear For Monitor Repair!?

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Hey guys,

New to the forum, I have read through the monitor section for the last 6 months or so and thought it was about time I joined up! I notice there are a lot of competent monitor techs on here, some of which do it for a living!

I am doing my best to learn some skills in this area as well. I was wondering what tools you think are essential, couldn't live without? And what other things are worth investing in?

Any reads/watches that you found helpful?
 
A known good tube for the chassis that you are working on.

+1 for that. I do repairs on K7000's for people on here and some locally, and I have a spare 25" tube and 19" tube for testing chassis' on. Also very basic essentials are a multimeter and soldering iron/station.
 
Thanks guys! I guess it is essential to know the tube is good!

I have a DMM, ESR meter and a reasonable soldering iron. My HV probe is a make shift screwdriver and croc clip! I have discharged around 25 so far but have never heard a primary click! I have had them click on the way back in, recovered some charge but all the chassis I must have worked on are self discharging! I obviously would never trust this to be the case!

The brand I will be working on is a tough one, both on complexity and availability of parts. But they are the best IMO and I have Jap candy cabs so they all go hand in hand! Its going to be Nanao :( No flybacks/lopts are available for these!

I have all but 1 of the tubes needed for these now!

Has anybody read through Jomacs essential monitor repairs? Or have a copy of it! I know he is MR Nanao but not sure I can justify the very high cost for only one make of monitor!
 
My HV probe is a make shift screwdriver and croc clip!

Not a HV probe; that's a CRT discharging tool. A HV probe indicates the voltage (in kV), sometimes the readout is on the probe itself, and others connect to a standard DMM for readout (x1000).

And I'd add non-metalic adjusting tools to the list.
 
Personally, a de-soldering iron is essential for me. I like the Radio Shack one (about $8).

I use a tube tester, DMM, and HV probe most often. The HV probe is kind of a luxury item if you aren't a pro, but once you have one, you never want to go back.
 
Thanks, I was thinking it was a discharge tool! I should probably look into one then as they don't seem so steep some versions. Anything that is a must have with them?
 
Well, it works like a discharge tool if you want - you can just watch the voltage drain off to nothing. They don't tend to make the 'snap' or 'pop' that a screwdriver does.

There are some applications/monitors where you actually want to measure the high voltage.
 
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