/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7007912]

This literally kills the CRTfag.

[Anonymous No.7007975]

>>7007912
Son, have you ever heard of a thing called screwdriver??

[Anonymous No.7008097]

Unlikely.

[Anonymous No.7008104]

I had a CRT monitor that was the most beautiful monitor I've ever seen but now it's having issues. Everyone says to recap it but I'm not fucking around with that shit. I still hold onto it incase I bump into an autist who fixes these things.

[Anonymous No.7008107]

>>7008104
Leave it unplugged for a few months if you're a little bitch.

[Anonymous No.7008116]

>>7008107
It's been unplugged for at least a year. Still not fucking with it.

[Anonymous No.7008119]

>>7008104
Open it up and make sure all the internal cables are seated and not out of place. Don't touch the nipple clamp. Anyone, anywhere, ever who says "recap" is an idiot, unless they're saying it after an actual look at the thing and time to rule things out. I've never "recapped" anything in my life, but I always hear people who are blithering idiots suggest it.

[Anonymous No.7008123]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb6vMgurAH0

[Anonymous No.7008201]

>>7008123
The anode cup isn’t what you should be afraid of, it’s the CRT itself. It acts as a large capacitor, storing an enormous amount of electricity.

[Anonymous No.7008217]

>>7008201
Not after a year, though. He's totally ok now. Could test it by hitting the yoke with a screwdriver and touching a doorknob with the other hand.

[Anonymous No.7008336]

>>7008116
G A Y

[Anonymous No.7008428]

>ITT Missinformation on how dangerous the latent voltage is within a discharged crt.
It's really not that dangerous unless you have a heart condition or something.
Zapped myself on a live neck board once at all it did was hurt and burn my fingerprint off. The only way a crt would kill you without a preexisting condition that makes you vulnerable around electrical zaps, is if you touched the wall power lead before it was processed through the psu. It should be pretty obvious how to avoid that, and if you're that scared, unplug it dummy. If you still afraid of getting zapped (because it does hurt), discharge it. Yes discharging actually works. No the crt can't accumulate static if you separate bot the neck board and the anode cap from it. I'm no physicist, but being able to do that sounds literally impossible.
Youtubers just tell you it will kill you so you can't try to sue them for playing it down when you go and touch live wall power like a fucking tard.
t. amateur repair man.

[Anonymous No.7008603]

>>7008428
How would it compare to being shocked by an electric cattle fence? I've been knocked on my ass by my family's fence a few times and always wondered if it was worse or not as bad as getting zapped by a CRT.

[Anonymous No.7008630]

>>7008603
A CRT is effectively an enormous capacitor. You'd get a huge voltage, maybe not much current, all DC. It probably hurts less than an electric fence, which I believe is pulsed AC. As long as your heart is otherwise healthy, you probably won't get an arrythmia because it's just one big pulse, but it's going to hurt incredibly and probably burn a line where it travels. It's like getting struck by lightning.

[Anonymous No.7008702]

>>7008603
I've been zapped by a temporary electric fence before. used to keep ewes in. The shock I got from the neck board is probably slightly more painful than that. I don't recall the fence burning my prints though so take that as you will.
I imagine a permanent fence is probably a lot more powerful. I couldn't imagine the zap "knocking you on your ass" unless you were messing with things while it was plugged in and turned on. Even then I'm not sure cause I've never actually been dumb enough to leave a crt on while touching the highest voltage elements. Neckboard is up there, but not the highest.

[Anonymous No.7008737]

>>7008603
It’s a strong zap. I had a neck board get me once adjusting the focus on an old Trinitron and it genuinely knocked my arm away from it. Muscles were sore for a few days after that. That one earned me a hospital visit because my wife got worried. I knew I was fine but yeah you don’t wanna let these things bite you. Just be safe about it. CRT preventative maintenance is generally safe since most of that (cleaning, recapping, etc.) can be taken care of when the CRT is discharged and powered off. It’s the adjustments you have to make while powered on that get a little scary. But you probably won’t die.

[Anonymous No.7008750]

>>7007912
>literally
You deserve every stupid little inconvenience that happens to you

[Anonymous No.7008760]

Last year i ve been adjusting convergence and focus on my live trinitron. Getting increasingly annoyed and careless because it took ages to get it right. Reading all your horror stories i m prolly lucky to not get zapped. lol

[Anonymous No.7008771]

Am I the only one who wants to just piss in the hole, then plug it back, stay clear and turn it on?

[Anonymous No.7008805]

>>7008771
It's an electrical contact, not a hole. If you make a hole in a CRT, the vacuum gets out and it doesn't work any more.

[Anonymous No.7008827]

>>7008603
Don't listen to those tards, it depends on hundreds of variables. It depends on what you're wearing, it depends on what your body position is, it depends on fucking everything. There's no set "zap" you're going to get from it, anything could happen and death is a real possibility.

Let me give you an illustration how nonsensical your question is - my friend who was about 9 at the time put both of his hands right around our completely live electric fence, gripping them tightly and got zero shock because of the new rubber-like sneakers he was wearing. Electric fences can also obviously be set to different levels of shock.

Another thing is DC is VASTLY more dangerous than AC because it doesn't let go. I'm pretty sure electric fences are DC, that's the whole reason they're pulsed in electric fences. CRTs will have a DC charge that won't let you go until it's done discharging through you. ACs tend to allow a person or animal go a lot better than straight DC. This isn't live home AC we're dealing with here which has circuit breakers and fuses along the way so you get the odd tarded electrician boasting about the shocks he's gotten - this has zero built in safety to it.

The entire thing this is resting on here is whether or not the CRT is discharged properly. Forget everything else - though 12 months probably makes it a lot safer than if it was used yesterday. If you're determined to go for it I'm sure you could do it in a way that's safe, but you just have to make sure to take all the precautions and have it discharged. That's the whole thing. Also put your hand in your pocket or a similar position to give the current a way to go rather than through your heart. It's as simple as that.

[Anonymous No.7008883]

>>7008805
>vacuum gets out

[Anonymous No.7009124]

>>7008805
>vacuum gets out

[Anonymous No.7009231]

>>7008119
There arent THAT many things to rule out before bad capacitors are the top culprit though. If you open it up and don't see any obvious problems then capacitors are higher on the list than just about any other possible problem.

[Anonymous No.7009254]

>>7008104
https://www.danielstvservice.com/

There is people like that.
This is a broken one i have. I want to get it fixed one day too.

[Anonymous No.7009818]

>>7009254
I don't really trust traditional TV repair shops anymore. I took it to a TV repair shop that bragged about how it could fix any type of TV and their techs had 40 years of experience. In the phone call they basically asked if I was crazy for wanting to fix a tube TV, then when I took it in they said "It's arcing through the pins it can't be fixed".

>>7008119
Just gunna wait till I find a retro autist who actually specializes in this shit.

[Anonymous No.7009972]

I was getting cataract shit out of a classic CRT terminal the other day, I used one of these to zap the anode, and the layout of this terminal made it a bitch to get into, so its length was a big help. Just clip a ground to it and get in there. It also helped me get the anode cap off since there was an extra piece of metal around the prongs that got in the way.

https://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/H1/90-pick/

[Anonymous No.7009980]

>>7009818
Yeah you honestly shouldn’t trust TV repair shops. They have no interest in repairing CRTs. They have interest in replacing small, cheap components in modern TVs to turn a good profit. Nothing wrong with that but that’s the way it is. If you want to fix this kind of stuff I suggest studying it as extensively as you can and doing it yourself.

[Anonymous No.7010097]

>>7007912
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2-b88cMhUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAN7fLMXYeY

[Anonymous No.7010507]

>>7008104
Just google tv repair near me

[Anonymous No.7010518]

>>7010507
No

[Anonymous No.7010546]

>>7009980
Fortunate enough to have a lot of CRT autist here in Cali. Savon Pat(most expensive, last resort) is an 1.5 hours away from me, have another guy in San Diego 2 hours away(serviced and calibrated my PVM) and a guy who works on VGA Monitors(mostly FW900s) about 40min away from me.

[Anonymous No.7011083]

>>7010546
How much do those repairs run, typically?

[Anonymous No.7012512]

>>7010546
I'm in LA and I have a large CRT that needs fixin' up but I also need to get rid of it. Know anyone that would be interested in taking the thing off my hands?

[Anonymous No.7012574]

>>7012512
Or a place where you can drop these things off so that someone else can dependably pick it up if they want it.

[Anonymous No.7012680]

>>7012512
Depending on what part of LA you can just leave it out in on the sidewalk and the scrappers will pick them up. Or you can call the sanitation department, you get 1 free bulky item pickup all you have to do is call at least one day before trash day.

[Anonymous No.7013558]

>>7010546
who's the guy in San Diego? North County here

[Anonymous No.7013578]

>>7008119
t. knows nothing about arcade crt monitors