RE: WG Color XY Tubes

From: <jwelser_at_ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 20 1998 - 11:29:59 EDT

On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Todd Miller wrote:

> So what do you get with the tube ? Does it come with yoke/deflection
> coils
> or the magnetic slip rings assembly ? I am just curious how involved it
> would
> be to replace the tube, dealing with purity, convergence, aligning of
> the
> yoke, etc...I have an Asteroids cocktail with bad burn and have thought
> about replacing the tube.
>

        It doesn't come with any of that stuff.

        You take it off of your old tube and put it on the new tube.

        Converging a tube is like adjusting all those pots on an Atari
color XY game, and getting them perfect, only harder. But, it's a
kind of "tedious hard" where you just have to mess around with everything
until it is set right.

Joe
Received on Tue Oct 20 10:30:04 1998

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