RE: WG Color XY Tubes

I haven't done any convergence/purity work for a color xy game yet
(although I did buy a tube for my tempest) but I've done several color
raster games. I bought a brand new tube for Gauntlet from Richardson
Electronics and it took me less than an hour to get it right. The trick,
for me, is to first pull the yoke back just far enough so there's no color
impurity in the corners (a solid red screen is the best to look at) - then
adjust the rings, with the tabs starting at zero correction - then move
the ring assembly up and down the tube until everything is uniform. The
only tricky part for me is to angle the yoke itself so that the
cross-hatch pattern is perfectly straight. For me - nothing looks better
than a game with a brand new tube in it.

Matt

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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.
>
>
> Todd Miller, IT Operations Dept.
> Ron Weber and Associates
> 103 E. State Street, Mason City, IA 50401
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Jenison [SMTP:jenison@cig.mot.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 9:46 AM
> To: vectorlist@mcfeeley.cc.utexas.edu
> Subject: Re: WG Color XY Tubes
>
> Richardson Electronics is about an hour from where I work. I've
> picked up a
> tube for an Asteroids Deluxe cocktail from them before. If we
> would have
> thought of this earlier, maybe we could have set something up
> with the people
> who are in town for the pinball expo this weekend and they could
> have brought
> some back to their respective areas. Oh well, just a thought.
>
>
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Received on Tue Oct 20 11:27:03 1998