Re: Looking for a tube socket for Gravitar

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't even know it was possible to change out
the types of pins on a tube... thought it was kind of "integrated" in
there... Anyway, I'll have a good look at that as I have two old TV's
sitting down in the basement now. I am not much of a purist on the Gravitar
as it isn't totally mint like my Lunar Lander.

By the way, I need a coin cover for my Lunar Lander! It's the metal lid that
goes on the coin bucket. I think most of the Atari's is the same. Needs to
be mint condition (no dents or bends). Anyone? Anyone? :-)

Anyway, I am going to try to see if I can do the "steal the pin" trick
Curtis mentioned first. Might be easier...

Thanks to all for the suggestions!
-Commander Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Johnson" <nej@airmail.net>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 5:57 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Looking for a tube socket for Gravitar

> You might also switch to a raster style base cap. This would require
> pulling a neck board socket from a G07, 4600, 4900, Nintendo, or old TV
> set (my favorite) and using it to replace the socket on the WG6100
> neckboard. Then find a raster style base cap to put on the tube. I've
> done this with a hybrid amplifone/wg monitor (used amplifone tube/yoke
> with WG6100 electronics after replacing the socket on the neckboard).
>
> Noel
>
> "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Another possibility... is if the connector has more pins than is
actually
> > wired/used, you may be able to do some surgery and steal a pin from an
> > unused spot and put it in the spot where the broken one is....
> >
> > Just an idea... however, it may be all pins are needed.
> >
> > -- Curt
> >
> > >From: "Commander Dave" <cmdr-dave@spamcop.net>
> > >To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
> > >Subject: VECTOR: Looking for a tube socket for Gravitar
> > >Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:34:26 -0600
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> > >Greetings all,
> > >
> > >While fixing up my Gravitar, I noticed that the monitor would drop out,
but
> > >if you bumped it the picture would come back. Decided to do a cap kit
> > >(needed it anyway), but when I pulled of the neckboard, I found one of
the
> > >metal connectors in the tube socket had broken. The tube doesn't have
pins,
> > >but rather a slide type job... never seen one.
> > >
> > >Anyway, it don't look like it can be fixed, so I was wanting to know if
> > >anyone has one of these tube sockets? Or are these common and I could
order
> > >one? Scrap from a TV shop maybe?
> > >
> > >All suggestions appreciated,
> > >-Commander Dave
> > >
> > >
> >
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