Re: Looking for a tube socket for Gravitar

Looking back on the original message, it reads:
   

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.

So his problem is the SOCKET not the tube. The socket he's describing isn't what you would normally find in an arcade monitor. It sounds like the socket has NO actual pin holes, just spring metal contact that slide onto the CRT. The CRT doesn't have actual pins like a normal tube.

At least that sounds like what he meant.

Mark Shostak (DOS) wrote:

>
>
> I believe he was referring to replacing the plastic shroud installed
> _over the pins_ on the end of the crt, not the *pins* themselves.
>
> Replacing the shroud would allow one to use a different socket,
> presumably in better condition and easier to find then the original.
>
>
>
> WHOA! You don't go messing with tube pins, he meant swapping tube
> SOCKET pins. If your problem is with the tube itself it's
> replacement time.
>
>
> Commander Dave wrote:
>
>>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
>>
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>You might also switch to a raster style base cap...
>>

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Received on Fri Jan 24 12:19:19 2003