Re: Looking for a tube socket for Gravitar

Here¹s a few pictures:

http://64.192.41.141/wg6100/

...I¹ve had the same problem. I think one _could_ pry off the white plastic
end of the tube and reveal the more common pin-only arrangement, but I for
one am going to look for fixing up my socket first.

-Douglas

PS. I am still looking for a yoke for this monitor if anyone has one to
sell. Thanks.

on 1/24/03 4:47 PM, Commander Dave at cmdr-dave@spamcop.net wrote:

> I'll post a picture tonight to show everyone, but there are no "pins" on the
> tube... just the metal slide things with the spring loaded ones in the socket
> itself.
>
> Thanks,
> -Commander Dave
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Rodger Boots <mailto:rlboots@cedar-rapids.net>
>> To: vectorlist@synthcom.com
>> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 2:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: VECTOR: 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 19:18:59 2003