Re: Anyone have a neckboard or a connector for a 19VLUP22?

 Here's something that I haven't seen discussed before. I have a few rejuvenators and have had great success fixing tubes for years now. Some time ago, I had one that the rejuve process didn't help much and I noticed the pins on the neck were pretty tarnished. I tried one of my favorite products, De-oxit and cleaned the pins with a toothbrush and q-tip swab. In just a few minutes, the pins were quite a bit cleaner. Powered the game back up and colors were much brighter. I have added this to my revuve routine ever since.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus@yahoo.com>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Sent: Sun, Jul 18, 2010 8:47 am
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Anyone have a neckboard or a connector for a 19VLUP22?

--- On Sun, 7/18/10, Andrew Welburn <andy@andysarcade.net> wrote:

> I know it might sound like a real

> insult, but i have to ask as i had someone reporting

> similar problems who was convinced it was a tube problem...

> Have you cleaned the face of the CRT and both sides of the

> montor bezel/glass through which you are viewing it?

>

> A suitably dirty/dusty screen will make everything bright

> apear fuzzy and defocussed...

Hehe. Yeah, I cleaned it. This game was really filthy. But yes, I did clean the

tube and both sides of the glass. And it's still fuzzy when looking at the tube

directly, no tinted glass.

I'm positive it's the tube. I've worked with monitors and televisions long

enough to know a worn tube when I see one. The "fuzzy vector" problem is most

pronounced on the green. Blue is weaker than green, and even with the cutoff and

drive controls adjusted for best picture (using the test screen with the

intensity test), the "dim blue" is almost invisible. If I crank stuff up any

further I start to get a dot in the center of that color, then retrace lines.

-Ian

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