 Hopefully today will be a little bit better than it was a few days ago when this Sony PVM was shipped in. Now this was shipped in by a Patreon member who hoped to have this serviced and unfortunately they went to a local FedEx in their area and they said in the FedEx store that they could pack this PVM correctly and of course you can tell that was not done right and FedEx shipped it and it was one of the worst breaks. Obviously the bezel is just completely destroyed but the bigger problem is check out the main board in here it's been just demolished a whole chunk of it right there is broken down smashed its way down in there and now we even have an inductor that's broken off the main board I think probably right there is where it broke off maybe. Since FedEx packed it in-house they did pay the claim on it to the client so they were able to collect the insurance money but outside of individually salvaged in this for parts it's gonna be difficult to get much of use out of it it literally is nothing more than a few parts that are really good. That was a poorly packed one I didn't do a video of the unboxing this one is mine it is a Sony PVM only an eight incher but it is the higher resolution model hopefully it survived this was a three-day ground shipment from UPS this was an eBay purchase and I bought this one because it has a specific problem that's pretty fixable the documented is fixable and it was a good deal for it but I'm just hoping that it didn't get destroyed here because it looks like it got run over by a truck or something on this corner let's get it down into the shop and we'll cut it open we're in the shop and I'm just going to open this box and hopefully the CRT's made it all I've done is open to the first layer that did have the address label so I won't show you that but not much at all I'm inside the box a couple layers of paper and that's it and it's a single wall box you can see right there not double walled bottom of the bezel looks okay power button looks okay and look at this so looks like according to Ray Chasis 1993 new tube installed in 2004 so that's a good sign hopefully all right let's look at the front side hopefully nothing's busted all right I mean let's see it looks like I don't hear anything rumbling around that's a great sign something weird I do feel is check this out man we've got like packing peanuts some packing peanuts down here in our battery bay you can hear it come on and the 15 kilohertz wine start to go there and I do feel some static on the tube and look at that I see our picture coming up and as it sits it's working quite nicely right no issues with this screen even the geometry looks great the colors are sharp and it does again have the 450 line tube which is higher resolution than the others but it's supposed to have an issue all right this is the issue that was listed it's that we don't have any color in composite or even as video mode I've switched over to composite real quickly to demo this but that's what I saw in the listing of this monitor and it's the reason it was discounted and sold to me at just under $160 so yeah that's the issue we have gray scale and we don't have any color where we should have color not any kind of button problem let's see if we can't get this corrected well after doing some research I found a nice video from RGB Rob so thank you Rob he did a lengthy video on how to repair this exact problem and we're going to zoom in here at some parts I'm poking around at on the color board again this board on the right hand side of the CRT tube and down here towards this bottom corner there's these two potentiometers Sony put out a bulletin saying that these potentiometers have a problem there tend to they tend to fail and cause gray scale and the past I've done videos about this problem and I've my solution was always to just reflow solder on this entire board in those videos and then that would solve the problem and so that made me wonder is what if it's just these two potentiometers and the solder on them is definitely going bad and that's maybe the reason that it's happening it's just bad solder all right these are the two potentiometers right here and you could see I've still got some flux residue on here where I had reflowed the solder on both those points and I think we're ready to do a test now and see if that makes any difference if it doesn't then we'll go through and do the full repair according to Rob's video okay so this is Super Nintendo hooked up through S video which had the grayscale problem that we showed same thing anything that was in composite or S video had the grayscale problem and now we've got all our colors back so all we needed to do was reflow the solder so I would actually recommend you do that before going and order it and replacing those parts try this first and see if it'll fix your grayscale monitor yeah so here's our S video connection going to the Super Nintendo now we're going to use a composite video signal coming from a Sega Genesis and we can switch inputs and see how that works ah look at their composite video blue green white we've definitely got all our colors here that's the 240p test suite running so this is this is all good all right everybody thank you for joining me today I do appreciate it please if you have any questions or comments leave them below I will tell you that I've got two more of this exact same monitor on the way with this problem the grayscale problem just like this one and we shall do tests and see if those two can be repaired simply by reflowing that solder and if you enjoyed the video please do leave me a like I will see you guys next time with some more retro content