 Hey Brian Harmon, Slayer 1, and Mega Cards. Thank you all for being here with me today. It's been, oh man it's been a whirlwind. Just getting some last second stuff reset here. I've had one heck of a good troublesome time messing with my streaming setup for about the last week. I kind of mentioned it in the last stream I was able to pull off before that system went into complete meltdown and crashed out on me. Hey Artemio, thanks for coming in today. Good to see you. That's exciting. I didn't know Artemio would be here. Welcome everybody. Just getting again some last second things set up. I'll go through what was a very busy week last week. I can't believe it. I actually looked back and I've had to work every day since the holiday, which is fine. I'm glad to be able to have that kind of work coming in, but so since July 5th till the 17th I've been working every day, so I've been like losing track of time a little bit. So I have, actually I went through and fixed four CRTs last week, PVMs, and that's what we're going to go through here. Now my boiler just kicked on, but I think my mic's doing good of blocking that sound out. So we're not going to worry about that too much. Absolutely Artemio, community effort indeed. So Artemio, most of you already know, is the mastermind behind all this amazing software that we have to calibrate these screens. And I know that I wouldn't be able to do half the things that I can do without the things that he provides. So I'm a big supporter of his work. Love it. So thank you, Artemio. All right, so first things, what you see here is the Sony PVM1350, first off. That's this monitor and it's been running great since that restoration, which most of you guys would have seen and you know that pickup video I had, which most people watched, and then there was a video I released last Friday that was a follow-up on this particular monitor and how we got it fixed. It's all ready to go. It's completely good, everything on it. Power supply's been serviced, the neckboard's been serviced, and of course the deflection board. The 14-inch plate fork. I have some more people rolling in here. Let me get back to this view where I can at least have myself in the discussion here. So yeah, just a follow-up on a couple things from that shipping video. If I wasn't clear on it, there was a 14M, which is, this was the most depressing one of all those. I was really, really hoping that the 14M4U was going to make it because I felt like it was in good enough condition where I could make a decent CRT out of it because I was going to do a full restoration on it and I was really, really hoping things were going to be good because the seller was very communicative, like would answer any question pretty much immediately. But the problem was, so here's what happened. I sent out an offer to where it was going to cost me $500 total to have it shipped to me. It was a 14M4U that was tested working, didn't really show much on the condition of the picture or anything. It was just one of those that had the menus pulled up on the picture. And I sent an offer and sometimes the seller's not going to accept this offer because I think it was like $150 less than they were asking and they accepted it. And I was a little bit bummed because I was leaving town like the next day. So I sent the seller message. I said, hey, I really, really want this monitor if you want to do this deal, but I have to have you hold the shipping. I don't care if you mark it as shipped in eBay if you need to, but please do not ship it till this certain date. That way I know I'll be there and FedEx or UPS, I can't remember who had that one. I think it was UPS. They won't have it an extremely long time. So he says, oh, yes, yes, yes, I promise I'll have it. I'll wait, I'll pack it and I'll send it to you when you're on your trip. Well, next thing I know I'm halfway, I'm out of town and it's like three days, four days before the date I asked him to ship it and it's marked as shipped. And I was like, what the heck? What the heck just happened? So I reached out and I said, Hey, did you ship this because I asked you not to and you said you would hold it. And he said, Oh, I'm sorry. I did ship it. And then I knew it was going to be a kind of troublesome from there because then UPS had it already. There was no way to get it back from them. So they held it in like a ground shipping warehouse that's near here. I say near here, but it's two hours drive from where I live in Virginia. And so, of course, the monitor was set to arrive before I was even coming before the date I even gave him to ship it. And so he had to call and have it held. And of course, it was packed in that terrible box and it didn't survive. So it was a double double whammy. So anyway, he or it was a guy because I saw the shipping label. He again, was very communicative. But I told him, I was like, man, that you know, once it showed up in that terrible box, and I unboxed it and it was all busted. I was like, I am not keeping this unless he's like completely donating it for parts. So I just sent a message or I put in for a return, right? When that happened, I put immediately I file for return. And you could do that by going into your eBay purchase for that item, clicking return. And it'll say reason because a lot of people don't accept returns. But if you click on there that it was damaged in shipping, which is one of the options, it starts to return no matter what. So I start that I send him pictures and I send him a message just I don't know what happened, man, but this package was not done right. And it, you know, is obviously sent in the wrong scheduling, but it's no good and I don't want it. And I want my money back. And he said, okay, no problem. I just need you to ship it to me. And I was like, you've got to be kidding me. You really want this thing back? I didn't say anything. But that's how the return went, right? It was like, eBay offered me a return label and said you could ship it back. And then once it arrives within a week, after arrival or three or four days, we'll give you a refund no matter what. So he sends me a label. Hey, hey, Dell, how's it going? He's and James Boone, Marv, Yannick, Roll Pat, Steph and C, Plate Fork. Thank you everybody for showing up. So again, we're talking about the first M4U that was in my shipping video about eBay unboxings, the one that was destroyed, kind of some backstory on it. So I'm in the middle of a return with eBay. They sent me a label. The problem is you saw the box. If you go back and watch that video, it's this terrible box of just like a used box that was a dollar box to begin with. And I had to rip it down the side to get the monitor out of it. It was filled with packing peanuts. Now thankfully I had a used box that was a little bigger, but they said to ship it back. And I was like, I can't if like if I bought this, how am I supposed to ship this back unless I have another box? So thankfully I had a bigger box. I opened that box. It was a used box. It was one of the ones that the 2030s in the next part of that video was shipped in. It was the better one of those two. I took the whole thing, just put it in that box, added some more packing peanuts because he loved them so much. And then I just closed it up, put a label on it, the label they gave me. And I took it and I had to go drop it off at my own at a FedEx store. And I just dropped it off and said, here's the label. They started asking me questions. I said, I don't know, give me a receipt saying you took it. It's got a label on it. And because I was at this point kind of frustrated, right? You know, you have to do all that extra things. So I did all that. The monitor was shipped back to him. I never heard anything until literally like the day before you can ask eBay to generate the refund. Like there's a date the seller has to generate the refund by once they receive the package in returns. If they don't send it, you can tell eBay and they'll just take it right out of their account. So that's ultimately what happened. The day before the deadline, he paid me back the money. And I never heard from it again. And that will kind of lead into the second one. If you remember, then there were the two 2030s. One came in good shape. One I did want to kind of return, but I wound up keeping that had a little bit more damage and cracks and stuff to it and was missing the power button. But when I reached out for a return on that one, it was the same deal. The seller wouldn't do anything besides take a full return for me to ship it back to him. And so I just said, forget it. I'm actually going to keep that one and I'll just fix it and give him bad feedback. So that's why I gave him bad feedback for it because they were just kind of a pain in the neck to deal with too. But those, that's a little follow up there. And then there was this 1350, which showed up perfectly. But it was, you know, it had all the issues, but it's been a fun repair. That was number one, though, on the repair list from the repairathon from last week. Hey, Koala Koa, thank you for coming in. I've got a BVM here from him that we'll get working on this week. But so that's it. Also, please remember that I will be live at Retro World Expo this August. So we're getting really close to this. We're like five or six weeks away, which I'm really excited about going there. I will be at the convention hanging out on the coattails of Bob from Retro RGB and everybody within that group. And I'm sure I'll be around like my life of gaming, I think we'll be there. So I'll be hanging around with them and Tito from Macho Nacho, he'll be there. So I'm sure I'll see Kim and a lot of other people that I'm not entirely sure who's coming who's not coming besides who's already announced on the list. And so I will be there. And if anybody can be there, I hope you can make it and come say hello and hang out. And this PVM that you see is probably, I don't know whether it's going to be there or not, because I'm about to list it as a sale item for sale. Oh, great. Awesome. Koala. Glad to see that. Says he'll be there. So I'm excited because if this one sells before then, then I try to find a different one to bring. I'm definitely going to bring some PVMs with me to play games on at the tables in the convention. So I usually just bring stuff and then piggyback off somebody else's power. So hopefully somebody's going to be there in a booth near us this year so we could steal their power and not have to pay for it because this convention last year, I know they were making you pay extra like $150 to use their electricity. And Laser Bear was there. It was nice enough to give me a plug. So we were able to use his power, but isn't that crazy? They charge you extra for electricity. I can't remember the exact amount. I want to say it was like $150 or so. Might have been $75, not sure. But anyway, if this is available, it will be there. And if not, something else will be there. So we've got that ready. But that's another event announcement, Retro World Expo in Hartford, Connecticut, last weekend in August. Come hang out. Now, before we get into some actual files here, I need to open them up on my secondary screen over here. And while I was setting up for today's show, I was trying to get the camera adjusted for, gosh, just focus on the CRT that you're looking at. And I was using a different camera. Now, this camera is five generally, but the problem is it takes so much, it's like so much assets are allocated to it when you're using it that my streams don't work with it. It's been crashing my systems because I have like four cameras set up here. And I'm using a, oh my goodness, how many USB devices am I even using a lot? They're all running through USB. We've got two monitors set up. And yeah, three different USB cameras systems. The Focusrite audio system runs ultimately through USB. And then you plug this guy in. And it's like, you know, just every time crashes the system. So I'm not sure I'm putting that away. That was not coming back. And just thought show off this old shirt. Look at this. I pulled this out of storage. This is a seriously classic Grateful Dead t-shirt that I bought before I graduated even high school when I was on spring break in Panama City, Florida, when that was the cool thing to do was go to Panama City, Florida. And by yourself, you go to these hemp shops with things down there and buy yourself a $50 t-shirt. Now this one's a mess. You can see it's got holes. Both armpits. Literally almost 25 years old this shirt. But I wanted to bust it out today because why not? So awesome looking, right? Kind of like how I feel spaced out in my head after dealing with things. Hey, Kat Krescher. Thanks for joining. Yeah, stream. We stream here. We're trying to get on a schedule. So that's another thing. And I'd like some feedback on how many of you guys and gals and how many of you actually watch the stream of my life in gaming? Are there a lot of you? Hey, Travis. Yeah, still fits barely, right? Um, so let's see here. What was I in the middle of? Yeah, how many guys? If you guys, I was thinking about on Sunday streaming kind of before those guys go online with their streams, maybe doing like a pre-show. I'm not sure. I thought that would be a good time to like get some streaming numbers up. And I see some of you guys do. Thanks. It's like I was thinking that would be a good time. It's like a pre-show for them. So I'm going to try that a couple of times, I believe coming up. It's just really I've got to get this system stabilized. I think it's going to work. And then it just crashes out. Like I said, I believe I had a nail down to that camera issue because I built three different PCs and they kept crashing and I was like, you know what, it must be this camera at this point. So that was just a question. If you think about that. Hey Shane. Thank you. We'll do that. We'll try that streaming schedule. So what we're going to do though is we're going to look more. I had some really great things happen last week as far as work in the shop. So obviously we had the 1350 you've been seeing. It's good. But let's go back to this first job. And usually when someone does a job with me, they get a file like this nowadays. If you did work, if I did work for you a couple of years back or over a year ago, I probably haven't done this, but now I have to pay for cloud storage space so I could host thousands of pictures and files. And it's all just a basically a car facts record of people's PVMs. So for example, this but this first job was on a set of just boards. And this is what you usually get a service notes bulletin kind of explaining all the things that were done in your repair or restoration, the date that had happened, some notes go through this in a little bit. If we go back here to the file, let me show you just we'll go through the timeline here first. So let's look at some lovely photos. These were the boards that were sent to me. This is a set of boards from a Sony PVM 14L2 monitor. And that is a PVM that is one of the last PVMs I've featured at many times on the channel on both streams recently, as well as full length videos. So there's not a lack of content. If you type in Sony PVM L2 into YouTube, you'll find some good explanations of all the good things about this monitor. But what had happened is this was around May, middle of May, I was receiving messages from a Patreon member. And he said, I have a 14L2. And I would like to do the cap kit on it. And I said, well, that's good timing, because I literally just restoring this other 14L2 with a cap kit. And it was I considered the experimental phase where I haven't done that particular cap kit on more than five 14L2s. I think we're just getting right now to the fifth 14L2 that I've done it on. And that means that it's more of an like the beyond just experimental phase. Because until it's been done enough, it's kind of one of the reasons I put up the wall of being a Patreon member to get cap kit lists. Those lists, you take that list and it's up to you to do things correctly, right? Or to take that list. And then a lot of times you got to compare that list with your actual board. And there may be something different on your specific board that's on the cap list. And if it's not mentioned as being a switch from that part that you see on your board, there's a good reason that you should keep whatever's on your board and just replace that if it looks like it was installed in the factory. So that's just like some warnings. You got to really have some knowledge a little bit and know your way a little bit around electronics really before you should try to get into a job like this because this was this was a gentleman who basically jumped head first into a CRT restoration and just got a little bit too far in over his head to begin with. And he got the cap kit and had the tools and went in and installed the capacitors. It's not even a big cap kit on this particular monitor, but he installed the capacitors. And when he did, he said he installed the monitor back or put the monitor back together. And when he did, he heard a pop and then it didn't turn on again. And so I got the boards in. And one of the very first things I checked was I took my multimeter and this picture doesn't make a lot of sense here to begin with. But what it is, is it's Q5 1506, which is, I don't need to do that, which is the main hot transistor. So that's the horizontal output transistor, which is like one of the main five parts that has to be working for PV or any CRT to be powering on. That's a color CRT that has horizontal horizontal sink or horizontal picture at all. It's got to have this hot working. So there's the bad one. There's the good one. Now the first thing I did was the boards came in like they were. And the the hot is right down here and I'm circling it with my cursor right now. And I took my multimeter and I put it in continuity mode, which is a simple mode to test. This is a good test for people to try out. You put your meter just this is a nice meter. I will admit, you know, I bought myself a nice meter. I love good tools. So you don't have to have this meter for years. I used a much cheaper $30 when I got from the hardware store. But you put it in continuity mode and all that simply does is gives you a beeping noise and it opens reading when you're when you're tracing down something. And if there's continuity, you know that the trace is connected. So I put this in continuity mode and I probed every one of the legs before I even removed it from the chassis, every one of the legs back here on this hot, the bad one. So I just touched it and everything beeped. So everything was open. There was nothing closed. Everything was connected in sequence. That told me it was blown because if I tested a good one, it would not act like that at all. Some of these most of these ways would be closed. There may be one or two ways open pathways. But I knew then that this part was at least blown. My next concern was what caused that to blow? And ultimately, is there anything else bad before it, right? So after I knew this was bad, there it is removed. Now to remove it, you simply desolder it here. And then you remove that screw right there on the heat sink and pull it off. Okay, there's the underside of that part and the V is right there. So I could take my multimeter and literally plug these holes with that part in and see that they were all in the same continuity path. Now I did inspect some more and these two caps were, this is where we got into the user error. These two caps were in the cap kit list, but they had been installed in the wrong spots. And this one, the 220-25 was in a crucial spot where the capacitor was completely different. I want to say it was like a 50 volt 10 and this 25 volt 220 was installed. And then the 25 volt 100 was installed in a spot where it called for a 50 volt capacitor. So I found that those two were wrong. I removed them and installed the correct capacitors. And then I checked all the solder points and everything looked fine. But one of the last things I had to do, and there's an installation of that new Q chip right there, I installed a new hot. But what I had to go around and do on the rest of this board after that was I had to keep my meter in continuity mode and then check for grounds, shorts to ground. So there's always grounds on these boards and they're all connected in like a ground loop. So you should be able to put a point of your multimeter on a ground and then connect it to another place on the board and check if there's continuity. If there's continuity and you look at it, it should say it's a ground. If there's continuity and there's not it's not a ground, then that's a possibility for your part being bad. If it's that means it's shorting to ground literally. So that's how you do that. You systematically go through and you check all the ends of all the components pretty much in the other side of the board. But that's it. So there's that capacitor I reinstalled. That's the new one 50 volt 100 and oh this was the other capacitor that was in the wrong. It was a 50 volt 100 and it was a 220 just looking at the bottom there. There's the boards all fixed up. And this was really the best part of this. So I had no idea. I did all that checking to grounds. I didn't find a single part that was shorting out. So you'll notice that in the service notes, if I told the client, I don't know if this is going to work because I don't have the monitor with me. I said you could power this thing up and it just won't come on for all I know. But thankfully, he powered it up and it worked. And again, just sending the boards, I repaired them and this was the aftershot I got. And the monitor's been working great. He said since. So you know, this was a lucky one. This one was one where the boards weren't so bad and I could actually save it. I was able to find the problems. However, I've had the same thing happen where people shift boards before we not been able to find the exact error or we've made repairs and they've gotten damaged in shipping on return shipping. And it's something that probably could have been avoided by if you are going to do a repair on a CRT, you need to progressively get up to this. You don't need to just start on your PVM. Try something that's a little less valuable. And that's just a little bit of tips on there. So that's pretty much it for the 14 L2. Did anybody have any questions about that? That was again one where we had a board issue and it was just the boards being sent to me. Let's go back here and look at the service notes quickly. Here's the service dates of 7.6. And just to give you an idea of what these look like. Let's zoom in a little bit. How about that? Pretesting diagnosis, parts found to be bad. Like I said, Q 1506. Installed the new parts, parts found to be installed incorrectly. Those two capacitors installed new capacitors, rework solder on all the other capacitors, cleaned the board, checked for faults and shorts. No more found. Checked the neck board. Everything is good on that. I think everything sounded pretty professional until I got to that line. I spent a couple of special notes here. I spent a couple of hours working on the boards, did a lot of component testing, found one bad transistor. I also found some spots on the board that needed solder, reef working, reflow. I repaired those solder joints. I found two capacitors from the repair kit list that were incorrect values from the kit. I removed those, installed the proper value capacitors. I did a final component check on the board. I could not find any other shorts or issues. Please note, I can't guarantee this repair on this PVM blah, blah, blah. I told you all that. Hey, Abes. Good to see you. Yes, Marv. Great point. 99% of the delicate electronic work like this truly is making sure you use the right parts going back together and not shortening to ground while soldering. Absolutely. Because, unfortunately, when it comes to electricity, if there's a short that's not supposed to be there, you know, all it takes is one time of turning it on and you can blow out stuff that sometimes you can't save the item. So it's just a great point right there. I recommend that you always go back and triple check your work. I do it still. And I do this all the time. I did four repairs in a week. So, or four different CRTs a week. And every time I go over and check them, check them, check them, check them, check them, check them, check them, check them, check them as much as I can. So, always before you put power into it. And that's why you see me, I clean the board so much, that's so I can give a good inspection. You guys often asked about, I get often asked about cleaning. Yeah, James, definitely good to start with consoles. And I would even start with something not as valuable as that. Because that's a tough one to do too, the PC engine, because there's usually surface mount capacitors in there. So you may want to just go, I always recommend trying to find something that's just crap that you don't care about at all. And if it works, that's even better. And you can take it apart and test on it and just get yourself used to tooling, get yourself used to solder, use just temperatures and how to use your tools. You know, I often go to thrift stores with people and you can find great items in thrift stores and secondhand pawn shops and things like that that are good candidates that cost less than $30 that you could still just work on. It has capacitors in it. Just needs to be something from like the hunt is finding something like the 90s. Lots of audio equipment, for example. There's always a lot of capacitors in there. You don't even have to buy new caps. You could just pull the old ones and replace them with the same caps. It's just getting the actual procedure down and experience. Because then you have the other important side of that of trying to learn what a lot of these things are doing and learn your way around electronics. And that's something that takes an extremely long time. I'm not going to lie. I have very little professional background in electronics beyond what I've done myself here with this business. I had a job for two years where I did have to do electrical electrical work on it. And so that was it. But that was like right after college. That was a service job right after college. And then I basically didn't do it for 15 years. So you can always learn this. Thankfully, I have plenty of resources out there. But great questions. Thank you so much for those. Let's go on. We're on. So that's the first two of last week. And let's go down here and we're looking in the drive folder. The next one. Now this was a fun one. Maybe we should go through the services just to talk about what was done on this one first. Because this one got a lot of servicing. This was a 1344 cube. And thank you Chris for bringing this in. Ah, junk duo. Good. That's good. If it's a junk duo for like 45 bucks, perfect. Or you can work your way up to that and try to actually fix it. But yeah, I've seen plenty of you guys posting pictures of your mods and stuff. I know like on Twitter and stuff. And you guys do great work. Most people don't post pictures of their work that's ugly. But there's some things that's always best to leave to professionals. And I honestly say that if there's nothing wrong, I got people who are some of the best in the world at what they do and they send me their stuff. And vice versa. I'm not an expert on certain things. And I'd rather just send it to them and keep everybody in the community employed. All right. So here we go. Now if you get, like I say, a PVM service to the shop, we get this, you get this notes, right? It's got your serial number there. And that way, you know, like if you ever sold your mod or you can say, look, I had a special specialty done, you could send someone could buy this, be buying the CRT and send me an email and say, Hey, did you do this work and send me the sheet or send me the serial number? And I'd say, yeah, you know what I actually did. But anyway, 1344 Q here was the complaints on this one had a slight to burn, not a very big one, slight to burn and then worked. But you know, it's a 1344 Q this is a 1989. Yeah, this is the year Michael Keaton was first playing Batman, I believe it's like a long time ago for an electronics device. And so just some normal maintenance on this thing. So beyond that, we had the tube burnt. So this was a Chris made it, we're talking about your PVM right now. So the 1344 Q got a replacement tube installed that had no burn. And this was a tube that had really great emissions. Before my CRT tester took a crap on me. And I think I'm going to speak of sending that out, I want to talk to Andy King about sending that tester to him and try to have him look at it. But the so there was an issue where we wanted to change in a new tube. Thankfully, I had a tube and again, that was tested high on the emission scale had no burn. So I was able to install that tube and do all these other things. We're going to look at the service file though from this one. And we'll open that at the end like we did last time. So this was what the monitor looked like. This is going to be a good before and after look at it. So this is the 1344 Q right here as it was in the shop. And good monitor. Here's again, you could tell this monitor, the number on here matches the paperwork. Hey, P.O. Thanks for coming. Now this is one that has this anode cap that's epoxy, you'll notice, right? Remember that? Okay. So that has to be dealt with. And then all the boards need to be serviced in here. This is what it looks like again at the beginning. There's even a little bit of rust peeking through that I did try to clean out as possible on the shielding. Fortunately, I had no replacement shielding here for this one. Or I would have just installed it. But you can look here. Again, we have this model number that matches our documentation. So anytime you see a tag like this, unless there's been swapped out for another part, it should match the same number. And there's a lot of times these parts are swapped. Let's face it. I had to swap it on the other one. I'll show you in a minute. So this was an interesting fact about this particular CRT. It has this crazy. Hey, Don Honk. Yeah, it is today. We'll see what happens. We'll see if the PC stays up. Hopefully it will. I'm always hopeful. So this particular PVM has this crazy contraption on the side. This is an 80s thing and 80s and early 90s thing the PVM's had. It's it's like high voltage resistor transistor or resistor I'm sorry assembly in this poured block filled with this gelatin that's hardened that's protecting the circuit so you can't really get to it. And it intersects the flyback right in the middle. Now this particular one is pretty solid doesn't have the problems that the other versions of this with this block do like the 2530 but it is here. So that's why it looks different. It's mounted to the side. And this is what the tube looked like pre any adjustments. You can't really see the burn. It's really difficult to take pictures of solid screens and get burn pictures unless they're pronounced. And this one was pretty light. So that's what it looked like before we got started with it. Now an important part here the CRT replacement right. So first thing I took a picture of these points you have to remove all this stuff get it out and you'll notice here I had to cut away. No one's going to like to hear this but I had to cut away that I had to cut away that that tube from the flyback. You see all that epoxy and the way I did it was quite simple. Took this ESD look at this took this ESD set of tweezers just simple tweezers. I literally shoved it right into that epoxy and I slowly pushed it forward till I got to the point where there was no more epoxy and pushed up and then you peel up and eventually it just peels all away and you just peel the rubber back and as long as you're not stabbing into the actual cap itself over here as long as you're not stabbing that rubber and you're just penetrating this epoxy or not epoxy it's like silicone. As long as you're just penetrating that you penetrate that end under there you slide it around a little bit and you just peel that off and eventually comes off and you can break that away. So they're not usually epoxied on thankfully this was just something that again was done it is it is on like the eight inch ones surprisingly. Some models really have it epoxied a lot so anyway that was something that I know I've never shown and I'm not really done before. So the old tube again pulled out here's the new tubes spriced up spruced up cleaned up there's the inside. Now this is a great opportunity to get in here and clean all this out which was done all cleaned up ready to reinstall. There's the boards back there hanging out by the Sony 20 inch flat screen right there you see it and there's that stupid tube tester that's been blown out since about six weeks oh goodness. Anyway there's the new tube installed you can tell that it had the epoxy on it too at some point because let's face it there's no way to find really you luck you would never find you might find a new old stock of this tube but I this wasn't a new old stock it was just a replacement tube reinstalled did clean off that shielding a bit to get some of that rust off but there it is there it is shining shining like a bright diamond yes everybody a bright diamond. So that's what we were looking at now before I put everything back together I had to get in here and service these circuit boards and this is a picture of all those primary boards that got serviced okay specifically things I'm going to point out in here are things that you should watch for on this board okay we're going to talk a little bit of our way through servicing this board but that's it no organ so they said they kept their for 88 hours they're 20m2 congratulations well thank you I appreciate it appreciate you watching I appreciate everybody watching hey if you're enjoying today's stream having fun do me a favor just hit the like button for me today that way we can get some notice it's a Monday everybody's supposed to be back at work normally where I'm at so I do not imagine you know our our numbers are going to be huge on this stream but I just want everybody kind of know that they're back so we still got a little bit more work to go through here too before we do anything so there's all the boards all right this up in the right hand corner above my head at the top this is a daughter board that connects right yes right here on the side of this main board which you'll notice has the flyback and that goofy transistor sorry I don't know why I call it transistor resistor yes PO absolutely my friend and here we go is the power supply this was all all reworked so let's start with a quick look at the original neck board here definitely dirty definitely seeing its fair share of work here I don't know if we can zoom in too much but you'll notice some of these this is always a big big big big big big big big point of emphasis this could be on any electronics okay folks you don't it doesn't have to be a crt this is this is the issue we'll be running through in these old things everybody but you'll train your eyeballs to do things you'll train your eyeballs to look places over time this all comes from experience and what we're looking at here is the backside of this neck board and the crt socket something that hasn't seen any servicing since production in 1989 but if we look very closely at these pins just look at how compromised the solder is on here I wish I could get closer but it looks like honestly that's as close as I can get with this browser look at it but for example look at the red here's the so if we look k right so this is our g1 voltage see how that's tied together on the same loop that's high voltage folks that will bust your ass if you touch it okay you got h1 over here which is more along convergence focused stuff g2 voltage high voltage g1 g2 okay but over here these top three pins they are your colors start with a k though instead of a c color blue color green color red and if you see it's maybe hard to see on the screen but I hope you can there's little dots around every one of these some of these are way worse like this blue this green this red all it would take is you buying this crt using this for a year and these these solder points will eventually just fail just fail and then you'll lose color so this all has to be you know and with a neck board I actually go and reflow solder on every component here every single one of them because there's other parts that can fail any of these hot parts like this g4 right here this could fail hey belmont thanks for coming yeah the count between eight and nine are just insane oh my goodness that's awesome hope everything went good I was getting these crazy short videos from somebody pouring con or making fun of people pouring concrete it's like home concrete jobs and it made me cringe how you talk about bad stuff I mean we're talking about bad possible circuit board rework I can't believe some of the ways people were like pouring their back patios and the junk they were trying to put in it the lack of like sub grade work they were wanting to do wow yeah let's hope koala koa let's hope this is why but that's just that that's definitely a reason now sometimes you look up here check it out like you can physically follow physically follow the colors right and see if these parts are shorted or if the solder is bad right here you got a resistor and you can test that resistor if that resistor is failed then your color could also go out so you got color green right it's being sent here to the tube but it's coming from this line so it's got to go through this resistor it's got to go through all these parts and it's ultimately coming from one of the major transistors on here you could even physically follow this I'm not sure which one uh this is probably blue over here green and red over here so like these main board parts like this q708 those can go bad those transistors right there and cause you to have a yeah actually if you go back and watch I had a good story about this shirt thanks man yeah but I bought this at a uh a Panama City smoke shop in like the year 2000 or 99 something like that while I was on spring break in high school so good shirt anyway there's a lot that can happen on this board a lot that can happen that you should just prepare yourself to services on a CRT okay thankfully it's an easy one to service here's the top side of this board uh if you'll notice here it's got the new caps installed I know that I could tell just from the picture there's not look at that there's only one capacitor on this particular board so you generally this board for a sony pvm will have anywhere from one to add most like seven capacitors on it but most of them have one to four so it's not a big recap job obviously but the important thing is to go in and reflow the solder so uh again I'm sorry for the resolution on these photos it's not hugely good but you could definitely see see how like the the difference here on color red green and blue so a nice big solder on there nice big fresh solder on there and this requires sometimes removing that old solder but look at the board all over right everything has fresh solder every point of contact has been soldered and cleaned and inspected and really doing this doing this is it just breathes new life into this electronics where it's probably gonna you know this board will last as long as possible 20 years if it properly maintained this is from a 1344 q so if we look in here I will give you a couple of tips do not come in here and keep your solder point on any of these points too long okay because you can run through this and there's plastic involved and if you heat that up too much you could actually melt the plastic on the ring and compromise that on the other side of the board let's see if I have a picture of that side oh just before we get out of here yes see that's the socket you can actually melt the plastic and compromise that and I've also seen where you melt the horizontal static convergence plastics and then your focus doesn't work as well or I'm sorry that's convergence not focus so you'll you'll have beams not aligning properly hey Dan B hey ace thank you everybody for showing up senile deluxe and uh in a second here after we get done with this restoration I'll go through and answer some questions on it but we're still working our way through the main boards now so that's the seaboard there's a back of it again I think I have a couple more photos just so you could see how that solder reflow looks just wonderful hmm happy happy little components ready to energize your tube so now the look at the top side of that board fresh capacitor just one again now this board again is that a daughter board and I'm not I don't like that anyway so not getting recapped okay not a recap because the caps weren't bad surprisingly so what I am more concerned with though are the connection points on all these major components right so this connection point right here this connection point right here those are vital areas where information and voltages and all kinds of stuff is sent so this board can communicate and function with the main board and it needs to be maintained in service so again on something this old the important thing is solder quality and I don't I went through and inspected the solder because I did not you'll tell you could tell a difference for example I did not have to go through and reflow solder on all the components on this board the connectors yes see see how the connectors are glowing and have have more fresh solder on them this stupid fly has a fly sneak in the basement there's not even a door to this basement thanks Belmont look at that so you can tell that you can also see up here where this this has fresh solder so it's spot resoldering this board just gets a cleaning and inspection not generally a problems with this board this is your input board qb board nice clean dude though you definitely clean it thank you a hello no noam welcome and so that's that's the end of the qb board I hate to run over it so quick but there's not a lot unless you're unless you're doing something you know this part is specifically bad here thankfully you can test most of these because this is kind of a pain in the neck to take apart it's in layers and if there is a component bad in here it's a nightmare now onto the power supply which you have big huge filter caps in and a bunch of small sporadic caps throughout let's see where were we I just clicked on the out button right so if you notice again these caps are cleaned pulled and tested the large caps and if they pass the test and inspection I'm not replacing them generally not always but generally speaking not so much but you can see right here look at this 6613 this was just an example of a capacitor that's obviously gone bad on the board left some residue there okay another capacitor removed here another view of that board and this looks like a view of the board without capacitors installed before I've really worked on it much yes see I could see my my empty holes I've removed the components and board's still really dirty and all right so I contradict myself this particular big one I did replace because I had a superior one in stock so I actually did replace that one there you go I might or there's another but there's so there's another example see look at the residue here now there's a possibility this is flux residue same thing over here there's the new caps installed including the big snap in now there's another board when it's this age you can tell from the bottom here it's got a complete solder reflow solder reflow and cleaning look how much cleaner that is it looks like beautiful but again something that's very important like a power supply needs to have good good continuity good clean solder and there it is back in the spot baby ready to work so that was the power supply so this is about this is like the works what we call the works here unless you're doing unless you're doing just a full recap of every part what you saw in my last one of my last streams is about the fw 900 it's got like a full recap this is a pretty standard works you know you get a new tube you're getting everything properly checked out and preventively maintained and parts exchanged but tell this board's very dirty to start with this is this is your adjustment area on the monitor this is what you get that's right fully internal no service menu on this model and that's pretty much all there's to this this these other pods control things you don't want to change about your blanking so what do we have we have horizontal size we have pin amp right oh this is vertical size I always forget it so the blue one on the top right here I'm circling that's horizontal this is vertical that's size adjustment so it makes it bigger and smaller then you have pin amp and screenbow and vertical linearity and then vertical center and this is one right here this blue one you don't generally need to adjust this at all it's horizontal blanking okay and that has to do with more with your sink and your information outside of your picture so do not adjust this particular one unless you know what you're doing and then on the but on the bottom row you do have four potentiometers you'll need video phase is actually horizontal center that's all that is it's fancy your name I don't know why it's called video phase but if I was in the business a long time I'd probably know this right here changes a vertical angle this next one and this is pin phase and pin amp was up here right so that's like your squishing expanding corners I'm sorry give them a lot here sorry to hear that you know hopefully so get better soon all right just look at the I mean after what do you expect I guess after such a long time from 89 but there's a lot of nasty stuff just built up in this monitor over time and these heat sinks all these capacitors so you're getting a standard cap kit of every deflection capacitor first off but then we'll spot check these other ones to make sure they're good and I also found this part to be bad on the chassis right there which is just a little indicator bulb and I don't know that the monitor would work without it or not because I didn't attempt to try to use it so I got a spare one off a parts board and installed it but that's was this was all the bad caps and maintenance caps gone removed and then here it is with all those parts out getting ready to be cleaned up and have new caps installed but the deflection cap section is standard to get them all changed I wouldn't really even if they test good I'm getting rid of them so that's just standard that's every one of these caps in this area all those that you saw before gone and that way and get in there and clean around those parts also again more parts gone lots of caps gone on this board and then there's some that are like audio caps like these are audio caps all these they're not you know and in blue only mode it's like getting no heat no attention barely any usage they work fine so it's not that's why those aren't those aren't changed out just for the heck of it back of the board after cleaning getting ready to install the new capacitors and this would be after the new capacitors are installed because again lots of solder being reflowed on this board lots of cleaning there it is see a red on that board new caps installed new caps installed cleaned up and ready to go and that's it for the like board servicing the only thing I will mention further is if you go back and you're looking you definitely a thousand percent reflow solder on these points these these potentiometers you could very easily get a crack in that solder also okay thank you Belmont rust oh man rust you got to either use a chemical compound or you got to use a brush and scrape it off and then you can technically prime it hopefully but yeah that's what they look like afterwards and this is like I love give it this is what you get when you get you know serviced in my shop I send you all these photos with your monitor forever so it's actually cool I think I think that's one thing I'm doing that most people don't do don't want to do most people don't even want to work on these things anymore most electronic shop so all right so that's enough of that we've got some quick lookage quick lookage at this uh monitor now and what it looks like after being serviced now this was something I found to be so fascinating so fascinating I found this part out by accident we talked in depth a minute ago right there about the flyback assembly with this resistor well there's some ground points on here that are very vital there's a ground screw right here and that ground screw ties to the ground over here on the side of your shell and your shielding and this right here this is unbelievable to me if you don't have this ground screw connected or it's loose the monitor will turn itself off it will literally disengage the power to your tube and it does like a safety shutdown mode all because of this ground point I tested it 100 times if you leave it screwed in it turns on perfectly every time if you unscrew it leave it out it will never power on unbelievable so just an insane thing that I discovered by accident so I tried to test it without there and I couldn't figure out what was going on and I just said well let's just try to put the ground on see if it'll work I'd never seen that but it did happen with this one the results were credible this is just a great monitor for the age I don't understand it this one works so awesome once it gets tuned it's really one of the best performing at most underrated models and it's the thing that's a pain about it is it's everything's done manually but the results on these are just amazing some versions of Mortal Kombat screenshots here but look at the sharpness and field depth on this 13 inch monitor I mean goodness gracious you can you can see everything just about sharpness is incredible there you go there's a look at the new 240 piece setup after adjustments got it set to a perfect aspect ratio try to really work on those corners as we all know convergence isn't something you usually get 150 right you get it about 90 percent sometimes 95 percent in these corners there we go there's some edge convergence some bottom convergence I try to give these kind of shots so that the customer can understand what they're going to see hopefully when they get it back I'd like to show this shot at the center and show how good the focus looks the colors now this was something I wanted to show specifically to this client because he was again worried about screen burn and usually the best these pictures were so hard to take without getting that flash line across the center of the screen making it look like two different shades of a color because these are just a single color screen but I wanted to show this so you could see there was no purity issues on a tube reinstall so that means no discoloration and also you could really get a good idea that there is no screen burn on these two this tube with this side of both of picture there's red there is green solo green and solo blue and that's the the the angles are different all because it's so hard to take that picture and then finally white white's the best to put on to see any kind of issues like uh what was I trying to say anything that is screen variable be pronounced on a white screen like that all white that's a feature of the 240p test suite and the best game pretty much to photograph is super Metroid I know I know there's like probably other good ones but this is just one of the best it's got back our backgrounds that are dark colored so photographs well and the scan lines pop good colors also there's a lot of different things in the intro scenes like it cycles through a lot of different things that you can take good pictures of so I've memorized the points when the screen freezes I try to take photos of these points so you get a good clarity and depth on here these are unedited pictures from like my galaxy 10 phone okay so it's not as if this is a good photograph representation it's just is what it is that way you could see like what you're going to expect in game oh so beautiful and I'm not sure what's going on here with our photographs let's go back see we were we were here looks like we were about to look at this one let's look at that I mean Samus like I'm sometimes I sit back I'm like damn how how can we get a piece of hardware that looks this darn good like how after 25 years we still have tech that looks this good and you get a new I got new monitors around here that crap out after 18 months and never look this good never it just blows me away how good of a piece of hardware these CRTs really really were so again just some pictures of the finished chassis um now I talked a little bit about this before you notice my blue RTV silicone to hold conversion strips I added into place both sides added one there's another look down from above all neatly put back together and ready to go stood underrated monitor really I love buying these I love buying these and working on them and uh uh so yeah xxx xxx you're right the brightness and motion clarity and the blacks are blacks are getting there with obviously OLED technology but man the blacks can be so good yeah hypersand they're getting expensive now this was done that's it let's go back and look at the service notes on it we'll review those and then we'll see if anybody has any questions about it this is a deep folder it's got the full the full shebang this was something that was worked on uh throughout the week it was opened all week worked on all right Belmont good luck thank you guy wants 2k golly which one are you talking about hypersand what model I mean if it's not like something like a hired working guaranteed working bvm or pvm 20l 5 and I guess we should talk about what currency you're talking about anyway bill feel free to leave that I'm about to get some questions here in a second for this one service notes uh pre-testing diagnostics a lot of these things are going to be the same for each monitor disassembly cleaning circuit boards maintained completed boards are recapped a little bit more information on that solder was reflowed circuit boards are cleaned and inspected circuit boards pass quality control installed the replacement crt adjusted calibrated geometry focused landing converged screen brightness colors and more cleaned and bezel cleaned the pvm was tested I included a picture of the starting geometry after that I disassembled the whole monitor and cleaned everything then I removed your crt and installed the replacement crt then I serviced all your boards I installed the capacitor sorry this capacitor kit for this pvm this covers the power supply neck board and deflection board I completely for reflowed solder on the power supply then reflowed on all the other boards on the vital components I also found a part that was bad on the a board I replaced that which I showed you guys that little bald once all the circuit boards were serviced I cleaned them installed them and tested each function was tested on the pvm it's all working as intended and after the warm up period I adjusted the crt for calibrations listed above top shape should last for a long time and that's it for the servicing on our third crt and we'll move on your second through our last one before I do that what do you guys think let's see oh any see gosh dm I'm not sure that model xm's and xp's are the ones I'm always referring to or hearing of okay so if you have any questions about that last restoration otherwise we're gonna group it right here the 1334 q this was all again this is all between last I don't know these were all finished last week all right so some difference qualities between any sees and pvm's yeah I mean actually like any sees if it's a good one and it works better than pvm's but they're hard to find they're huge usually they have a ton of capacitors in them and they're a pain in the neck to work on compared to these just because the sheer number of capacitors but like some of the models are really really great really great uh they're great made they have fans in them to keep to keep them the temperature down extends the life of components they do a lot some of them do 480p and all analog stuff really nice have a ton of inputs and outputs it's a beautiful monitor usually the really good ones man there's also some really cool other ones I found a cool rca one that my friend was sending me rca made this amazing presentation monitor um but again it's just fine in them all right let's get into these I'm sorry I'm catching up on the chat here do you accept drop off sir yeah if you're a patreon member that's who gets to get I mean honestly I only can uh I only have time really most of the time to work on people's that show up on patreon there's a lot of people there so I work on their stuff and then I work on uh commercial businesses stuff there are commercial businesses that I do business with the nc's are picking about sync that's true there's also some pvm's that are a little bit I spent two I know the feeling good a lot spending too much money on stuff I always try to buy my stuff at junk prices and fix it sometimes it most time it works not always though uh whenever you service a 40 series pvm do you disconnect the one wire that match it that mutes audio on rgb uh yes if it there is one wire you can look it up it's on andy king's website it's really simple I don't even disconnect you just cut it because all the wire does is it engages a mute mode it engages a mute mode for the rgb input so there's no audio input but if you disconnect the line then you can use the a the line a input for the speaker on there and actually get speaker access so actually that's something I consider a modification and if anybody wants to go back and for some reason re-engage the mute mode all you have to do is uh strip that wire reconnect it put a sleeve on it or a heat shrink wrap and it would be fine but I always do that yeah because who doesn't want to have at least to be able to use the speaker um Muhammad any rgb shifter did you recommend I don't know what you mean by an rgb shifter and I'm sorry um what brand of capacitors are you using I use all types that you can get from mauser and digikey um I think we've talked about this a few times on streams I don't particularly get hot for a certain brand like some people do they get all crazy about nishikon and rubicon only of course I love those but the other red brand is worth electronics and I never found any bad reviews on worth I've been using them for four or five years and I've not had any issues I've checked out their data sheets I've checked out their company because I was concerned too and the problem is is when we got into the parts shortage which we're still semi dealing with on these kind of components you'll come into components like these that are out of life that never got restocked after twenty twenty one twenty nineteen twenty twenty one is so many of them got stripped and not of them been made um there's plenty of great brands though I mean plenty of great bands it can it can depend on the size of the capacitor some brands aren't good at big capacitors but if you're getting into like a general capacitor think about it like a 50 volt 10 microfarad capacitor that's 105 degree temperature rated that is a uh what are we talking about here sorry that is like a 2000 to 5000 hour lifespan and it has a low esr uh low ripple current and you're looking at them on all these data sheets they test out just as good as an nishikon there's no reason to not use them on something that's so you know so basic it's like again you're talking about like duracell batteries at this point are they really that much better than energizer and rayovac or something like that or other good brands but we're not going down into like that knockoff brand territory right we're still taking them in with brands that are decent a lot of brands like panasonic this is a great question though and I don't want people to be afraid of using other brands and capacitors uh because if uh let's here let's do this these are um this is just an old pull cabinet that I have here in the shop and this thing is great for storing capacitors and like I said sometimes you'll open up a drawer and you'll have all kinds of different capacitors in there different brands those are all the same values and relatively same ratings but they're different brands and they're similar capacitors uh but this is what I built up it's just stocks of these parts based on what was available so I actually could have capacitors in the shop when it repairs needed or restoration brought in and then after the job I can go and replace those caps with the cap kit and not waste the time of having to wait for the parts to arrive I can't always do that but um as long as it fits well okay Jackie yeah I know there's that's that's a fine it was just kind of a quick analogy hey Stephen oh okay so Muhammad was talking about Jamma super guns I don't use one of those and I would just be very careful about the equipment that you're plugging in from an arcade directly into your pvm just to be careful because that can it has no short circuit uh the sink line on occasion not always but it has happened extras yes those are the ones to go with that's a good advice Shane thank you extra on 202 rxi okay but anyway that's that's a good and I'm sure that there's somebody could debate me all day saying oh you should only use this brand of capacitor but you know we all know there's better stuff like or certain preferred things but you can also get burned by that right like being over loyal to one brand and then down the road something happens and the brand's quality just nosedives and it messes with your head because then it's hard for you to get off that brand so hey thanks Zach thanks for coming so that's it let's get on to our our final uh we'll move on here to the final of our thing today our final pvm run through on what we've had and then maybe we'll do something else I'll take I'll probably take a little break after this one and then we'll come back and I'll bring in some some toys and uh just keep going I'm having a good time I usually like to get about 40 to 50 people in the streams I don't know how many are here now but that this feels to me like like a good session that if you want to come in and like sit down and try to learn things have an open discussion feedback you know I try to I try to explain the work kind of show it off in a way and it would be nice if I could just do all this work in front of here but this is again we're summarizing darn near like 50 hours of of labor that is very hard to film and uh so I like sometimes breaking it up with these kind of reviews and I think a lot of people also do it like that too yeah so some people are talking about p.o 17 talking about which he has some great reviews on crt you should check out his channel too there's awesome different brands of crt's it doesn't have to be sony I think the sony's just sits a good standard on a trinitron and there's a lot of them they're just insane uh good but at the same time there's a lot of other great crt's unbelievable stuff it doesn't have to be a sony there's a lot of simple brands I mean and then there was some rca for example made crt's that are like low end really low end just rf things all the way up to some of the highest ends so you got full range on some of these companies mitsubishi good one yes thanks james yeah hopefully these are helpful so we're gonna move on now we can move on to our file and then I'll give you guys a little bit of a moment here this was the last one we got monitor pictures and restoration pictures so let's start with the monitor pictures should be this is what it looks like well let's let's go to that afterwards all right all right this one again had some things it had uh it had to have I had to take tube out of it tube had to be removed so this was just set up pretesting but I had to take a tube out and the only thing I tell you is make sure you're ready to take a tube out when you do and you've prepared everything photographed everything so you know where everything goes when it's done but these are just pictures of the disassembly points like there's another one of those ground points hey keith good man good to see you looks like the streaming is back maybe we can get together I've got hey I now this is all dependent on the ebay thing of them being able to ship it but keith I bought a 1340 pvm uh so I got another 40 series I actually got three 40 series here that need to be restored I got a 42 or is it a 44 no I got a 42 q a 43 md and a 40 so we got to have something we can get together on and it just need this system on the pc to stay strong on our streaming setup I think we got to figure out what the wrong problem was so so just looking here if you're looking at like your removal points there's four screws to remove you got to remove this to get there's one down there see it's peeking out there and there's two at the top but you also got to remove your ground points here right you got to move that screw there's another green cable right here that has to be removed same thing at the top side uh there's the ground screw right here these be removed and then there's your other bolt down there at the bottom of the picture and then you carefully remove your tube and tube was cleaned checked out and reinstalled here we go so there we go on that that's just the tube section here's your lovely deflection board this is again a cap kit not a lot of photos here I've done this cap kit like three or four times on the channel on live streams but it's all these capacitors in this block deflection block here there's some in this block too there's place those there's all the bad old caps and you could tell even when you look at Sony's caps these are all different brands here you'll get everything from Rubicon's like this is a Rubicon these gray ones are Nishikans you'll get Elnas and you'll get Jammy cons how about Jammy cons I don't even use Jammy cons so even even the manufacturers of this stuff we're not married to a single parts manufacturer for everything just to look at these pads I will tell you that this is a tricky board to work on it really does require a lot of experience it's one that can be easily messed up because there's a lot of tracing on this board that does double side stuff for example like you have a via here that'll go up somewhere I do a component and then on the other side it might do something different go to a different component it's easy to burn a trace or pull a component when you don't have all the solder molten too early too early and you'll pull a via straight out of the hole and you'll rip this trace and it's like oh screw me and then there's these tight lines where you'll have some that need to be replaced as part of the cap kits some that aren't and there you go new caps installed different brands for example there's a Nishikon on top uh Nishikon worth I can't remember what these are but these are maybe Nishikons too it's good stuff Rubicon just depends on the size of the cap Panasonic that's a Panasonic one right there right there that black and white one there's a board after again you get some solder reworking cleaning that's it that's all it's all the boards right no it's just the deflection board we got the neck board neck board with a little bit more parts in it we got four capacitors here to install and people might ask you know it's different depending on the monitor but she can tell we have a cable right here on this left side of your screen it goes into the flyback transformer like there's a little spot on there probably we'll show you in the next picture actually it's like a breakout from the flyback that has a focus controller on it this plugs into that you could just slip this out and off instead of messing with all this hardware and trying to remove something but all that stuff that's how you get that board out safely like that on this monitor and there's a photo of the underside after we've replaced the capacitors now the good thing is is if you ever have an issue with your like reworking and you make pictures like this you can easily come in here like if i was for example concerned about a board saying oh could i have accidentally put a capacitor in the wrong way well i'm coming here and verify what orientation they're all set in and if that's the correct orientation always talking caps there we go so there you go it's similar to the other one you can tell we had to reflow solder on this all this everything standard procedure on the neck board even a newer one like this you know uh the only way to find replacement tubes is pretty much get a busted one but it's not a hard tube to replace usually if you find a busted one 13 inches you can find it based on broken monitors you buy a parts monitor off ebay or something uh but you're always taking a risk without testing it if knowing it has the uh tube burner not so there you go just another look at that solder reflow rework blah blah blah lovely lovely solder blobs lovely stuff there cleaned up don't see any residue looks like looks like i did better than the factory on this one all right that's the neck board servicing and last one the power supply this is a really high end nice board really well designed by sony that these caps tend to last a long time in this one and it does a stable job now what doesn't last long or what fails generally are these transistors right in here these transistors will short there's like seven to ten transistors on this so it's really that's that's more problematic than the caps but preventative maintenance tells us to go in here and replace certain capacitors here and that is what was done solder was reflowed let's look back here yeah see there's my tray and if you look here we have a smorgasbord of different capacitors right there's rubicon nisha con united kemi con all kinds of good stuff solder reflowing on this board hey bellmont welcome back more solder reflow pictures and i think it's just going to be pictures again of qc past caps or um newly installed capacitors so that's it that's all our boards that's our senior t that's was installed that was the whole part of the labor oh i i thought now definitely no different pictures super metroid's back gosh five marco hey a guy was looking for a repair for a sony trinitron hd 53215 goodness gracious what size is that thing anyway metroid pictures baby let's do it but let's show it off here's a look at the back of the monitor cleaned up cleaning all this like super clean pictures of the anode cap look how many convergent strips are on this tube my there's the yoke there's a little ga uh power supply daughter board that sometimes you need to take a look at it's on the side as a cannibal connection a couple of uh fuses on it uh it's up here you can follow that down and it goes under and it connects over here to your input board through the cabling in the middle this is the rest of the cabling on the solid lovely there you go that's what the cabling should like it look like after so vencent there are capacitor kits already published for some that are just preventative and they're already documented so you already have a certain level and then i go through and i use tools and visual things like checking visually to see what other services are needed and i might recommend something to a client beyond what we had originally talked about a lot of times it's like hey here's the cab kit for me to do that on this certain monitor would be this much money i get into it i'm like look there's probably more caps if it's substantial if it's just like three or four caps i find that are bad i probably just replace them and not charge anything extra but if it's like substantially more work like another board i wasn't anticipating needing work um are really bad stuff then we talk about more availability but it's really just using meters tools sometimes yeah to get a good test on a component you have to pull it from the board i have testers that are supposed to work on components outside of or while they're still in circuit but eve i don't even trust those all the time hey master safer thanks for coming today steven schneider good to see you thanks for the question vencent all right why back and do you remember here's that junction so this flyback has a connection point here where if you have to remove all this stuff you can disconnect it directly from the flyback but it also is a connection point at that at that adjustment knob right here where it adjusts your focus on this monitor stuff or stuff or hey come on to a what i'd love to do is have like a traveling thing where i go to conventions and work on crt's i'll try to get something like that organized eventually and here's the inside this is in like adjustment mode that's why the power supply is expanded out like that you can move that around a little bit this is how the wiring should look after you work on it and reinstall everything and there it is right in our lovely shop adjusted not not as perfect as the 14 inch the 14 inches you can always get better than a 20 inch usually just the overall screen size i just couldn't get like the corners perfect you know like you'll notice these corners are this this line is straight across the top to the bottom you always end up with like one drooping corner no matter what you do it just droops a little bit yeah master safer it actually is oh it fw 900 that should be fixed in the software you could try adjusting that in the software if you have an availability to use windows um if you don't have a windows availability you may have to go in and start servicing it to try to get to work better shouldn't have an issue like that unless the tube is really really old yeah well give a lot i don't know sometimes it can sometimes it can't if you had like really low quality cables that were susceptible to interference then yes thankfully these were all built together and anticipated for that so it's not an issue all right so here's just a close-up of the zones with my camera good convergence in this corner but then good convergence you might get see this is our droopy corner convergence looks good but the droopiness and then we have to i had like sometimes you get a convergence issue at the bottom you saw how many convergence strips i put on that thing it couldn't get any better and convergence good convergence good this one's really sharp really good looking look at that really really get in there and see i mean the beam alignment isn't perfect right look at the blue it's all green look at the blue and like the green but this is like microscopic level there you go nice bright screen of all the colors gradius have some different gradius pictures yay not many though looks cool though i love like how you can see it's just like lines i can feel the slowdown starting to happen on the cartridge right oh back to metroid yeah i already did adjust all that p o 17 that was literally and i did actually i did actually have to readjust the yoke i always do that too that's there's but there's a point with crts that um like a point of diminishing returns it's like you can't make it's it's literally in the manuals for these that you can't get them beyond like 97 percent just your standard photos a lot of these you'll a little bit different than the last ones that's the same ones the last time so that's it looks good another full treatment on that thing service notes here uh pretty much the same thing fully pre-testing diagnosis inspection full assembly full cleaning circuit boards maintained boards work recapped solder reflowed cleaned boards past quality control inspected and installed a replacement crt actually this one had a different okay adjusted calibration monitor clean bezel cleaned so there's not really much different notes between this i don't know what the resistance is on that yoke off the top of my head jackie plus a bigger bigger the pvm bigger crt gets the edge the the last whatever two five two to five percent of the edge is always a shit point like you're starting to get into not just the yoke but you got to worry about the angle of the tube and the angle the length of the neck that really all factors into the mask on the front whatever slot whatever you're using it's it's a lot of stuff and the bigger just makes it more challenging all right so circle back around this is a 1350 that is all four of the crts that were repaired from last week that's a full chance for us to work through those go through those again friends remember rwx rwx natural world expo hope to see some of you there in august i really do gonna have a good time and uh what i'm gonna do now is i'll sit here for a second um catch up on the chat everything looks good and uh i'm gonna take a quick break and i might find something else we can work on uh but i do need a second to just uh go to the restroom get some fresh water you know the usual stuff absolutely shame great point there's a lot of times where the external factors can affect your purity and on a larger monitor it can be worse a less shielded monitor it can be way worse um you really need it you know that's a good thing about pvms they're heavily shielded and thank you belmont um so you can have those even just the earth's magnetism you can have a crt just rotate it and it'll have issues with uh purity where you'll have a bottom color will bottom corner will turn green and then you start turning it and it goes away and if you keep turning it all of a sudden the top corner turns green the exact opposite corner it keeps turning it gets clear again it's like it's like showing you where it's getting positioned against the world so here's what i'm gonna do let's see still got the music rolling thank you check my headphones i'm gonna go to the restroom i'm gonna put up a um let's see maybe i can add a source here and let's add a let me make it let me write an image yes east west first north south makes a big difference good point keith absolutely the north south magnetism i think it's probably worse than east west but i'm not sure i'm not there's certain things i only know by like experience not like real world education beyond beyond just like it again the school of hard knocks figuring things out and it's almost like you come up with your own terminology sometimes for things it doesn't make sense a hundred l flower f l e f lover let me get these names right last time i was calling somebody something really bad like pillow humber pillow whacker and it was pillow hacker i'm the worst with names sometimes good uh crt's and hey baby that's what we should do how about that let's let's come back we'll do some crt shopping see if we could find anything cool that'll be fun let's do some live crt shopping after we get back for my little break here but before that i'm going to put together a note that says i'll be back in like 15 minutes so let's get a paint how about we do this for microsoft paint 3d no i'll be there just just bear with me here for a second let me give myself like 20 minutes for this break i'm sorry if some of you guys are just hanging out you can hang out in the chat you can leave it run in and come back i'll have the jazz playlist going and then i will um i'll probably change it over to if you guys have a request for a game by the time i get this little note done um let me know and i could put it on there off it's on a super nintendo pretty standard game um i'm just gonna put willy back soon you can put your requests in the chat and i will two three see if we can get it laid up yeah the prices are getting pretty ridiculous on some stuff i mean insanity so let me bring in a image and say okay and we will browse the good thing about starting with a fresh pc is there's so little files on it oh but now i've got like shared files on here so there we go there's my little note look at that how about that who says we don't have high quality graphics oh my gosh okay see that all right i'm going to go with f0 someone said f0 first second earthworm gem space mega force okay well here's the thing i got two for earthworm gem and uh i'll just do that for now and we'll try something else out later but uh it gets a fun per second i will be back soon i'm gonna actually pull myself out of the picture and i will leave i'll expand your view a little bit on this one and we'll expand that look at that graphic baby high tech aren't we all right folks give me a minute and i will be back right everybody thank you thank you thank you around adjust things back to the way they were try to do some fun stuff here for a second after give it to that image turn myself back move our camera resize it earthworm gem looked pretty good on there actually to be honest now the problem is this camera right now is super cheap it's not very good it won't go above 30 fps there's no zoom features on it and i had a really nice camera but that's what kept causing the crash again i told people that i don't know how but anyway all right so as we sit here we're going to get some stuff moved around on my other desktop and i'm going to switch gears a little bit i was intrigued by the idea of doing some shopping and let's do that this is great because this is a new computer so none of my not too many of my profiles are signed in on things like ebay so i'd rather just search it on the screen without being signed into anything so i'm just going to get a couple of things things let ready and we'll see if we can find under the fore sale what we want all right okay look there of course i don't think we'll be able to get into facebook without being logged in and so we might just have to skip that unless we just look at the marketplace oh we can just search marketplace okay let me just change my location on here from there to all right i'm not going to go to i'm going to go to the biggest city i guess like near me and that would be probably washington dc and that's like two hours away from me and i'm going to go so i'm going to go like a hundred it's like 60 mile radius that doesn't even get to me yet my actual location doesn't even cover it if i do that so let's go to washington dc well let me get a little bit closer let's do charlotte'sville that's closer to me that that'll cover me yes let's do an 86 80 miles 80 mile radius we're gonna apply that and we'll we'll get on here and start doing some shopping everybody so um let's switch off our earthworm gym view thank you for thank you for that uh that lovely whatever idea um the game there let me pull this up expand the view a little bit all right so here we go don't really care about any other stuff so i'm just trying to resize things that's actually not here we go we're gonna start with everybody's favorite place ebay and we'll do this let's see i'll show you here let me just type in the top here hey everybody's favorite to start which is not true because we just talked about that well let's look up sony pvms and the here's what i like to look at it i look at them so much i have to look at i have to look at them by time so i just type in sony pvm time newly listed says there's 234 search results some of these are new because i haven't seen any of these yet they've just been posted so look at this uh this is a complete rip off $335 shipped for the 8040s which if you don't know in 8040 is um it's nothing more than a well it's the s video composite video only monitor now this person actually knows what they're doing but man they're trying to make a bunch of money off this off these like that's pretty high price for that i'll admit three over $300 for the 8040 let's see this is from 98 these are also prone to color failure and you really have to know how to properly service that so not assume these have been serviced but we've done that servicing live here on the channel oh excuse me gosh sorry i got some fizzy water here and it made me a little a little gassy yeah this is a terrible i'm a i'm assuming that this will sit like this for a while this particular listing well let's get away from it there's another one same thing you make money you sell pvm and look at this this is an even worse older monitor the 8020 doesn't even do s video uh nope say you can you can stick the tuner board in there dang see the thing that sucks is this is i've got some 8020s but they don't have that tuner input do they let me go grab my 8020 we're gonna take a look at it all right so let's take a second here look this is a now i thought i thought i was wrong i'm sorry this this is an 8020 um but the ones i have are the better monitor i guess because this is less features and this is what i have i have like four of these um these are 80 20 20 80 wait see this is this is 80 20 or is 80 220 80 20 okay mine's actually 82 21 so a little bit different uh the one i have sorry i was looking at the picture here over on this page and it looks like this one is an 82 80 20 and i'm in like and i have the 82 21 but you can see from the front of this thing the confusion i had right it looks almost the same this is like a darker tube super fine pitch it's got a better tube in it and the thing that looking at this got me wondering is is about this input back here right here sorry right there and i think it's where i can actually input this tuner box which i bought for brand new but i've never really been able to use so let's see if that's a possibility here because i just thought i bought this unit and i didn't have anything to plug in it and i was going to have to make a custom cable but that this thing's new old stock check it out so this is that doesn't sound good this is supposedly never used right i don't remember how much i paid for it gosh i bought it for like 20 bucks off a junk lot on ebay or something but it was it was all in its original box and it's a channel tuner so it gives you like rf tunability and an rf input on this um box but the problem is is look at the only other connection points you got your rf cable but right here you just have this thing that says uh b plus e video and audio and damn that's not even the right hookups son of a gun that says like tally e e so that's just to run the tally light on the back of the monitor hot dog well let's see that got my hopes up and it looks like i need this stupid looks like i wouldn't need this 80 20 to use my tuner i thought we were going to get to see this thing use something's loose in there something's very loose because i have the cable and everything anyway well i even got my own hopes up there for no reason uh so silly me i'll leave that and put that back later i'm going to get rid of this pbm make sure none of my other ones are 82 20s or have that input well now unfortunately i do not have that i do not have that monitor i have a bunch of the other ones so all right well it's still too much for that one this is like mine this is the the this is the 21 it says like it's a 9 to 21 me so it actually has another feature on it same same input structure and everything though that's how the back of mine looks except for it doesn't say me it has a different power supply i don't know why anybody would block out the back information once it has doxing like i guess it has some contact information now look at this well this really here's one now this is an auction and somebody's got their camera sideways and now it's like there's something up that picture tube probably just the pictures though and they've in massachusetts they got a sideways listing uh used so not not a lot of information right just working listing i'm sure this one will probably sell because it's starting off at a decent price and they're offering shipping okay but uh i don't know how much it'll sell for we're gonna look at some sold listings here in a second to see what they've actually been going for and i'll see if i can find some of the purchases i've made show them to you so here we go just going i mean look at this blah how ridiculous is this 900 plus 85 to ship of course it is from japan you're right that's a japanese listing but good grief 100 volts it's like getting punched in the nuts man just even looking at this listing at least it's got a picture working god do you imagine look at that board too all that scares the hell out of me look at that curvature look at this thing it's like you're telling me that none that's not putting stress on that board unserviced i don't even have the insanity i mean i wouldn't imagine selling i don't know how much i could sell my this is more than i'd sell my serviced one for and that one's serviced perfectly all right oh that's fun right uh we're just getting our we're just getting our butts kicked here on these works great oh 300 again for a damn 8040 sorry excuse my language 14 in 1 u in 5 u this is more than likely i have not got rgb so it's not it's a good monitor and it's modifiable if you know how to do that according to a guide uh let's see what year is this i didn't give us the year let's see if we can see it from here 2000 2000 the year 2000 and uh let's just see it turned on but goodness gracious let's see i think people just accidentally watch this one gosh for are you looking at 350 no i'm not doing that not i mean not me personally same thing with this one this is going to be an in series that doesn't have doesn't have rgb so that's what you'll notice now the the pvm listings nowadays are just filled with non rgb pvms non rgb pvms okay so this one does rgb but not working not working no pictures of it working condition condition uh this unit is defective it appears to power on but there's no image the front control buttons on the side do not light up selling as is for parts let's do some investigation here okay so first off let's look at the back here the um can i zoom in can i zoom in how do i zoom in zoom here we go now that's not getting bigger how did that work all right whatever man i've got to get in closer so do you see the there's controls right here and i can't tell i can't tell exactly uh first off look at this get some weird mounting where it was mounted on something odd and then they've zipped hide the cable interesting so uh if i'm looking back here when i when i when they talk about the buttons not working the first thing i would wonder is there's um there's two switches right here it says control and the standard setting is for them to be on but if this one right here that i'm pointing with my cursor at if it's turned off then the front buttons will not turn on uh so if it powers on and the front buttons don't turn on then it could just be a user error where they're using this wrong they don't know how to get it turned on but that's only if that switch is there and i can't see that darn picture for the life of me if it's uh i wonder if i save this image and i open it and like another program if i can zoom in closer let's see let's try this let's go this should be okay so look you see i didn't see i was wrong i was on the wrong side i couldn't see it so i'd first look here and i'd say okay is this switch on manual off that would mean that you can't manually change any of the buttons it's locked out that's so when this thing's like in use at museums or exhibits no one could go turn the buttons on and mess with anything on the front so that's like a safety lockout mode but it looks to me like that's in the on position both of those look like they're in the on position to me so that tells me that there probably is a problem with this monitor where it's not powering on and so it is at this point a just giant lottery ticket lottery ticket is all it is giant lottery ticket because you don't know what's going to happen with this thing four parts so so even for the parts ones it's got a bid where it's going to go for $260 $250 or more if someone else bids on it 1271 free local pickup gosh well i don't even want to look at that one all right this is one that i have personally been uh trying to bargain on because this is like close guys this is the closest one i found to one i would actually buy okay and i'm going to show you kind of some reasons why all right first off it's in good shape right let's look at the pictures this is a 1354 q now this monitor has a 600 line tube and it has all the features you want in this pvm line the only thing it doesn't have is a second rgb component input that is on the best the best from this series is the 1353 so this 1354 q is the second best the best would be the 53 either st or 53 md okay and that is everything uh is pretty similar here except you get an additional rgb and component input so you have two of those inputs on your monitor now back to this particular listing if i'm looking at this picture right here uh look at the menu down here it definitely looks like there's gonna be some adjustment issues i can't really tell that too much though because the mr bean dvd actually looks pretty good uh i like this picture because i could tell all the colors are in it right i can see some white so i can tell it's probably not got screen burn but we got mr bean he's in the correct pretty close to correct color i'm gonna guess based on this tally or this light being engaged right down here this is composite video and it's dvd player right dvd player uh now this is going to be something very interesting the extra good investigator in you and me we'll see something else lit up down here so i'm going to call your attention to my cursor again near the power button the power button is illuminated but you'll also notice that the remote button down here is also illuminated it is a yellowish orangish button and it is turned on okay so keep that in mind as we look through this listing turned off looks good bezel looks solid you get the two this one has the 600 tv line hr trench on tube tally light buttons yes c line a is is the one that was lit up that is just your straight um composite video and then it looks like over here check this out we saw that this was lit up when it was turned on right right there that says remote okay and if you know what that means that means that when it's in that remote mode it's locked out so when it's locked out it's going to give very limited menu adjustments available till you unlock it it's only going to give you a couple things in the menu and then when you adjust things like any of these knobs any of these knobs except for volume you can use the volume i'm pretty sure but every other knob will not do a single thing that's why when you look at this look at the phase if this was really phased all the way to purple then mr bean his color would have been crazy his color would have been purple and he would have had no green and it would have been looking bunk it would have been way messed up so he's actually you know you can tell that they've been screwed with the knobs and they're not getting it to do anything uh shells in very good condition you got it's always something to look for all the screws make sure they're the right screws those are the factory factory screws same thing back here four screws all factory uh oh this is a mid 90s october it says 95 96 something like that 95 right there next picture good model this is like i had a 1954 q was my very first pvm i loved it oh this is always a great shot a lot of people don't put this shot down here but this shows you if this base plate has any cracks in it that usually will happen around here you could see where it's starting to get pressure right there build up and that will probably crack one day especially if it's not shipped correctly and one more picture one more picture okay let's go look at the listings um powers on video works all ports works down works dials on front do not seem to work it shows some signs of use in age good cosmetic condition as is no returns we recycle so there they tell you the buttons that don't seem to work and that's because it's in remote mode and it's locked out and this is a chattanooga tennessee listing and i got kind of pissed because i kept trying to negotiate but i'm not paying this kind of money for this when uh it's just a little bit out of my price range now i will tell you if you want to buy this you can get this for about four hundred bucks if you offer four hundred bucks and you pay the six hundred dollar or sixty dollar shipping this person will sell it to you because that's about how low i got it to before they just started locked me out they blocked me from making offers which i didn't know you could do now uh you could like block i guess they send you a ebay it's going through some transitions stuff was acting weird and this is a electronics recycler reseller obviously 5200 feedback not the perfect free feedback you'd love to see but it's ebay guaranteed baby if it shows up broken you don't have to pay for it so if this guy i i tell you what my offer got up to what did i go up to three hundred and i think eighteen dollars was my top offer before i was no longer allowed to make offers so that would have put me with taxes right about four hundred which is where i'd want to be on this monitor if i bought it let's close that but that's been the best monitor listing so far closest to buying uh an n6 for five hundred dollars that does have rgb but golly i mean this is this is like almost a tv like sony just basically this is barely a professional monitor i understand if it's only when you get your hands on but at that price you'll be able to find you'd be way better way better off buying this one over this one okay miles better now look i'm like i'm intrigued by things like this but this is a bit rough shape a thousand dollars a thousand dollars for it again smack me call me susie i don't know what the heck to call this stuff like thousand bucks on ebay for beat up and look at that picture what the heck another seller this is in california so for me it's a harder harder buy oh my ships are free and a thousand dollars 20 and for you that's still a good price if it had the low i mean that's that's not that's not unreasonable for some areas of the country at all oh gosh other stuff more in series look at them they are just plentiful oh and then we get into like $1,100 i'm not even opening these 20 m2s $1,200 unservice to bear powers on that's the listing powers on sitting on a pallet in my garage i found it i recycled it now you pay me $1,200 for it that's what those three listings say right there guaranteed look at i mean like you could see the only reason look at this you could see the dude squatting they're taking the pictures right it's got a vacuum or something over here it's got some other appliances so gosh just found them the thing is they're in great condition i can tell look how nice that menu screen looks damn this is just a travesty like i if i could get if i cared you know i would if this person had three of them where are they located again california see you'll notice a lot of these listed in california too which is a plentiful land of pvms so there's a lot of competition for them to try to sell these so i don't i don't think that that's probably i just don't see that actually happening you know at least they're offering shipping and those are the cleanest ones we've seen so far but as far as gosh 1400 after taxes you know we're we're looking we're we're like really over over budget here we got another 2030 actually tested oklahoma i know some people are gonna say i'm crazy but that's not that's not a bad deal at all if you're looking for this 850 make an offer you could get it shipped for a thousand dollars if i needed one like if a museum was talking to me and said i've got two of these in storage right now if a museum called me and said hey we need to order for 2030s well i'd go here and i'd buy this 2030 right away and i'd pray that it was packed right so i can't knock that price too much or anything now these kind of stink they got parts only like this one has the black and white thing going on like i told you it's not been serviced color loss and gosh that's a picture what is that like rudy juliani from the freaking 90s what the hell to some people like and look at this mess golly holy crap i would say this is an easy pass holy you guys seeing this rust build up this thing must have been sitting in a puddle for 20 years and it's the lowest model that it does do rgb though let's see this one doesn't power on probably or they don't know how to i was able to plug in another smell i got a green light on the standby tv sound okay so this is one that was not tested like fully he said they couldn't get an adapter to test it which is understandable pretty good condition you've been much better off buying this one than the last one we looked at but again we're still looking at spending $250 on a whim on a lottery ticket that's what these people are asking for unserviced lottery tickets well you can tell it's yeah rudy rudy's hair dye got the rust in got the rust going oh baby that guy is creepy looking i don't think anybody can disagree with that now look at this this is listed correct correctly but and tested yes balanced and color and i doubt it do we have any pictures of not a you know standard working screen this is now look positive number one may of 2002 this is darn near one of the last m2s you might have found some in 2003 but not not much after that this is that's that's a good thing make an offer california again california we'll be running in the midnight sun like an angel coming back to paradise you know we're gonna share all right 750 again in the land of honey milk and honey for crts is you know not distinguishable enough to sell anyway at least that one's in good shape now look at this bad boy not exactly one i'd look for in 1910 this is very old model i give you one second okay sorry about that let's see what we got so we got just the line a we got some composite video look i like this picture somebody's put there uh what is up with the weird uh political uh listings right well let's so let's just see let me say hang on i want to see what this what the date is on this website image if i can find that out this new york times article and as we just saw i couldn't get that to pull up couldn't get that to pull up but we'll do this what was it we'll do date here we go oh this is blurry i don't know yeah it's not going to happen is it well sorry to waste your time let's see want to check out i mean that's obviously biden so yeah it isn't more more recent picture sometimes never can tell somebody put a picture from damn bill clinton era on that screen but again it's funny like where we run into with like it's not easy to get this darn signal put into this monitor and like oh well let's just pull up the homepage of the new york times on the pvm what would list it for sale that'll be a good idea and uh you know let's just i'm one of the same seller who's like putting up rudy juliani and it's like weird uh subliminal subliminal secrets being shared through ebay stupid uh 80 20 i mean shit sorry my language folks but let's face it this is all garbage like we're about to be done with all the july listings it's garbage 80 20 902s now these 902s are fun they're nice but 300 plus 400 dollars 14 l 5 for 1500 two 902s for 850 none of this stuff is is like palatable i have looked at this one it's got some damage to it 499 but you can see again damaged damaged vital damage right the bezel gosh holy crap 96 so there's a good range for you look at this you got this one from 96 now this one actually looks pretty good in the pictures and stuff it's a gamers so i understand trying to get it get it rid of it it's not a bad price it's a good price but again it's got damage it sucks right well dancing with the stars this lunatic oh yeah maxim smirkovsky and who oh gosh what the hell was that girl's name so my wife yeah she used to watch the crap out of this stuff this is like ah somebody grab a dvd we'll play it and it gets the latin cardio dance workout video now these would be nice if it was the 90 model but this is the 1380 model and that means we do only get uh where's the back show me that show me that sexy input there you go you get two composites and a vtr which is a dead composite input gosh this is junk man nothing nothing oh this is another nl a 902 for too much money look at these pictures i've just got to see what these pictures are again you're smoking crack bro 80 40 for $300 zero bids oh wait this says it's been refurbished hang on maybe let's see what they claim to have refurbished this item has been restored to working order by the ebay seller or third party golly are we getting into some stuff here let's see oh where's my description it's listed as refurbished just says sony try to try and work's fine no use for it pay me my money like what what is this what is this picture bro some snapchat dude oh man my snapchat notifications bro i don't care i'm gonna put them on the ebay listing anyway oh yeah yeah it works trust me man actually it's not even the right model this guy oh it's the rgp model what model actually it's look at this i can't can't even read is this a scam this is a scam this is an 84 40 84 not 84 for a 4 4 4 4 8 0 4 4 q so it is the best of the best this is if this really was seller refurbished refurbished if this really was seller refurbished it would be a good deal but it didn't get battery bays bro it looks like you've been smoking bong rips and just like x-hand like shot shotgun and shotgun and adobe right into the back of your pvm for 15 years so this is like definitely a dk oldies level restoration we can give them that much all right gosh these are like the gifts that keep giving church owned here we go hallelujah hallelujah we'll save you oh man somebody was not gentle removing this one scrape that front up this i just really like these 1354 cues they're the only thing that's coming around at a reasonable price um they're just they're just a hundred dollars too much usually 500 this is a little bit i mean not even a hundred dollars too much this one's 200 dollars too much let's see what do they say this one's actually franklin tennessee which is close to where i used to live in tennessee church gear man so if you're in the church you go get into the you know the av department see if they got any of this stuff hanging around now all right more 82 20s well not even a waste of time looking at that hey use the 1350 let's see this 25 30 1100 dollars what do you think california hey california uh so church is churches made their own uh of course think about churches had video production right they would make their sermons and usually put them on cassette tapes even all the way back in the 90s and dvds choir dvds missions dvds anything that was made like that they probably had somebody in the how in the church that worked that did all that right and they would use a pvm that's it they had pvms they had a professional set up just like um yeah travis maybe sometime man i've had so many stupid other things to do and then problems like i've been running in the mud with these streaming pcs so look at this this is a 1100 monitor but at least it's a 25 30 but i all i have such an outlet like i hate relationship with 25 30 says it's excellent conditioned c because it's so old and it has that darn flyback problem 1987 i hate that oh and says it's been cleaned out opened up not really much else done to it but at least it's a gamer's monitor it's not a bad price but it's in the land of milk and honey honey so we find in it oh here's the thing out 1350 just like the one i have been using like this one right here it's right there right there right there and let's go back to the dashboard and see this one's uh not bad i bet that's just a lot of like debris because it looks like it's in a moving truck u-haul blankets everywhere um see what year is this one from 96 yeah it's about the same pretty clean and it's in california gosh so many in california it came from a working environment oh that doesn't sound confident i don't have confidence in that although it is on my watch list they've watched it not sell about four or five times all right i think we're getting down here where it's just garbanzo beans not going to be anything like they're at now we're all the way into darn what is this we go from a july listing all the way to march june okay and let's look over real quickly and see what's sold recently and then uh i'm going to show you some of the other key things i like to do so first off i like to put in certain numbers like 29 see this didn't show up at all and i don't understand why this hasn't sold right look at this one says it works and uh california so for california you can get like anything you want for a thousand bucks like i if i had this nearby and it was says it worked i would buy it for a thousand dollars right now i'd buy it for a thousand dollars it's not been serviced obviously but this is such an incredible crt this is one of the best one sony ever made in a large format and uh 1998 is the date on that i love this crt i used to have one and i sold it to a museum so you could type in numbers and make other ones show up that don't normally show up right 13 let's see if anything 13 shows up man this is the stupid ones we've already seen this one right here is just a black and white security monitor nothing special seven hundred dollars for a 1342 q forget it we'll put in so you do that you put 19 sometimes the 19s don't want to show up like here's a 1954 q that we didn't get to see i don't think it has a great screen on it but again at least it's the prices and as crazy as the others not shipping it's in new jersey it's not in now these people sell a lot of them okay slight geometry issue okay that's it just go slight geometry issue just needs a recap and calibration i think this might be the best darn deal on ebay right now for that pvms his arrest this stuff is just out of control fifth same monitor right here buy it now for 2400 dollars okay so we're running into dead ends but i knew that that 2950 would show up and had not shown up before so the other thing we can do is let's just take a quick look at what has sold right get down here sold items doesn't mean it's really sold but here we go ended recently someone got a great deal here right look at this one this is in park city utah ski country if you love to go skiing and it's not from a reseller or not a big time reseller professional monitor standard inputs i do not right now i do not have a box of ship if you're interested we can work out shipping wow somebody might have gone shipping on this it's like a little bit deeper um what was it it was just a straight up somebody probably in utah picked it up nice one nice deal 600 bucks i mean if that was here if that was here like in my city like within 20 minutes drive i would definitely buy it 600 bucks for 20 inch 20 oh five baby why aren't any of mine showing up i bought some anyway yes it's hard to get a grip on oh because i got 19 right there uh 20 oh five though june 4th 1200 that is a good good deal and 2023 let's try that see what else shows up should show some more there we go 14 m2 oh that's a good good price that just ended just ended look at that $500 $505 roughly save on pat gear selling $500 for 1442 cue from jordan and i don't mean really did someone really buy this why is it giving me this january 10th sales data 8040 somebody paid $200 for an 8040 oh gosh why did you do this who did it who actually bought who did it you need to fess up right now which one have you who bought the minty fresh 8040 for $225 oh my gosh this is this is close to me virginia it's in my state surplus oh my goodness and then they give me another funny computer background i don't know how they got all the hookups for this stuff there's a black and white one this price is man the parts only look at this it's got the wings out wing tips like the flying nun 14 l2 whoo see this is what i'm talking about man i missed this one i'd have bought this i'd have bought this can etiquette baby nice bright screen fully working very clean good deal $390 under 400 400 with tax that's in the wheelhouse all day 14 l2 goodness 902 i knew this one was going to sell because it just kept dropping in price was on my watch list i just don't like this monitor just don't like it at all this d9 bvm 360 though you can't can't argue that's a good price on it oh i saw this one too but was not in my area 650 for a 20 l2 other great deal hey aca aka wabba jack uh we've got an n5 that somebody accidentally bought i wonder if they returned that because they realized it doesn't do what they want all these ends and ls and not oh my goodness not rgb monitors i don't know if somebody's modding these the ones i don't know why you'd buy it black and white there's gotta be a reason for that now that's got burn in it says a lot of sales happening though look at this i saw these and i thought they would sell to these 14 l5 so we're listed for a thousand one of them had some dings in it but one of them looks pretty clean oh come on who who did this too who bought this $600 504 1q 14m to you inbox thousand dollars is it really in the original box it's definitely a gamer right by the bang by the boom don't tell me you don't tell me you don't play games don't tell me you don't play games what we got there got the whole shebang where's the box i came for the box baby oh man it's a nice box somebody had box box envy that's what that's all about 80 40 $240 14m to you look at this is a good deal actually this might be one no i didn't mm-hmm that's not one i bought i mean my sales the ones i bought are not showing up look at this somebody got a 14 l5 for 750 this month it's a great deal 750 best offer i wonder if they got a best offer and got a lower 1354 q 400 best offer or buy it now here's another church one let's see that's been re-listed right so that was obviously not bought we saw that one re-listed i wonder if i bought this one i think this might be the one i bought that showed up cracked oh goodness 80 40 i mean this is a good deal well a decent deal if they get a best offer to 25 30 for 600 so you can see what they're kind of selling for right there's nothing crazy selling they're all selling for it's the same kind of models and then we got to 15 uh 20 25 30 got up to 510 dollars in bids it's not very much someone here made a good listing and they just got a thousand dollars for their bids on that one got a little bid frenzy there you just noticed that occasionally about once every two weeks three weeks a really good listing shows up and sells look at this this is something this is one we haven't seen very long very often the from dallying california man i used to sell these for like 400 bucks because nobody wanted them and uh now you at least this guy put a walter white thing on here i think i've got like a tube with 600 hours on it and i've got all the boards in it does this come with any boards let's see ah so man that's still a high price it doesn't come with the rgb board what you get is a composite and s video board right here so you got composite s video and hd sdi and sdi and then right here you would essentially put in your clone card for the 68x and if you go over here and actually that monitors gosh 1402 for two thousand dollars in a box new whoo i don't believe this sold at all so maybe smoking crack again no way no no no no no you're crazy didn't happen don't believe it oh look this might be the one i bought june 14th i don't know was it baton rouge louis anna let's see let's look at the original listing i may have oh it had a two stocker i don't know be honest with you this may be the one i bought that we fixed no this isn't because this one works the one i bought didn't didn't power on or didn't have pictures of it powered on i'm sorry definitely not it so there's still some slipping through the cracks that we're not seeing let's try to find the 1350 i bought it i mean i bought it recently and it's not here it's not showing up maybe they had a label wrong or something that i don't i'm not going to log into my account and uh and do that hey matthew too broken gosh stuffer stuffer that sucks yeah these could see from my videos how many show up busted i uh i went looks back i think i bought nine pvm so far in 2023 all uh or the sets of ebay purchases and at least there's about a 50 50 rate right now on making it and and not making it but it's most of the time it goes lower than that the actual rate it sucks so much stuff getting wasted and i'm willing to communicate with people and do things the right way but you know that goes all right guys um let's see there's anything else worth we're checking out here it's been a long stream about three hours i wanted to give this good test today um we'll do a quick rundown see if we could find anything on these other platforms before we get out of here because that should be a lot quicker let's switch over here to our local craigslist so if we have any just see what happens when you type in pvm no results how about trinitron hey results oh now this is going to be what we're looking at nowadays look at this one i like that look at that one oh baby show me your secrets i doubt it turns on oh it does turn on where is this worked well as tv but has been sitting for years in a temperature cold about controlled environment oh gosh this is a lot of info much 150 bucks all right no that's in philadelphia too man it's giving me stuff zero it says locally it's philadelphia i'm getting freaking philadelphia stuff uh uh even all the way to philly they're not finding anything listed on uh on this website all right gotta go like old tv style there's a wall mount zena 36 inch golly talk about a backbreaker oh yeah now that's what i'm talking about show me that sexy bubble please move this from my house actually this one has this is probably one of those really sharp tubes too that you could use in the most massive uh arcade machine if you had to gosh just nothing absolutely nothing does the emerson or the dynex emerson do i think a d8 15 or 14 d14 the clone is a good deal sure yeah that's a good deal that monitor if it works sure because that one does progressive so you can go up into 1080 i with that kind of a setup noregan that's an incredible deal through 25 gosh i remember the good old days when you when i remember when i got my first huge load of crts and i was thinking what the heck am i doing no one's gonna buy all these pvms i was like i've got 10 of them and no one's gonna want one of these things i've made myself stucks it's like scranton i mean we get nothing we got a freaking guinea pig here the ai on craigslist is just rubbish no wonder nobody uses this platform anymore okay thank you craigslist let's try let's try old tv first in this one this is closer stanton all right charlottesville yes but it's just old these are my kind of prices though baby this is right in my backyard let's see what this is oh come on are you gonna just not show me it sharp flatty not much info freebie though let's see this one we got we had a blurry focus man can't tell what that sylvania's got we got a little woody an old woody here here gosh this picture man look at this creepy creepy doll stuff it's like my basement this is an original owner gosh it's got that nice rca tube see this is the kind you almost want do you have to go pick this son of a gun out we're in craigsville oh yeah i know where craigsville is oh let's see anything fun here there's some fun stuff timberville this is close this is a freebie zenith zenith so you can get your rocks off on a crt and get one for free if you really want one still now it's not going to be great any like this is a decent thing to get right well 50 bucks i don't know i like the wood grain on there you know this one is a very good opportunity also though to be a usable for an arcade machine if you happen to have the same type type tube size machine that's a great candidate look at this one what size is this this is another one that could be gosh 2067 i think it's another 20 inch one but i'd go with something like this right i think it's 20 inch look at it bounce it's thing it on a plastic garbage can good grief i am not buying any guinea pigs no way my sister had guinea pigs they were insane that's what i say koa koa if you find the right size tube you got to buy this you got like i would buy this if it was a 27 inch or because it would be usable 25 to 27 inches pretty pretty much the size look at this oh how about this how about this lovely thing 200 dollars dog look at this beautiful 87 that's it oh that's a monster look at the size of that television look at the size of that it's a 27 inch what is all that stuff under it so that whole piece of furniture is gosh i just love this one don't you that one would not go in an arcade machine because it's the wrong type of uh tube but man oh look at the old lady she's taking a picture of it damn that thing look original owner still works great original owner snap man that thing's beautiful oh my goodness oh so it's stop i gotta stop looking at this thing or it's gonna i'm gonna go get it oh how far away is dafford virginia hang on a second i guess we look at this map right oh what does all this say oh this is like here let me show you this is how far almost the dc distance so and there's no like direct path right i have to go through this right out in the country so this would definitely be a two hour two hour each way ride more likely damn that's a hard sell that's i mean that's a hard that's a hard thing to pass up and a hard thing to do here's another one someone trying to drop a 80 dollar boy look at i mean they're getting a ton of information from these people on their tv's goodness the thing has not been moved in forever look at all the nastiness built up on that sucker yuck like if i was going to list something like this even in my house and ask 80 bucks i would at least clean these nasty ass cobwebs off it and like looking back here it's like oh gross man i'd be embarrassed i really want to go get that damn thing look at this another oh oh look at this god look at this crazy son of a bitch tv pet dog cat i know it still works lol just hoping someone can use it for making a pet bed or other craft come on man oh my word look at this it's like he's like the mummy superfan or loves earth wind and fire or loves uh what's this anubis i can't even remember the dog anyway fun stuff here like what is golly look at that floor art deco what a psychopath i do not want to turn your thing into a cat bed if it still works too now that's a little creepy i wouldn't go into that other place but i would have gone to the first lady's house that's all the flavors here's one full flavor then oh two different shots thanks for the shots it's cool but no need for this stuff really no use for it personally that's a little out of my wheelhouse i don't go back that far the solid state tv's all right where are we now sears portable we're gonna try some other other things we're getting some more stuff at least on this thing oh for a second i was like wait a second there's not even an input cable on this tv because i thought that was the power look at that baron input board goodness gracious that's like the baron wasteland of crt there has to be like 15 components on uh on that board in there yeah shango he's the expert on the older stuff man and um that stuff i'm afraid i'd actually shock myself on some of those older things they're a little bit more wily all right this is we're out of old tv's let's go and see what it says about so let's just see what happens on tape insomniate pvm not a pvm just the same gosh get out of my life i'm gonna have to block that lady so i don't buy it let's try trinitron gateway we got a saño that's a saño not a trinitron dude gate this is a vivitron not trinitron right or is it a trinitron i don't know this is one of the older ones gateway 2000 oh wow look at this hey see this is the thing you'll see some areas have a lot of stuff listed look at this this is a lovely lot look at that each at 30 bucks who if i was in Ohio baby take me to Ohio oh that panasonic would be mine i love i've got one of these i think no it's not rca mine's magnivox it's in my storage unit that's what i do is just film my storage unit up and wear this stuff i love these sylvania nice little thing there i take the panasonic all right here list these things i'd probably take sylvanian one i'd take these three in the front right here and i would pay i would make a deal probably like 70 bucks let's say give me a lease for 70 bucks outside my area there's a lot of good looking oh look at this west virginia mountain mama oh my gosh oh my gosh free box tv's in stock this one looks like it's been out here getting gravel kicked on it for look at that look at that some poor retro gamer is shedding the tear right now checking out this i mean is that's a trinitron down there that's the big wide screen big wide screen one wow well as much as i'd love to sit here and do this all day i think i'm gonna call it a day fellas i really appreciate you some of you guys been here all day and uh thanks again everybody uh this has been really fun just going through stuff getting a chance to test the streaming gear um if you want to go back and check out the first half you could check out the four restorations we went through that happened last week in the shop and then uh we've just been crt shopping for the last hour here so it's pretty fun uh i'm going to continue to work on the system and hopefully i'll be able to stream with you in a couple days from now so anyway thanks again everybody again if you haven't already please do me a favor hit the like button that way people will know that