 Hey everybody, so back when I was in high school This would have been the late 1990s and early 2000s It was kind of a trend down here in the south and that was to get a truck and you know add some kind of lift Suspension kit to it Specifically when I was in high school my best friend had a truck just like this one in the background here it was a Dodge Ram late 90s and He was kind of the rich kid of our friends Because I didn't have any car growing up till about my senior year after I worked the whole three years before that to buy something And he basically was given a car, you know right when he turned 16, which is fine We had something to get around in but long story short Everybody back then would add these little kits to lift their Old-school trucks or even their newer trucks. They were about a hundred fifty two hundred dollars really cheap Nothing too special. There were spacers and something you just add to your suspension So you could get about three more inches of lift on your truck and The reason I'm bringing it up and just parallel something else I've been thinking about and working on I recently was looking through some eBay stuff And I found an interesting item and that's these little rubber Anti-vibration feet for Sony PVM and BVM monitors. These ones are listed in save-on Pats eBay store and so I actually found a set of these while I was recently salvaging some old CRTs and PVMs And I've been saving them thought I'd put them on a monitor And I finally figured out that I found the right perfect monitor to put them on So but just so you know a little bit of a teaser on something I got coming up I did hire save-on Pat to work on some things for me. So that's just a little teaser I'm not going to get too far into that anymore, but just note that we will be having something come up We'll work together on something and Today though, I want to get back to this upgrade for the anti-vibration feet This monitor is of course the Sony PVM 14.0 5. It's a great little monitor. It is so versatile It goes, you know from 240p all the way up to 1080i has a lot of inputs It even has a speaker in there the problem with it is extremely small Format which kind of means the screen to me sits a little bit low this is mine and you can tell when I put it up on a flat surface it really just sits right on there and The whole monitor itself is barely over ten ten inches not even ten and a half inches tall to begin with so That means it's like the bottom of the screen since there's no control buttons. They've all been moved to the sides of the monitor it's actually almost directly on the bottom of The table you've only got about an inch and a half not even two inches before your screen and display starts and So, you know depending on how you're going to set this thing up This is kind of a perfect monitor for this now these feet will work on other brand or other versions of PVMs and BVMs You know on 20 inches PVMs, you'll see them all the time on there. Here's a set of them It's really just four feet with some anti-vibration rubber Put on the bottom of them and then you got four screws with washers to go in there and to set them in place but you'll notice that when you get like 14 inch BVMs and especially the L5 The screen sits so low that you might want to increase You know your your height a little bit on your BVM and get a little bit better of an Iset for your picture on wherever you're setting the screen up now These will give you just over a half an inch. Let's say be about five eighths of an inch extension here Which I'm hoping will help raise this up a little bit more and make it a little bit easier To view while you've got something on it and you know, there's another big issue. I'll show you When you flip this over I'm going to be installing the feet but They go in these little holes, which are obviously there for the feet the thing I want you to notice real quick though while I'm installing them is this Cut out right here in the middle of the bottom of the pvm. That's actually the speaker on this monitor So if you have not got these feet on there the speaker sits against Whatever table you're using or surface you've got it sitting directly on and that actually can muffle that sound or even add Vibration under there and just sounds terrible You know what these little bit of extension on these feats going to actually do is give a little bit of clearance So when I do want to use that on-board speaker I can just use it and it won't be bouncing straight back into the monitor shell and and sounding funny It'll actually give it a little bit of a space for those sound waves to travel under the pvm and get out so I could actually hear them and It's a pretty simple straightforward process of installing them But please note that you saw me do this while the monitor was unplugged completely and not turned on You don't want to do this while your monitor is set up and plugged in and turned on Because I can definitely give you a little bit of issues with screen purity and you don't want to do that Just better do was turned off. So we're getting right at again five eighths of an inch An expansion in that size and it does lift the center view up to about a six-inch point on The CRT and the whole monitor now is 11 inches. So again, this is like a double-edged sword I consider with this monitor. It's so great that it's so tightly compacted and You know, it really can save space for CRT However, I don't like the fact that the CRT sits so low and you have to stack it up a bit to get a little bit higher I level with it Here I've got it set up finally with a I even added another board under it to get it up To about a full inch of lift on there and then I can easily move it around with as anti-vibration Feet and not worry about really anything happen into the monitor and it keeps everything nice and level So for 12 bucks, I think it's a good upgrade if you don't have them on there already Another thing I will mention though this to keep you thinking if you get a PVM and it doesn't work And you want to salvage the parts these little things could be salvaged and sold within the community obviously for 12 to $15 for a set and Can really go to help somebody else out So if you do just get a monitor, you know donated to you gifted to you you find one in the trash and it doesn't work you could still source out a lot of the parts in there and Get yourself, you know some cash for just the parts or save them for when you get a monitor That's nice, and you want to upgrade it a little bit with a nice touch like this now What you're noticing here is the turbo graphics 16. I finally got one of these things this last weekend I got one from my friend Matt and he also hooked me up with a Prototype that will allow me to get RGB right out of the back of it I actually had to use my HD retro vision Sega 2 style cables with that little Device to get RGB converted over to component because I didn't realize till now to Turbografics 16 is really just crazy about Sync and doesn't want to sync up to any monitor except for my D series monitors Which have a vcr mode which for some reason works perfectly with that system and let's hook up in sync Every other system I had to kind of work around and convert it over to component with those cables But it worked perfectly after that and it really just Looks great in 240p on this monitor but that's just another little thing you might want to think about considering if you have a 14l5 or heck any monitor that does not already have the feet on it as I said earlier there's definitely 20 inch PVMs that you can add these feet to as well as probably 14 inch PVMs and Others so if you're looking for a nice way to get a nice lift on your monitor Check out those things because this is an easy install and it's relatively cheap And I think it does add a lot like a cool little look and character to the monitor If it didn't have it before I think it looks better than just sitting there flat That's my personal opinion. Let me know what you think and Let me know if you pick up a set of these you end up installing them and what you think of them And I'll definitely have more to come for you guys on CRTs and other repairs Have a great day and I'll see you next time with some more retro content