 Hey everybody, hey, hey, hey out there. What's up? I want to thank you all for coming in today. That's right We're back back to a normal week here in the bunker. Thank you all for showing up today and I do have a fun topic to discuss with you as well as a cheap PVM to show to you show you excuse me Before that, I'm gonna get into some things talk about What's been going on why I've been gone for a week what's been going on during that week and As I do that, please come in get yourself nice and cozy grab a hot cup of coffee and Take a sip here. Cheers to you. Welcome in everybody and please if you don't mind Do start off by hitting that like button for me? It will help out It will let people know that the show is on this week because I took a week off last week and So I don't know how many people are gonna show up I do some people I do see a lot of great folks here in the chat already and I'm gonna give you guys some shoutouts here in a second Thank you Belmont for coming in today. That's always awesome to see you here and everybody else Daniel Gonzalez. Thank you for thank you for Helping me out with a request for the like zero sleep. Welcome in and I'm gonna get some more shoutouts here in a minute But yeah, it's been a great great little week I had a chance to take some time off. I also finally came out with a new regular video production which most of you probably saw and That was on that amazing little KV 9 4 0 0 television that I got from the estate sale Which most of you would have seen in that video or on the stream Sorry, and then the video had me getting shocked in it with my best electro boom impersonation and so The views were reflected in that so we actually got some more views in that than I'd anticipated so Anyway, thank you everybody for coming in I'm definitely gonna hit y'all up with Some shoutouts here. Let's start mega cards. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. Oh, I got you guys Cozy cathodes welcome back Kevin McQuillan. Hey there black patron. Welcome in plate fork Nim rats Thank you. Cheers to you PO 17. Welcome back CRT my friend. That's right. We'll talk about some budget PVMs Star jammer welcome in. Hey mark mark Bessert. Welcome back Ronnie S. Star jammer Thank you all for being here. Everybody else come in hang out Get yourself Nice and cozy as I said and we're gonna get we're gonna get into this awesome budget PVM I've got here and We'll talk about what's good about it. What's lacking in it what it What gives it more value and and I'll tell you how much I got it for and Belmont's already in the chat saying how much I can't see my let's see. What'd you say? How much was that? $200 20 or is that $20? Sorry my Cursors in the way. I don't know why it's giving me this thing. I think oh 20 day 20 minutes away. Sorry 20 minutes away Well, this was when I bought off eBay surprise it was shipped actually while I was out of town and So here it is though I won't you know wasting your time with that because maybe you'll see a video about that The unboxing here, but anyway, this one only cost me Only cost me Are you ready? How much do you think? This was shipped to me shipped to me Again eBay buy it now price. It was a recycler. I'll tell you all those things and I actually got it with tax included for $192 and shipping that was shipping included to shipping packing Which is nuts basically nuts. I don't know how this person made me money That's to me $20 30 off the transaction or something and So I saw the price actually was referred to me from a friend He said he didn't want to buy an ass if I would buy it. I said, well, yeah for that price. I'll try it So yes, that's right Only the low low low low low low low low price of two hundred dollars under two hundred dollars. Sorry So deals can still be had we have the hype of You know, rightfully so of our friend You know Roger over an 8-bit Esquire talking about the CRT being emulated Near perfectly with by the retro Retro take 4k so Rightfully so you may find a better deal on PVM's Right now. I don't know. Maybe some people are trying to sell some extras. Who knows But I don't think this is see that's a thing. This is not one that was tested really much Didn't know what that where it was gonna be working. Of course. I knew that, you know, it would It would probably work based on the pictures, but there's no No, yeah, just kidding of course the no, you know, anyway, this is it This is it Cole's not even joining us yet today. I don't know what's going on with him Hope everybody's having a great morning. Oh here he comes. I hear him watch. You might become oh, there he goes Right past the door He's going now. He's gonna go jump in his bed. There he is. Good timing Cole Right on cute. Look at that. I'll add to do is say his name. He just runs in here. Anyway You can definitely find these still available on eBay if you're patient and hang out you don't really know the condition of them of course and Unless it's really documented and if it is it's gonna sell quickly Especially at like this price like $200 shipped. That's pretty darn low and kind of worth the gamble because again If anything would happen to this and it wouldn't start and it was damaged eBay would refund me the money and I would just be able to file for return through a eBay and Thankfully that didn't happen here So that makes the last two guys the last two that have come in have actually survived shipping this of course It's probably one of the better deals. I've gotten in a few years on eBay. Okay So we got going here. We're at about, you know, we got a good-sized crowd in here. Let's How's everybody else doing huh you love gambling for CRTs, that's right well That's what that's what it's really all about it's just trying to get A lot of these things a lot of these things back and service them so this will eventually get a full restoration and things But I also want to get into some depths on a lot of people are talking about the end series But today we're gonna specifically talk about a series Great a series of PVMs the 50 series Okay, and this is the 13 inch 50 series because this is a darn good value at PVMs We'll check out some pricing here But we're gonna go through really the differences in The one I have here, which is a 50 series and then there are other models I'm gonna show you some pictures of them and I'm gonna show you Kind of you know some of the characteristics of each What's the difference between them because there are some key characteristics that are different that you should Know about and then we're gonna talk about some pricing and what To expect to pay for these what you know the average I'll talk about my restoration process a little bit more on this set and The costs for that So you can get a really good idea On specifically this 50 series again great budget PVM and as I do that Jump in a chat feel free to add any insights you may have on Budget PVMs that you think are good deals Or if you've had the opposite happen where maybe you tried to get a good deal and it didn't really go great I did have some people again on Twitter that Showed me some pretty bad things that had happened to them where they bought PVMs on eBay And of course had shipping problems, you know, you know the story there and of course that's always gonna happen I've shown that to where I've had just as many shipping problems as I've had good Experiences it's really about 50-50 So you can't really get your two hope hopes up too high But once it arrives and it's good It really can be worth the price and the time and the patience even with shopping on eBay Because somebody's gonna buy them and naturally if you could take advantage of being Local to something and picking up that PVM locally you're gonna do much better that way And you'll be able to save on shipping costs, of course and That way you can get a little bit better deal But again as I said I got this one for a hundred and ninety two dollars and that's what made me think I found plenty of thirteen fifties online and even the fifty four cube and so I thought you know this is an amazing line to talk to you guys about and It's one that does a lot and that is A good value and I'll go through why okay, and then it actually gives you good differential on each value line and kind of What you can expect? You know as far as like the top tier mid tier and then probably low tier models of this fit 13 50 series, okay So with all that being said that's about a 10 minute introduction here. I hope everybody's been doing awesome I will let you know that like while I've been gone. Let's do little stories story time. There's a lot going on I know that Probably a lot of you don't care anything about sports or stuff, which is cool. I don't care I'm not going to waste a lot of your time talking about that We did have my college that I'm here JMU Did have college game day a couple weeks back that was probably after my last I Talked about this a little on the last show The college game day game came here. There's a bunch of cool stuff and then of course last week I went to Back to Tennessee to visit family in the Nashville area and I went to a predators game and that was pretty wild and on Monday night and then I Went through and I spent a lot of time like many of you probably did if you're in America and celebrate Thanksgiving with family members lots of people and Unfortunately, I caught a head cold and then I had to drive. I had to drive back. Yeah, congratulations, Ronnie Big win for Michigan fans. I had to drive back home from Tennessee, which normally is about a seven and a half hour drive and it took goodness gracious it took about two and a half hours longer than normal just because it was bumper-to-bumper slo-go traffic and That's that was all sucky on top of having a cold and so anyway I didn't want to miss this show though, and then I had this PVM come in while I was gone So I had to get this thing unboxed today, but that's what you're looking at is the 1351 queue That's what I've been doing So that's how my last week was spent Let's take a look over here at some information information time Information time so do this for me. We're gonna get into this discussion on this budget line of PVMs. We're gonna start By looking at The service manual just so I can give you guys a little bit of difference between The one we're looking at the one I bought and what the other two Because all three of these models that you see on your screen are different I'm gonna go through the differences here with you and We're gonna look at them all together, but please if you can and you haven't already hit the like button for me So that everybody knows this show is going on today. I appreciate you all and let's get into it The 1350 series this is the 12 13 minute mark. We're gonna timestamp this later on Look at this there are three there are three and And you will find these to be different if you are in a different region. You'll find different versions of these This is specifically The US and Canadian models. All right. There's a Japanese model and There might be an Australian model. I'm not sure But this is just the US and Japanese models We have the 1350 51 queue and 54 queue now what you're looking at What you're looking at here is a 1350 one queue, okay? 1350 one queue. All right, and that's the one we're gonna be talking about more specifically like that, but We're going to look at all Three of these models because they all have different feature sets. Okay? specifications But they will look super similar. They will look almost the same All right First off if you're worried about any kind of support for Color systems on composite Do not worry. This supports pal C cam NTSC And NTSC 4.43. Okay, and then right under that we're gonna get into the resolution Yes Resolution is different. This is one of the big differences here And I don't know why they left the 50 model out of the specifications here We'll see if there's another thing that says I don't believe there's a specification Just for the 50 but maybe there is later on down. We'll see First thing to notice the high resolution one the high resolution monitor in this Line is the 54 queue It's the 54 queue Okay, so the 1354 queue is the best of this line It has a 600 TV line tube And then if I go down here, we'll also say it right here the CRT is the C-phosphor CRT STMPC phosphor CRT Whereas the 51 queue and the 50 Have a 450 TV line tube. I believe that I mean it doesn't say 50 here We're gonna verify that if we can because I've got some a file of a restoration I did on a 50 and we'll look at some things on those on an actual monitor But this is your TV line count and your resolution said higher line count is a higher resolution higher resolution on the tube So 600 lines for the 54 450 for the 30 1351 and below and the same thing would go if you had a 19-inch version of this Okay A lot of these other things do not matter so much Now That's just one of the differences. Let's just slide down this page Let me see if we can find anything. It doesn't say it says specifications. Okay, here we go It actually does have a specifications page just for the 1350. I was wrong. That's good like I said 450 yep same tube as the 51 cube sorry Cole's already snore him He's out he's out So this one has the P2 phosphor P22 phosphor tube, okay That's a big difference So you're gonna get all things considered the same you're gonna get a sharper image on the 54 queue Okay Now it's not immensely sharper But it's pretty dark. I mean it's a little bit of a kick up. Okay now Let's talk about some other things that are different on the picture If you look down here, there are different color temperatures available for The 51 and the 54 queue They have different ones. They have a 6500 K 9300 K selectable and then a user one which you can factory set between 3200 K and 100 K. Okay Okay, okay, okay a lots of K's there. All right so that's the color temperature That's allowable for this set now if we go down to the 1350 the 1350 only has One color temperature so you cannot just change the color temperature Okay Hey David welcome in yeah Good job. See there's are all around the same price. These are really great deals people are talking about getting Hey snuffer stuffer welcome back so there's a little bit about the differences on the actual Visual side of these monitors. So you have three categories. We're already breaking these things down Three things okay Top tier on this list is going to be 54 Q mid tiers 51 Q and then the bottom level on this family is 50 Okay, but that doesn't really like say that Again, this is tearing how and telling you the differences between these three Whereas all three of these are going to fall under this budget PVM that you can generally find for 200 to 300 bucks. All right So that's what that's what we're talking about mostly. That's what I want to reiterate here Now there's one more big difference between the 50 and the 51 and the 54 Q and that's the inputs There's gonna be a couple of different things on the input on the front board, which I'll show you In a picture file here to say it for the 50, but if we look over If you look over just at this PVM, this has a very familiar button board down here that I'm sure a lot of you have seen before It's got two full rows of buttons here Lots of things you can you know, these are all input selections right up here top line and this is a sync button and Then you have D gauze blue only under scan horizontal Delay and a 16 by 9 mode and then you have your menu buttons and your up-down buttons To select through your menu that is going to be exactly the same on Both the 51 and the 54 Q. Okay Same same same nothing's different But when you get to the 1350 it does not have all those things and I can show you best with pictures. Okay. This is one of the most recent 1350s. I serviced 50 okay, and if we look down here This is a much simpler Button board there is no External sync button There's no Under scan button There's no delay button, and there's no 16 by 9 button. Okay notice all those are missing. You also do not get Unfortunately component video support on this 1350 that is another big big deal. Okay You don't get component video support on the 50 you get RGB. So That's great, and you get external sync That's great, but you do not get component video support with that CRT You do get component video support on the 51 Q and the 54 Q So that's additional stuff that you're not getting Unfortunately with this 50 series. That's why it only says ABC and RGB You get two composite video lines One S video line and an RGB with sync. Okay, and Then just these couple buttons. So that's what makes this really the a that the you know the Entry tier of these fifties is this Basic nature of this CRT Now again, this is a line that's from the early 90s. So generally speaking you're gonna find these from about 1992 Up to 96 ish might find them a little bit beyond those years. I'm not that's just from the top of my head But that's this one's from 94. That's generally speaking when you'll you'll find these It's from that early 90s period. So it's just analog video. Just 240p and just 480. I How we all doing out there? Huh Is everybody doing wonderful this Monday? I know we're just getting in here and chatting about some CRTs But I want to make sure you all doing great All right, so let's buzz through some more photographs here the back of this CRT You can tell you only get that RGB input down there and sync. Okay, and There's your other inputs nothing else Let's let's see when this one was this was from 95 There you go. Okay I'm gonna buzz down in this and look through some other photographs This is a this is again. Let's well. I'll show you what the inside of one of these looks like It's gonna look very much the same as the 50 for all these look very similar. There might be a couple more components added There you go That's how you hook up RGB. There's the neckboard. There's the power supply Right in there. All these have been serviced. This would have been a service model and there you go It's definitely good CRT for a starter and let's let's do some pricing real quick Let's see what we can find one of these four Thanks, Daniel Actually, let's go to eBay Okay, let's try and see if there are any Sony PVM even let's just go for it 1350 Mmm, so here's one. I mean this is probably on the highest end you want to pay For one this at least is tested, right? Now this is not, you know, this is what I'm talking about is unserviced, right? Please do not misconstrue that with A service set a service set of this would be worth a lot more, but this is the entry so I would still be You know A big bit patient before paying 400 for that one unless I really needed one and really wanted one But that's not, you know, at least we found one. Let's see if any have sold And what they are selling for or have sold for Now see that one was sold in it. So here we go Again 195 dollars plus 30. This is Right. Look, there you go There's two that sold around the same time for about the same price Right under 250 dollars Uh, no Kevin actually the oe v 143 is a medical monitor and it is actually a higher end pvm That one is going to be like the 14m to mdu So if you want to know more about that check that one out check out some information on that I do have videos about that pvm So there you go There's two that have sold on here And that's within the last month Okay Let's check out Of course, we'll probably find mine in here There's no 51 queues listed. You have a 54 queue Look at this Is this right? See, I mean if you wanted to get the high end one of these this is you know This is about what I'd expect to pay. It looks like it's working pretty good. I mean it's dirty but Not bad. Not terrible make an offer And uh 429 are best offer. It's pretty much tested I would just you know, I know how to refurbish these but that's There you go. That's a 13 fill 54 queue, which is again the top tier of this budget Budget price list now you let's see what we can find For sold ones Will that change Look at this see It doesn't show mine. That's funny No, maybe this is the one I bought I didn't make an offer But I might have this might have been the one I bought Oh, it's ship. Yeah, this was it because it would be plus the 5% shipping. This is the one I bought Yeah, one. This is the one I bought. Sorry This is the one you're looking at This is this is the listing for this one Okay Okay, that's the listing for it And I don't know look how beautiful it was the thing they did was they they taped to the darn thing in so much tape It's got sticky tape all over the side of it This was listed and it was originally 160 And it sat there and they dropped the price but this was it Uh powered on for parts it says shipping shipped very quickly power cord included No additional accessories. That's really all it said power tested and then you see that Okay, that's what I saw There you go all good things normal stuff. There's a good look at the input board So the down uh when we were looking at this one We're looking at this 1350 and I was talking about that input board It only has input for rgb and sync and there's no I forgot about that. Look at that. There's no output for it But the 54s and the 51 cues can let you output the signal So you can run daisy chains out of that monitor monitor Okay All right, so enough bragging about that great deal Uh, but look at this. I didn't even get the best deal Here's another one And these can also sell for a bunch of money. See this one If you have it tested and and looking good And you do all this right stuff about Listing it you can get a good price These people know what they're talking about and they sell a lot of monitors this mcom Inc But look at this one. This one went for 110 dollars. Goodness gracious. Here's another one And these are auctions 120 dollars. Here's another one 202. I mean, that's probably the same These might be some of the same monitors that just didn't end up getting paid for They're not They're not breaking the bank. See this one's been sold a couple times probably canceled. Look at that double sale, right? anyway, and And Finally, let's see what the actual 54 q is sold for lately and again, this is the highest end one And again, you can get well, this was a local pickup. Okay, so what did I tell you local pickup? Going to get you the best deals This is um under hundred dollar buy for the top tier. What look at that. Someone got a good deal there Uh missing the label. Oh, well, we can we can see why this one was actually just kind of look at that. It's a rough shape No wonder it's local pickup only. Oh never mind All right, let's not worry about that one Well, all right the 54 q is selling for more on average Uh this one For 50 although didn't have best offer. Here's one for 500 or best offer This one sold For parts 210 dollars So it is one that you can find on ebay And uh not have it break your bank as we just as I just showed you now When you go in and you want to get one of these restored I do the uh upgrade kit, which is another thing you've noticed probably when you see I'm looking at this is this kit right here. This is a save on pat kit right here. Okay It's got what does it got? I think it's got like 25 capacitors in it. Maybe I do this I do a little bit more than this kit has and then uh Service the power supply service this board service the neck board So you would invest You know, I charged $600 for the restoration package here for patron members to do the full restoration package on this crt This line of crt is pretty much and So you're talking about you know getting a fully restored one If you get a good deal on one for $800 $900 pretty easily fully restored them. That's pretty darn good deal I mean you can resell those for that much people will buy restored ones all day if you have a documentation right on them All right, so that's it. Let's see. Let's go back to this actual pvm Okay Yeah, so I'm sorry This is it 600 or not 600. This is the 450 tv line, too Now if I was uh, if this was a 54 q it would have hr written here That's really the only difference you're going to notice on the front of any of a 54 q and a 51 q. Okay Now if I go into my files and I search deep dark in the abyss I may be able to pull up a photo Or two of some 54 qs if I can find them And we can see how those will look in comparison to something like this So let's just see what we can do Let's see what I have in my folders. I'm going to check so when I got the uh, I got first off I got that file with the monitors Uh information from console mods wiki So check that out if you want to find more information on crts And Let's see about the drive folder that I have and I'll see if I can find some 54 q 13 54 q Let's see. Oh, I do have 54 q maybe Yeah Man, it's been a while since I've had one of those in the shop. I don't actually have Anything let me just show you what that hr will look like on the front There you go. See has this logo up here hr trinitron right there. It's from the only difference And you got to remember this is This is the 50 series because when you go up Beyond this the m series is the next one after this then you start to get in a whole different series of monitors That's not what we're talking about Mario I get my capacitors from two places either mouser or digikey It just depends some of them are in stock sometimes I just switch it up Between those two companies that's where I usually get them So that's the really the only difference between The 54 and the 50 let's see what yeah, there's absolutely nothing else different And that's the good thing if you have any issues, it's literally just a different tube In those two monitors between the 50 and 51 q. I'm sorry in the 54 q. It's just a different tube Everything else is like the same so you can actually use the parts from 51 q and a 54 q if you have an issue if you have to have parts monitors if you want to get a couple of them Yes, Daniel the eight that's right the eight inch series goes 250 tv lines to 450 tv lines on the higher resolution Oh There you go. That's what same input board as the 51 and the 51 and 54 are the same exact input boards Same cap kits Same everything This was a couple years back this restoration. Wow in a 1351 All right, the larger ones are going to be the same the uh The 19 inch are going to follow along the same lines Uh as this but I've never seen the 1951 q. That's interesting 1954 q. Yes. I don't know if there is a 1950 That's interesting. I've not thought about that Kohl's back to snoring She was very forgotten anything but forgotten anything Uh, no, they left the hr on there all the way up to the last crts. It's on like the l series Uh pvms. I'm looking at three of them right here. It's on all of them It just has to be the l4 or the l5 If it's the l2 it won't say it Or the l1 So there's other uh, I know a lot of people again We're saying the n series you can generally find those really easy For not a lot of money on On ebay Anybody get any good black friday deals or cyber monday deals today? I uh One thing I bought was a bunch of composite video cables from retro or for by uh composite video cables for sega 2 pin out From retro frog and uh stone age gamer All right, let's see what these are going for n5 250 I bet this has to shoot this has to have rgb, right? Gosh, I doubt they really would notice there's four available two sold maybe You'd have to modify this if you wanted to add rgb and these are um These are all going to be lower end tubes mind you That's a good thing about the 50 series You're gonna have an opportunity to get generally a better tube a lot of times These are actually going for more usually a little more Some of these will go for less, but those are again farther between than the 50 series It's interesting If you look at the pricing which we just did I mean the 50 series is selling at a better value kind of than the n series if you're considering that Plus i'll be honest with you the 50 series is a completely better built pvm than the n series On the inside the hardware doesn't really even compare the n series is a very basic Let's see if I have anything in my file so I can show you what the inside of an n series looks like um Here we'll come back to this Let me see if I can find what's inside of a n series looks like pvm because that's you're going to tell the difference right away All right. Here's well okay This is a little repair that I did goodness gracious. Who knows how long ago I keep all these files on record We had a broken board down here You could see the broken board Where it was damaged in shipping this 20 n series So I just had to run a trace repair and reflow solder on On the flyback transformer there and look at this. This is the 20 inch Which is going to have the same build But just look at look at all this empty space Okay Now if I go back over here and I pull up the 13 That 51 Q file had had the most I think had the most pictures If I show you the inside of this 1351 q I mean That's not a very good picture. That's too close Let's see. There we go now I have the Again, this is the 51 q Look at this All right, you can see all this hardware. It's got a big full-size board down there There's the power supply on its own of course the neck board, but look at the n series There is no external. Sorry. There is no side power supply It's literally one board down here of the pretty darn basic board One board down here One neck board and that's really it It's like a television to be honest with you The hardware inside is it's not it's not very much And then over here is just so much yet You know the 50 let's go back What's this one selling for? I mean, well, you just saw mine Not much Maybe if I mean even a good one would sell for more but a bunch of them were selling for If you're patient You can find it sometimes. I don't know Yeah Plate fork. It's kind of is It kind of is like a tv chessy inside of a monitor show And then the the bottom frame down here Is plastic This is all plastic back here where the input board is It's it's got tons of plastic in it The bezel I think all that's one piece from what I remember. Yeah, the bezel and the bottom are all one Solid poured plastic piece cast plastic That's it. That's the inside of the 20 in But I think that the 50 series really does pack of a good value as long as you know what you're Oh, yeah, definitely Ronny definitely better picture than Uh the regular tv. Hey koala. Yeah, there's no question about that. I'm just saying on the comparing The 50 series Then I'll go through some other series later on as I you know, I'm gonna keep this Uh series going about value pvms And things like that and each line of pvm we can talk about As we go on do that Okay Oh, I woke up cold. Oh, I gotta do some stretching I get clients ask me to repair certain things and I don't know I I'm not as good at uh Console repair anymore as I used to be because I just don't do it very much I just stick to crt's most of the time right now because it's that's what's been working good for me And I'm the only person that does it full time really But Sure, that's a big issue. All right, so hey, why don't we um Let's see Now what I have it on here is just s video What's up shadow mask? That's what you're looking at right now. It's s video So this is s video Nt that's why it says ntsc at the bottom I'm actually not good. That's that game takes too long for me to sit there and play I definitely could use some calibration settings now the good thing again about the 50 series that Makes it a little bit better than the um Then the Series before it which is the 40 series, which is another one we'll talk about some other time The the good thing about this one is it actually has a sub menu So it's got a full menu built into it that you can adjust And you don't have to get inside of it to make adjustments to the calibration For things most of the time. Okay Hey koala koala. I was I saw your uh tweet about Ordering my goodness. What was it? Holy moly a bunch of misters, right working with kids. That's awesome It's schools and uh homeschool Kids to get them working on that just um more to say I was really cool when I was reading about it It's awesome Anyway, if we just I haven't even looked at let's look at the uh calibration on this We obviously have a warping look at that. Whoo. We have a little warp there So this has got a linearity problem when I when I see that I see a linearity problem No, and I also see where it's just not as sharp. You can't turn up the sharpness Actually, that's one of the good things about using s video. Oh, that's very cool Excellent work. Let's turn that down so you can see a little better Now one of the main reasons we look at this one so much is I want to make sure these colors are pretty even Turn the brightness up It's not it's not showing through there. We go Definitely need some adjustment. There's a bit too much green in the picture You can see that See how there's like too much. There's a little bit. I think there's a little bit too much green in the picture But again, this is also on s video. So what you can do is you know, you can adjust things like phase And maybe that's it phase was turned too far to the right See if I look at this color bar and I start adjusting the phase like watch this I mean that it's gonna Highly affect those color bars And same thing with the chroma Sorry, that was phase again See Look how that chroma just pushes that blue Hey, it's it's the man himself The attorney the attorney with the most Joining us Roger's here 8-bit Esquire. What's up here? Let me add you to give you a All right, there you go, Roger 8-bit Esquire. Congratulations You should be able to pull up with a blue wrench like everybody else. Thanks. I'm being you Do that too Anyway, yeah, congratulations 8-bit. I'll add awesome video. What about that? Man, I don't even know like I was how many uh How many dog on where we there we go How many views is that video up to already? Right You did all that it's it's it just crushed the like the super amazing documentaries on Michael Jackson and pvms Tink 4k is like gold on youtube isn't it? Congratulations. I'm sure everybody here saw it Too bad you already got a wrench Oh goodness So yeah, that was a great video I finally said all the way through it. That's only 20 minutes though. It's about how long my last one was So, yeah Wow 11,000 views 13 oh good 8-bit Esquire, right? Yeah that you spit You know, that's the way youtube will treat you, right? I think that if you go back If I go back on my channel statistics, which is pretty funny if I go back on my channel channel statistics And I look at the the most viewed video I have That's gonna be Let's see It's something I put like the least amount Of effort into Of all like the big videos that I did And then it's and I'm not saying that on yours. You put a ton of obviously Work into that one, but I just meant personally my 200,000 views was on the silly the biggest crts in use and it was me recording with my cell phone It's this video It's me recording with my cell phone how working on these two Mitsubishi's right here These two Mitsubishi's for the museum And a fine arts in houston right there I literally just did this video with no I had nothing else to you know uh Going this guy had two of these things look at this these were in I have you guys all seen this video It's pretty funny. They had uh These two huge S video only um CRTs I've been gigantic 40 inch Mitsubishi's And they were awesome, but they were impossible to get pure You could never get the purity right on them and I mean I'm and this is the most replayed moment, right? Is when I go through I don't understand it. It's weird. It's like maybe I should just make videos of myself CRTs Right like literally what if I just did this? Oh, it's good to see my uh my old uh self there where I had uh I had about 25 pounds of extra chunkiness on myself There it is see and you just like I would make it worse That's hilarious. That's awesome cool Look, this is like I couldn't I mean I don't know this one Now I wish Knowing how good this video see look at there's the curator coming in busting me I literally had to set my cell phone up just on a table To get this footage thankfully it worked didn't have any mic with me Oh, I got a little better there So and there's um, that's pretty much it on them I really wish I'd have gone in and I look there's a cool thing at the end. I really wish I'd have gone in and Done that with so many more CRTs that he had there. I just didn't Didn't have time. I didn't have my GoPro if I go back It'll be different. I'll get a lot more footage because that was obviously a recipe to make some people watch 30 or that's 40 inches That's a little bit big. I couldn't even fit. I can't fit a 36 inch CRT into my house Really the way it's built You have a 35 inch. Yeah, it's Mitsubishi. It's a very nice Both of those TVs are now in a retro video game store in Houston Texas So if you're in Houston, Texas, I can't I wish I could remember as well as a pvm that I restored Like I bought one of them Who owns it cool guy I want to wrestle with him watch wrestling with him and uh The curator an AEW show when I went there and did that video in Houston um That's funny you should say that jake. I had this Funny idea that uh, I saw somebody post in a video viral video about them going to their grandma's house and their grandma watching the cowboys game On a wooden tv and I was like, oh, that was so funny What if I could just go there and see if I could watch a game with the grandma? And then offer us a CRT service Yeah, there you go build the house around the CRT. That's what I should do Let's look at some more stuff on this pattern here and I'll pull up this uh, this This is uh, the key's always like why are you using that older version of the monoscope? And it still has this linearity circles, which I really like to use I still like to use this He's a real dog. Everybody thinks he's so big sometimes. He's really a runt Like he's the runt of them the Lara base. He's a sweet Sweet guy, but he snores like crazy You want to give him a snore You want some snore in asmr Sometimes he'll really snore especially. Oh, there he goes. See he fall asleep in your hands. He's hilarious Sitting up to Good boy Yeah Back to this So this still has this version still has this which I think is later gotten rid of um, I still like this version of the Test suite because of that Of course, it has the monoscope pattern, which is very important This just has like pen amp issues. You could see how it's like Flared out towards the bottom. Let's go to the Go to this one. Yeah, I saw that belemont. That's cool. I don't know if I'm ready for snow, but I don't know if I'm ready for the cold See this this just I mean, it's just a touch of a flare And honestly, I'm not really going to recalibrate this till I do the cap kit What time is it? 12 o'clock. I got some time. Let's open this thing up in a second. Maybe we'll start on restoring some of it I know I bet you do the bellmont because you got to have a break from all that concrete thank goodness They can't really pour much concrete in the winter, you know Although they're probably surprised you right Probably surprised a lot of people how many how much they pour in the winter still All right Like I said before really making any adjustments to this screen. I wanted to test it It's been running for a couple hours now. So it's good So that's all I don't really want to adjust it anymore until Until I service it. Well, let's just open it up now and see what it looks like on the inside Because there's somebody Out there somewhere who wants to see what it looks like And you find folks out there. I know you all would like to see it Can you please do me a favor and hit the like button if you have not already We're into one hour on the show And Let's see I have no idea how many likes are on there So if anybody wants to tell me how many likes we got I see we got about 50 Something people in the chat And in the show. So that's awesome Got myself got coal here We're going to open the crt live And you know sometimes when this happens, this is when my electro boom side happens, right? You might actually see me zap myself today You know, and I know you like seeing that My last video was number one It might hit 10,000 views, which I haven't had enough. I mean, I think I have like one of those About one of those every Six months now. It's so interesting How YouTube's algorithm has changed a lot I guess I just didn't play the ball, right? on some of those things because 55,000 likes. Oh, that would be awesome. Thanks jake 55. I'm guessing 55,000 likes. Yes If there are 55,000 likes That would be something That's a good amount. Let's keep it smashed it. Follow me folks if you can Let's get it to 55,000. That's our goal 55,000. I don't think I've had 55 I don't know 55,000 likes on all my videos combined So this is an interesting question. I was thinking about this, uh, maybe it's got to do with the fascination I have with electricity Or maybe it's just something that's wrong with me inside. I don't know. You guys can decide as you listen All right, I Um I don't know why but when I was like a kid I would go And there's a lot of farms Where I grew up and this would have been early life So pre you know pre Teenage years. This would have been early grade schools Things like that. I used to go out to farms and grab Sounds stupid. I used to grab the electric fences sometimes Because they say oh, it's gonna zap you and I was like come on really And just to see what it would feel like and some of them were zapped. You're worse than others And I don't know what my fascination was with feeling the zap. How psycho is that though? Literally to anybody else have any desire to go grab the Electric fence that was it's not like the Jurassic Park fence. Okay, folks. This is just meant to scare tiny livestock from Just zap them. It doesn't hurt them. Okay It doesn't seriously hurt them It's just It's a preventative measure But see I also used to get the threat of I used to back talk a lot I used to back talk a lot, you know, I was a pretty good smart ass as a kid And hey my mom she's a boomer. She was she was pretty old-fashioned She would uh She would she would this is actually a good timing right in in christmas story that movie You know Ralph he has to has to eat soap after he says the f word So that's what my family would do is they would make me eat soap Or they would stick a bar of soap in my mouth for saying bad stuff and talking back I got to the point where it didn't bother me The soap didn't bother me. I literally would just Like I would again go on these stupid trips with kids and go to camp And I would be like hey, uh, I dare you Thanks 8-bit Go back to work. I'll see you. See you soon. We'll be getting together. Yeah, we got a big special, uh live stream coming up over on 8 bits channel Coming soon folks charity get ready December sometime early december. What is it the 8th? I think I think our schedule said I don't know 8th or 9th. I'm sorry. I can't remember off the top of my head I think it's 8th. Let's see Yeah Special stream there you go first announcement special stream not over here over on 8 bits channel Uh special stream 9 p.m. Eastern probably probably I don't know I'm not making any promises. This isn't my stream This is he can deal with the blowback Anyway, we got it open. What was I even talking about? Oh, uh Eatin soap Of course, right boy. What weirdo wouldn't be talking about eating soap So yeah, I would go on these trips with kids and I would be like, hey, uh, you guys dare me to eat some soap You guys dare me to grab that electric fence Give me a dollar and I'll do it Right real brilliant. Anyway, that's just a little A little bit of insider knowledge there for you Man my ah my my desk camera is like glitching to all All poop over here. It is just a glitching mess right now. I can tell This is the back of the crt. Let me get a little more light. I hope it doesn't glitch out any on me Let's see All right, we're good We're live folks So yeah, I mean that that survived shipping surprisingly well. There's not a an ounce of damage in here I don't see any evidence in here that that Anyone has ever been inside this CRT since it was manufactured in 1994 It was sold to me again from a recycler So that recycler would not have been the original user on it. There was no inventory tag or anything like that on it and Very clean dust relatively dust free What is the word that's cooked? I'm sure it's hot. Let's see There we go Let's see a little better Crooked. Yeah. Oh, oh, yeah, that happens a lot. See That's not that's that's just the way all this wound up being you see how that's crooked It's not actually anything that's bent It's just the way it wound up being put together. Let's take that off This thing never survives There's a plastic ring back here wiggle wiggle Oh wiggle wiggle wiggle. There we go. Disconnection Disconnection there we go. We're disconnecting everything. Okay Seaboard has been removed If we look here Now the tube's not really got any bent pins or anything it is. Well Maybe it does kind of look bent Bent up though, which is weird There you have it neckboard This is neckboard from And actually you could see this this ring that partially survived Right. It's plastic It's meant to stabilize and hold but generally this breaks. You can see it's already It's already broken on one of these legs. I believe. Oh, yeah Well, maybe not I thought it was Anyway, it'll be broken before I get done with it. I'm sure So the good thing is when you look at this neckboard Um, we're good. Let's go ahead and service it. We only got two capacitors here We'll pull them. Let's test them and uh Do that. So there that's what we'll do. We'll first That's gonna be it for the uh This part of the pvm for a second Okay, there we go. So we're gonna go ahead and oh, I don't think I can service it with that Let's go ahead. I'm gonna get some stuff set up here folks So don't don't mind that camera view right there. I'm gonna get that all situated for you We're gonna move this guy now I think I can do all this Should be able to do all this There we go We're getting back to some servicing. I don't know how many times we've done this Doesn't matter We're gonna do now Let's get this all ready for all of you put the focus back on there. There we go And there we have it I could do so well, I guess I do technically service it with this nest controller, right? So there's some plastic here. We're gonna take this stuff off. Let me uh Back you out a little Switch you over to the desktop view. Look at that How amazing folks How lovely is this we're gonna go right into taking this apart? I'm gonna try to save this plastic a lot of times this again just falls apart because it's So old this is just a Plastic piece that goes over our horizontal static convergence adjustment Potentiometer H stat for short. I say that five times fast without Making yourself dizzy Uh, I'm just gonna run through here and inspect some stuff Now it's Not anticipating seeing anything that's that bad on this side of the board This side of the board looks pretty good pretty standard Flip it over. No, if I can get this out without breaking this thing It's probably gonna be a miracle if that happens And I don't really like these anyway I might actually be able to save this one. I doubt it. It always breaks on me Oh, look at that. Maybe I saved it. Holy moly. That only happens on live tv folks Normally this thing was shattered into a thousand pieces. So there you go instant relic right there instant pointless relic You're freshly made Tube stabilizer or what would that be called? I guess neck board stabilizer holder Looks like a pretty weird like I don't even want to go there Oh, my goodness. This is a this is meant to be a daytime television show folks. Sorry seaboard So We have a 250 volt by 4.7 Micro farid capacitor here and this one should be like 16100. Yep. That's what we got right there If you look on the back Okay This is a big area of concern on most of these CRTs at this point And I'll try to let this guy focus in on it. Maybe you can get a little bit better That's going to be these points right here On the the CRT socket Uh, these get very hot and the solder I mean, it's still fine right now, but it's starting to develop a ring around Some of these points and eventually that stuff will break down and you'll you'll have trouble So to prevent that we're going to get some fresh solder on there Okay Do that and then we'll replace those capacitors I don't even think I'm going to need to pull out my uh pull out my gun I don't think I'm going to need to pull out my gun for this one. I think I can get those I think I can get those caps off there with solder braid. Maybe Shouldn't be an issue Hey, Jake Jake, there is a we do have a crt discord at retro tech But uh, that's limited you got to get in on at least the one dollar contribution Of the patreon to get in So there is a small paywall But that's where I don't know about modding if you want to look more into modding Actually, I do have some information coming on that soon, but that's not Um A ready today, it's not ready just yet Let's remove this capacitor over here if we can Want to get closer? Thanks Belmont Do-do-do My iron is on and it's at 650 degrees Fahrenheit And just watch as I Slide that over top See how all that That solder is just gone And now That leg is nice and loose Oops, sorry about that Let me see if I'm just trying to get as close as I possibly can without like zooming in And turn that light out see if that makes anything else this might be harder to see Without the light actually What if I go down a little bit? I'm sorry about that glare Right there Let's try over here Same thing This is the good solder wick, right? Watch that solder flow up into that wick There you go Wiggle wiggle wiggle see how we wiggle in those See how we wiggle those right there? Look at that Let me pull it out. This is actually the other one. So this is 705 And since I have this memorized, I'm not gonna worry about writing down these caps. Well, we're gonna test this cap though Yep. Hey We gotta test that cap. So that's that's really it I know like it seems intimidating right to use solder wick and I you saw it. I didn't really do anything that crazy There it is. There's all the solder This wick has tons. It's it's completely saturated with Uh rosin, okay This is only five feet. I'm afraid I'm running low I still get some in there From chemtronics, okay There's the size number four eighty Four dash five and this has been the one of my better ones that I've actually been able to Use I've had some really bad stuff too that that's very ineffective But look at that Kind of nice that trace came out No need for disordering tool on that one now. You can't get away with this on the uh, the main a board Because there's just it's a double-sided board with components on each side That the the discord's great for things like repairs and uh, yeah, there's there's like over 600 people in there Uh, you know that they're talking about crts. It's a crt based mostly discord server It's that's pretty much selling repair. I mean, there's off-topic stuff Everything's pretty much CRT related though like a That's the mains research point. I also published all my cap kits there I don't know and I'm mean there's probably like 50 cap kits in there and then uh I have like listings for what tools I use everything I use in there Let's get this other cap out of here and then we're going to test these caps and see what kind of condition they're in So that did really well. You could almost see That solder just gets sucked right up into that Like a sponge like you had heat activated sponge right down here To get rid of that and there we go. Let's see if that broke free on both legs. I think this one still has Not this leg this this one over here still has a little bit more solder left on it Let's see if we can't get that to Just melt right on there. I will add some more if I need to Wow, so I do need to add a little solder It's okay though because this is just going to be a piece of cake washes Heat that up Move that around a little bit Get everything loosened And we just pop it right out like that, right Straighten out that resistor And this is the 250 volt 4.7 micro farad It's an 85 degree capacitor. Let's see what this one is probably a 85 degree capacitor So we're going to go up In quality because we're going to go up to 105 degree capacitor longer life And I will increase this one to a 25 volt Will not change the voltage or rating on this one, but it will be a smaller capacitor Going in here now we can test these things with a tool Here look at this while I get this tool Ready And then Hey race These scruffy looking rgb welcome in Definitely does okay. We're going to test this with what I've got here is a a tester okay the called the gme In circuit esr capacitor tester now we could test these capacitors in circuit if we want with this tool But we don't we don't have to because they're out of circuit So we can get even better reading out of circuit with them Well, you see there Okay, this is good. So you see my reading right here in red Whoops man it went away. I'm at point zero eight or point eight point eight point nine Oh now it's moving up. All right. If you look over here on my index This is A 100 micro farad capacitor right here so that Right here is reading in this area 100 It's right up in here in this yellow And that means it's sus. Okay If it's green it's good, but yellow sus reds bad All right, so we're sussy We're a sussy cap right see that I guess right sometimes it it might be a high esr too, but this is an older cap. So that sounds pretty that's pretty good That seems pretty much right. It's still working of course, but it's not It's not as effective as hopefully a new one. Let's get a reading on uh, the second capacitor. This is 4.7 Okay, so it's down here lower on the scale so it can go up higher over here I'm gonna guess this one's probably still really good Oh, that's good. I mean, it's it's technically still good But look here. It's all the way up here. It's getting right next to the suspect All right, see that Right here. Well, it's only right here So that's that's these these have done their job They're ready to go though. Okay We don't want to put these back in there. Let's let's take a look at some fresh capacitors and what they may read Have them right here Here's a 25 volt replacement For that one 25 volt 100 The other one is 254.7 51 254.7 there we go Check these out. Let's see. So we saw let's start with the 4.7 The suspect one or the one we were at was right here Okay, and I'm gonna go black to negative red to positive on the leads of this I think I didn't mention that. Oh goodness gracious. This one's reading all the way up there and it's brand new Well, not as high. Hang on. Sorry 2.0 So yeah, that's reading right under gosh So these these caps just run higher on the ohms meters If you want to get into the yep, if you just want to get into the patreon just there's a link to it in every video I have Yeah, you can still use the uh this while they're in circuit and I should have taken that test Yeah, you can follow that link to the bellman just posted But I should have tested these in circuit to show you the difference And if we work on another board, we'll do that Before we pull them. Let's see what this one reads at. So that's good. Whoops All right, this one is the 100 micro farad we're at 0.4 Which is green. I mean again, we're right up here In this area, but that's our other one was right in this area Okay, so you can see there they have worn some But they were working that makes sense That's why we're two replacement parts We'll go ahead and install them on the board here. Oh, yes, we got to go positive long leg is positive All right This is a nishikon 105 degree Yep, see that 105 degrees Celsius So this cap well in this application should last 20 years in a normal And you know use environment. So there's that one And then over here is a Worth capacitor 25 volt 100. So it's an increase in Voltage, which is perfectly fine And I know all these are 105 degree that I ordered. I just don't think it says it on the outside anywhere But I never order one of those that would be anything less than 105 degrees There we go Bend those legs off You know, you can get as many tools as you want as they're helpful They're helpful just If you if you're suspicious something's not working Let's just get in here and we'll take tack these in Then we'll come back and clean these welds up In a second this little friendly little solder down in here keeping that iron at 650 degrees Fahrenheit folks and we're just tacking these lovely little capacitor legs into place Just gonna tack it just like that Just like that There we go We'll come back And we'll trim these trim these puppies trim these little legs up To appropriate sizes Just like that. Then we'll come back touch that solder up just a little just give a little touch That's what I like to do A little touch right there. Give a little touch just like that And that's pretty much it for your I mean look at that. That's all you got to do for the cap replacement It's just that on just this one board Again, you know, you want to clean it Check your work make sure everything's good There you go. What do you think? There you go Ain't that sexy Let's add some color to our lives with a burgundy And red and that's a same color family. I guess and that really All right Now the next step is to go in here and reflow solder on this entire board everything All the points you see except for one or two things. I'll tell you you don't need to worry about the test points okay There's some test points in here. You don't need to really worry about those you don't need to worry about This these things that are holding in your cable ties because that will fall out You don't need to worry about resoldering that that's not a big deal You don't need to worry about resoldering the dead spots. What do I call a dead spot? Well, it's a spot where there might not be a component example right here These two points right there. Those are dead spots. There's really nothing there. It's a redesign or it's in the component was no longer needed So that's one thing you don't need to worry about just anything that has a component in it Really does need Some fresh solder See how that solder reacts If it doesn't react good, you may have to remove all the old solder Ooh pop snap crackle pop Goodness, I wish I could get rid of that glare right there I'm afraid. Oh, there we go. Maybe if I can get away To hold up this neck board like so like that's better. I think So we will um You don't want all I'm gonna blow that smoke at you instead of one in my face You don't want to hold the iron too much on your points because of obviously you're introducing heat again But especially down in this area where you have plastic on the other side that neck socket Or crt socket is plastic So you could Actually melt some of that plastic if you kept your Iron too hot And you kept it on These points too long. I swear that smoke's going in your face not mine Smoke on the water And fire in the skies Sorry I haven't been able to pay attention to the chat too much last little bit But what you see here is I mean this could save so much trouble, right? I said, well, what are you doing? This is all preventative We don't want to have an issue happen later and try to troubleshoot it I want to make this last as long as possible For whoever ends up Owning this in the long run That's the entire crt socket That's it Now I'll also do other things. I don't so much like hitting up this H stat Not this area too much. I mean you can just touch it just like that because again, there's so much plastic in here You don't want to melt anything So we don't want to hit that Too hard There's a couple of points over here Just gonna tap it. Just give it a little love tap. There we go It's really the way you know, I don't want to have problems, right? I mean the thing is is I I have plenty of things that I've said. Oh, it works perfectly And then I've gone and set it on a shelf for a year or two and you come back and then something doesn't work And it's just worn out things have worn out Capacitors wear out It's like a gradual problem too where it just normally happens or again, you'll have a cold solder joint develop happens all the time Potentiometers will fail They'll they'll go bad. Heck other components will fail Diodes resistors even fail sometimes systematically I'm going through here and reflow and solder on these Points of interest So this is another piece right here. This is a connection point that uh, that's all this is a connection harness with Plastics so again, I don't want to hold My iron on there For an extended period of time. I just want to get that solder molten And molten enough to do the job And if it's lousy quality solder if it's lead free solder that you're dealing with or Just really bad solder in general. You may as I said earlier have to Go in and actually remove that solder and replace it all together That's not unheard of The solder solid like this is Good quality just needs freshening up. It's not really I know some people, you know It's not the Same as if you chemically removed it all and added just the same solder because it is actually chemically a little bit different But it's a whole heck of a lot better than just leaving it to time in your cold snoring. I don't know if you can He's definitely sleeping again something about Something about soldering just makes that dog want to sleep Or maybe it's just the fact that he's a dog Maybe it's just the fact that he's a silly dog All right, we've made it We're gonna hear if I've done that one. I think so it looks like it like this Hit that spot at this one We're really getting it now. It's pretty much everything. We got this connection down here. This is just a ground cable for the ground loops Like a what that cool Check out that ground plate just a ginormous ground plate here I think I just broke my own ruling Soldered a dead spot there This one was in good condition for the price I paid. I mean I guess you probably could I didn't have any issues with it at all You may have been able to get away without doing this for a while, but it really doesn't matter I don't know how many how much can you expect from a machine? That's these the age of these this is 30 years old It needs it needs some love You know, that's pretty impressive pretty impressive that These devices will work after 30 plus years right Let's see what Cole's got going on still sleeping Still sleeping. All right folks need to uh I got some message here. Let's see make sure it's not something important Oh, okay cool That was U ship driver telling me he's going to drop off a Sony pvm 20 l5. I believe for servicing this evening That was who was blowing up my phone as you sit here live U ship driver I knew that guy would come tonight. So ridiculous. What if I wouldn't have made it back now when you do this You get just make sure you don't bridge anything, but if you do don't worry about it Just clean it up if you do After I do all this I'm going to clean this board very thoroughly Unless I'm out of alcohol, which I know I'm not out of drinking alcohol. I'm out of rubbing alcohol The great thing about U ship is they do um They do do a very good job of communication most of the time these truck drivers do these small business people Do a great job of you know communicating with you person receiving it now this is not one this is a Right this is being sent in so the customer actually arranged for the U ship on their end And then I'm the recipient and then I'll I'll send it back using U ship to the customer Right So that's if you're still coming in here and you see this. What's the best bargain monitor? Well, I mean we've had a very good conversation early on if you want to go back and watch that About the 50 series and what it's really worth and why you know it just seems like right now There's been quite a few bargains of the 50 series And that can change but at the same time it's always going to be a great bargain great starting pvm It's not going to break your bank Honestly, if you can get one of these for $300 You should be happy And then get it serviced It's a very good deal And even more than that it's I mean, it's definitely worth more than that. I'm just saying Exceptional deals can be found still in this This line of pvms And it offers quite a bit Oh, that dog is really snorting now. I'm sure somebody can hear Oh Now these are the test points. I don't care. I'm just I guess I'll just go ahead and The jumpers pretty much she can Clip to oh, that's a good one You don't have to worry so much about Yeah, there's no plastic in these parts really Then you don't have to be as concerned as I was with the Neck socket Well, I mean, I don't know Conway you could do that too, but it's not I think those are good deals too the It just depends also what you want really what you're looking for because A 13 inch there's not many 13 inch High high res or you know cool or there are some cool ones, but there's not that many computer monitors You know that are around that other than like the Commodore stuff So if you need like a size If you have a size constraint Plus you have to get something to interface with it If you're just want to go straight You go from mister of course straight into the PCC RT Going cheap actually cheaper would be probably raspberry pi or something That's another connection point here. That's a plastic and So you want to limit the amount of heat you put there until that's that's the area I've been reflowing This is the area over here that has not been reflown reflowed Thankfully this dog sleeps with my son most nights Because man he can snore Even more than the bulldogs good There it is. Oh my bird so So impressive snore So they're just put a microphone on him We've become just a soldering and snoring ASMR channel everybody This is the announcement. Where's your snore? That's it. Sorry and that was a good one Good old snore If you like snoring or if you snore yourself Please do me a favor and hit that like button So the snores of the world can unite And snore in one unison Snore to the rooftops that the crts are Maybe obsolete They may be obsolete But that's okay. We still love them Whoa, that's a monster snore there Cole Been a real fun show. I mean, I'm glad I get to back to work I'm gonna try to make a video this week. It might be next week. I don't know Kind of like the momentum of the last one. I really want to talk more about kai tours a new Item in his shop the 1405 bracket That's awesome, and I want to do a video on that and that's why I'm glad that 2005 is here Cole That's good Hangi or hangia. Yeah, that's that's a good assessment. He does sound like a De-soldering gun. I think he woke himself up First split second there. I was gonna you all right Cole. Yeah, I see So I can't run my Hakko fan So I'm trying to blow all this Uh rosin fumes away from the My area If I turn that fan on you'll never get to hear the Amazing sounds of Cole snoring All right, everything is looking wonderful over here. We've gotten all the way over to this side. I know it seems like it's been 30 minutes and that's because it has been But that's okay. It's kind of quality wasn't built overnight It took countless engineers millions of hours to get to the point where There was an amazing crt like this one So we can take our time To make sure we finish up this. Let me take a little longer Oh, yeah Oh, yeah It was kind of funny when I was at the when I was at the esp in game day in Harrisonburg Down here jmu. They had the Jonas the Jonas brothers singing a concert And uh, I was like, man, I don't even know a Jonas Brothers song, but They were there They were there singing away Something how old are the Jonas Brothers? Right. Anyway, they were in town They actually went to a bar like a Dive bar around here and we're serving Serving drinks to people on Saturday night And it's such a tiny bar. They went to in town That you can't like you can't fit more than 40 people inside of it. So I imagine it was insanity when People were posting pictures of them On line being down there See like in my day, it would have been I don't know in sync There's that like Backstreet boys and dating me how old I am. I don't even know what they the modern equivalently equivalency of that would be Or that's what I would what I would think we are almost done We survived That's every one of those points All right, turn my iron off Kohl's awake wants to see what happened I didn't know who would be more insulted backstreet's Guess they've stood the test of time In sync with the jones brothers Now I need to get some rubbing alcohol And we'll clean up this board All right, we're gonna clean this board and then hopefully it'll work If you think it'll work smash the like button We're hitting schmosh the like button, right? Look at this. I'm gonna get some Lovely cleaning action. Now this board would be great to clean with a ultrasonic cleaner. How cool would that be? Just throw this down in there Maybe I should get one of those before new year's is over If I have any budget left over that would be a fun item Could save a little time cleaning these The problem is is you can't fit the big boards Let's see how you can fit the big boards in there. I guess you could if you Stuck at half a board of time in maybe So how much solder is coming off that? Look at that. Let me show you See how that yellows up Thanks, Daniel. Thank you for coming hanging out Chatting it's always fun being here Everybody man, this is Just so dirty. I'll also come through here and After I do this, I'll come through here with a little brush Really brush in between all these component components and on the board With an esd brush to clean it some more There's definitely a leftover layer of solder on it From sony in the factory You gotta squeak in my table. I'm not sure what it's from. It's driving me crazy We're gonna see if this all worked out fine. I don't think I need to use another one just yet We're gonna I'm gonna go get a beach towel here in a second. Just rub it on the back of here after we're gonna Get real technical here and just use a beach towel No, they don't shed like q-tips. There's their actually printer cleaning q-tips It's like printer ink cleaning q-tips So they don't shed or shred at all. They're actually perfect for the job. They're big They are big and they do the they do the job so just Hit that up with a little more alkie haul And scrubber dub dub Put this towel over top of that kind of Do that a little bit Looks pretty good Turn it sideways Turn that soma gun sideways Stick it straight up You're sorry. That's like the sun cold steve austin speech i was working on Oh, yeah, that's a very good job belmont. That's a good technique, too It's probably better than my technique actually So i'm just taking another brush here that's Giving it another spit shine. I guess you could say right. Let me back up a little bit Thankfully there's nothing really to worry about knocking off on the back side here So you don't have to worry about being too aggressive But that's it. That's the cleaned board now. That's pretty much it don't Now the other side Isn't really dirty But you can just Kind of do that with it And what i need to do is blow all this mess off Thanks belmont Thank you guys Those look pretty clean didn't it Now sometimes I like to put this in my Under my fan for a little while which i'm going to go do in a second I have a high powered fan in the next room and I just let it blow on it for a couple minutes Just to evaporate everything off the board And it's not in this room because it would make too much noise may hear it still We'll do that for a second and then uh Let's get this guy ready Let's get this guy ready for a test run obviously i'm going to flip the camera back around Let's work on that Okay, perfect and we're going to just stick That neck board right back in here and test it Which I don't really have any reason to think it won't work again, but you never know There you go And while i'm doing that letting that droop board dry up and only take about another 30 seconds for that Board to get finished Clean up some things Get some things out of the way and hopefully we'll We'll have a good working CRT here after this Right Now that's just one of the most important steps is servicing a board like that Thanks. Yeah, yo, it's Trust me Look if you guys ever have an issue Where you work on something and improve and you end up with a problem after trying to fix it It's much harder when you work on multiple boards at the same time Um because you don't then you're then you're looking at every board now if I have an issue there's a almost 99 percent chance that it's from the uh Neck board itself All right, it should be right ready dried up everything nice little Brush off here with the Old paintbrush Nice old horse hair paintbrush You always want to check it too to make sure that you know, none of your None of your stuff is like your resistors. I get some long legs sometimes you don't make sure they're not Shorting out against any part next to the Next to them Let's do this So that's the front side Where seaboard looks pretty good back side So there's lovely fresh solder. Oh just kind of shines We're not really going to be having to worry about Any problems Basically because of that work we just did And I know it's like it you know, it looks like a lot of work But at the end of the day What it was it it took us about an hour to do that well Yeah Right, we got into this thing about an hour ago So that process is about an hour. I'd say that's pretty close to average Sometimes you get into more complex boards But let's just see let's hope that uh again everything's good Because that's the most important thing Would work these two points the ground and then Mainboard my voltage board controls up here Colors and everything coming in There That's everything make sure everything else is good Okay, let me make sure it's not powered on and it's not All right There we go Here we go. Come on Come on. What's your bet? I'm sure it's gonna work, right? Give me a like if you think it's gonna work Hahaha You guys are killing me you should join to that healthy All right Plastic pieces that are not needed Go in the plastic collection There for the retro tech library. Let's see Everything sounds normal switch over to desk camera And Wallah There we go We have picture There we go I never had a doubt That's really a whole Whoa Whole way to restore that Board right the other passive components on that board Are not going to wear out the same As Are not going to wear out at the same As a capacitor would if that'll even show up sometimes these uh Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody your encouragement has helped me get through it You sometimes you got to have people just there to encourage what you're doing Help you out. I realized that there's a lot of people who talk to me And ask About stuff and a lot of times it's really just the fact that I can Sit there and offer them some encouragement on the process that they're working on There we go And hopefully together Make it through this Crazy situation. All right. Look at that It's funny. I need to definitely do the old. Oh, um, I can't play it from that view Anyway We are good I can't play from that view Excellent So that's board one now what I would do after this is I would Go in normally and restore the power supply next Generally speaking after I did that one That's what I'd move on to normally That would be the power supply But I don't have time to do that right now Hi There we go. That's better But if you want to go back and check out everything we've done with this one so far That's a cool little look at the pvm today. We went through all the differences in the fifth 50 series Oh, yeah, the jvc cards. Yeah, ruben. There's somebody on there that does a good job It's yeah in australia Let's see if we can find it. I'm not uh, it's been so many years ago since I got that I can't imagine anybody else making them But they are open source, I believe I think it's the best still. Let's see tmh card Retro upgrades makes one But anybody who makes these this is from the united kingdom. That's what they do a good job to I would just not worry about buying the original but a heck. Oh, those are sold. Sorry. I was looking at sold We have four sale not sold Yeah retro upgrades. I see retro upgrades here in the united states Having them for sale from the uk. They'll do fine. He does a good job too Jams is the one in australia. I haven't seen If you find his listings, those are good. Also, he's the one who originally came up with that That's cool. Yeah I'm glad. I'm glad you guys had a good time. I had a good time doing it too It's good to get back in the swing of things a little bit I'll definitely be back later on this week thursday probably like normally expecting And i'm not sure what we'll have Because I got quite a few things to do Uh, we could continue on with this restoration or I may be able to bring some more Highlights of a different monitor Kind of that is uh On that budget friendly side. I think I have a few more of those You have a few more ideas a few more things to talk about with you guys on that front That's it. That's it jams. Yeah, I've got so a bunch of his stuff here and it's all been good Everything's been good on those And if you're talented enough, I think you could probably make your own Hmm Cole's still down there snoring for everybody One less snore from him Yeah, two hours Got a two-hour stream in pin amp issues How do I clear him up? I will well I need to do I need to do the Mainboard and power supply restorations then I'll adjust it because honestly if one of those All it would take is like one or two those Deflection capacitors to just be out of spec enough That my adjustment could be I'll have to readjust afterwards and it's kind of a waste of time to do it Till after that. So what I would go in there and do is I would get into the sub menu Of this by pressing menu And digows and enter And then Well, and then I'd go up here. I'd go over to like pin phase and pin amp And I adjust these up and down till I got that to look better It probably needs a bunch more of adjustments like that all right Like there's a bunch of things and then I would hit digows To enter and write it hit it one more time save your info Then press that Input button again. You get right out of the menu And there you go. That's how you like save settings and change them and stuff. That's a real quick look at that But I have to do before I do that. I really need to get in there and and do those other restorations to the other two boards because It wouldn't be it wouldn't be really beneficial. I've done that before To ones and it was a complete waste of time the monitor looked so bad after I changed the caps That it took me longer to recalibrate it after because I changed so much to begin with just trying to make it look good with bad caps so That's it. Thank you guys. Thank you guys and girls everybody Who is out there with us today? I appreciate your time. I really do Really enjoyed this if you want to go back and check out anything from our discussions to Of our discussion on which pvms are the best, you know to start with I think the 50 series again is a great Uh a great bargain pvm most of the time and it's a very good crt. It's great In performance wise analog and does a lot of good things some of them do more than others So if you need more information on that, please check that out if you do want to go help out the channel Please definitely consider jumping on the patreon. I appreciate everybody who already is on the patreon I know a lot of you guys already are But that's a way you can get in and you can actually buy pvms crts Not really for me so much anymore the whole community There's an entire community over there on discord And those people sell and try to help other people out getting their first crts, but also I share mostly um on my patreon I also do try to share a lot of these crts like this one that I find on ebay that i'm not going to buy Uh just to help other people find theirs that I think that kind of vet a little bit And I said this looks like a good idea So anyway, I really appreciate anybody who's on there. I know a lot of you guys are and uh, I again, thank you for your time today I will see everybody next Bunker visit, which should be thursday And it'll be about noon thursday, so you guys have a wonderful Uh a couple days till then and I will see you on thursday. Thanks again everybody for jumping in here