 So, you know most of the time when you order stuff off eBay like a CRT Or a really expensive CRT like a professional video monitor you're gonna Be lucky if it doesn't get just absolutely demolished or destroyed in shipping But you know not every time it's like that a lot of times it is but not every single time I sometimes you actually have a pretty darn good experience. So today. I want to show you one of the better Experiences I've had in such a long time with buy-in a Sony PVM now This one I'm gonna show you is actually going into my personal collection So I'm gonna give you a real treat today and show you kind of the economics and everything behind this specific Purchase I made again on eBay Here is the package that it came in this lovely fragile box with the straps tightened on it and This one was a 14 L 5 and so it's a multi-format monitor And it was shipped by FedEx and guys this one was packed and shipped first off Let me show you this listing real quickly This was the listing rare rack mounted monitor 14 L 5 now. They were originally asking Right at $600 for it, but if you saw the pictures on it, you could tell it wasn't in perfect shape it had Some scratches and dings on the actual screen itself Which I'll show you in a minute, and then it was some other things about it, but it did list it is working So I sent an offer to this seller and I said look I know I'm not trying to low ball you this is I was I said I'm not trying to low ball you I've restored these all the time and this one probably needs a new tube And I'll be glad to pay you $355 plus $40 shipping or $39 shipping So I paid a total of $393.38. Okay, and This was no joke shipped to me ground shipping from Indiana Down to Tennessee in like 20 hours time. It took FedEx 20 hours for ground shipment on this to get it from Indiana to my house not even a full day Because I was in contact with the seller and the seller did a pretty good job with packing now. It wasn't you know packed to the tee or Extreme that I usually do but it was using a lot of the great foam that I had just been talking about in that last packing video In depth lots of it in between the bottom tops and all the sides So that was always reassuring now I'll show you here how he had it wrapped in the foam a lot of cellophane Was perfectly fine some tape very little bubble wrap which if it were me I would have wrapped it in some more bubble now so they did interesting on the face of the monitor Which I had never seen before was he had two pieces of foam and a piece of plywood plywood like quarter-inch thick Sitting on the screen in between a sandwich between two pieces of styrofoam on there So maybe was worried something would hit it and go through it, but I just this interesting idea I'm not not seeing anybody do that before So again, here it is you could tell it's got scuffed up bezel and But everything else on it seemed to arrive perfectly the rest of the shell is in Magnificent shape and like I said, this is what I wanted to get in my personal collection because I like 14 inch monitors Especially the multi-formats and this is the last one that I don't have I've got the a series and the D series and now this is the L series that are in again that 14 inch format That I've been looking for so thankfully, you know, we've got a good screen here runs and tests well and Just put myself a little bit out of the way a little bit more and show you How you know good it looks but Just a fantastic deal and I was having a conversation with somebody earlier today, you know I don't know. I think that a restored version of this could easily fetch $800 $900 we're shipping something like that if it's in really good shape now I wanted to before I even replace the tube because the tube is very bright and has a lot of good color in it No burn, but it does have all these awful scuffs and scratches all over it Here's a closer look at this Scratch up here at the top of the screen and then a lot of hairline scratches all over it for the most part and As we continue down There's a big scuff here in the middle some more scuffs here towards this side So just a really good example of a lot a lot a lot of screen scuffs and then there was this strange like etching Almost burned into the bezel too that might need to be sanded or something eventually but it It was left over from some kind of residue that was put onto this Bezzle and that actually has leached over and left this funky look on the front of this bezel and then it actually got some kind of Film on the screen layer. So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna remove this bezel Since it's one of the easier ones to remove and then we're gonna take a look at this See if this tube still has the protective anti glare layer Because if it does it's it's got to go And hopefully it is protecting the screen underneath all those scratches So this bezel is about the same as the 20l5 But it was actually a little bit tougher the cables the way it was set up I couldn't pull it all the way out easily, but I could see down here where there's a line right there And that's where the anti-glare layer is And so I have about two or three inches of clearance Between the bezel and the screen covering so I'm going to get in here and pull this Screen barrier off Okay, and that's just gonna start with an exacto knife in the top corner Make sure you don't scrape against the tube itself but just kind of open up a spot where you can get your hand in there and fold it over and This literally took me probably three or four minutes of just slowly pulling Thankfully, it's very durable so doesn't rip and usually you can get it off there without having much glue at all or adhesive left over But this one Thankfully even with the bezel still on there easily came off and I was able to get it out of there That little bit of smudge there was left over glue, but we'll take a quick closer look here at this bezel guard or anti-glare layer and it's just everything all the scuffs that even had this weird again black residue along the sides of it and It's not going to be savable, but it's still interesting to look at and see now if your bezel is in good shape And I mean your tube is in good shape and you have this screen protector still in place You don't want to use a glass cleaner like this on it It can actually cause bubbles in it, but now that there is no screen protector in place you can use this kind of glass cleaner directly against the glass of this tube like you could any other glass and I don't like to use a bounty sheet here at the end to cut a rub and Get all the fine dirt Fragments of glue and everything off the tube itself. So again, you can use those other solvent cleaners once you have that Anti-glare layer gone and if you don't you want to just take extra caution and not really use too much of any kind of cleaner So that's pretty much it. Thankfully. I was able to get that helpful scuffed up glare layer out, but there is something to say about this bezel I'm not sure whether I can sand down. This is actually almost like a chemical burn from either the glue or whatever adhesive was used um near the monitor at some point because it it You know if you if you remember the listing for the monitor it had the rack mounts and I told the guy I bought it from I said one thing that you can do is save some money by ripping those racks mounts off the side and not shipping them to me so he did that and saved the money, but I Was thinking they must have been somebody must have glued those rack mounts on the side of here But here we go. We have it set up and now I'm going to just play some Great footage for you now here before I get completely drowned it out by this audio The rest of the video is going to be some lovely 240p on this monitor using my new C MvS consoleized MvS Neo Geo machine, which is very nice. So again enjoy this video and remember not every You know sometimes you could get a good deal on eBay like this time and some but it just takes a chance and honestly, you can't keep your expectations too high because There are a lot of bad eBay sellers and that's going to lead into our next episode, which I'm very happy to announce that we will be having a An episode of retro tech's Market watch will get into some more details on sales and some recent activity in The CRT market, but for the rest of today's video, please enjoy this and I'll see you guys next time with some more retro content