 Hello everyone, welcome back to Retro Tech. I get a special treat today. A lot of people ask me You know, how do you get so many electronics For cheap or how do you find even PVMs locally? Because I rarely buy PVMs out of the area unless I really need one and then have it shipped to me unless it's a specific monitor So most of the time I have to put out feelers And this was a feel I put out a few months ago I had a friend of mine who has family that used to do video production back in the 90s and 80s a small business someone was running basically out of their house and This family member passed away recently and all his stuff went through kind of being passed down through the family and business associates, but in the Massive pass down of things we've got he my friend called me to me He's got four 20 inch sony PVMs Waiting for him at his house So he called me didn't know what to do with them. I'm gonna go over there and take a look at him And we're going to pick them up. We're gonna eventually service them all but today I just wanted to show you that's how I'm getting a lot of this stuff Okay, it's from putting out feelers with either individuals or because you never know who's gonna eventually calling you back It's only they got a great CRT for you. So today we're gonna go look at that. I'm gonna take you on the road We're gonna do some hunting that way. I'll show you the monitors when I get there. We'll see what they are I have a feeling they might be something really good there from what the guy was telling me on the phone I'm really excited So let's do this and in many some other videos I'll tell you other ways and other feelers I put out there other kind of businesses that I talked to About getting this equipment. Let's go ahead and go on out there I'm going to take everything on the road with me And if you have any questions or comments after this video, please leave them below and hit a like button If you like this and we'll keep trying to do this stuff in the future, but let's go ahead and just check it out Well, hey guys, it's steve back here I'm actually on the site where I'm going to look at these monitors, but I don't know if you can tell I'm looking at my window here. We've had some rain, unfortunately So nothing worse when you're going to pick up electronics. It's some rain So I might have to hang out here for a while But I just want to let you know I did get here safely and fine And I'm gonna go look at these pvms. I talked to him on the phone a little bit more It sounds like there's some nice ones again. Maybe At least one 20 l 5 and a couple other like I said four in total So, uh, let's go ahead and we'll go inside and get set up I'll let you see some of the monitors as they sit now and we'll get them and see what they are And we'll take them back to the shop. All right. So just made it inside here. Let's go ahead See how we got it Oh, yeah Let's take a look here at these bed boys All right, we got at least one 20 l 5. Yes and a couple others So 20 l 5. Oh, yes 2003 Oh, look at this one It's a not as great 20 l 2 but 2004 date. Yes What is this one? 1954 q solid And then we got this poor guy 20 and you won with just s video And composite so that little guy he'll go with me but Probably useless, but anyway We'll get these bad boys back to the shop Turned on see how they look man awesome This is what I call a great score. I was hoping there'd be at least one 20 l 5 in there is Get that bad boy. Okay Okay, obviously gonna need to do some Pretty heavy duty cleaning that's got some marker on there. Hopefully that'll come off Because that that one we need to be pretty good shape. Okay, I'll lay sharpie on the glass Oh man, so There you go Definitely can use this one probably for parts Maybe even the tube if you want to take it apart For another one. So that's it. We'll take them back and load them now If I'll shoot a video show you how I've got them loaded in my Jeep All right guys as you can see The rain has finally stopped. I've got all four pvms loaded Right now I've got This one is just this one just a s video. So it's probably going to be used for parts Maybe I'll sell it at the upcoming convention because it's not worth too much. But then I've got Um, I'm 1954 q in good shape And let me pick up the camera and we'll look around at the others So there's those loaded And then this is the best one the 20. Oh five loaded Ready to go Beautiful tv right there or monitor excuse me and then Another 20 l too. So great stuff again Let's get them back to the shop Set up unloaded And we'll start running some tests on these to see just how great they are One we're back The sun is shining the rain has stopped I've got the pvms ready to unload So I figured I'd just go ahead set the camera Let's pop the trunk And let's get these bad boys out of here. All right. So there we have it. We have unloaded the pvms And that's this one this one This one and this one So we've gone through those these are the other back stocks I've got you've seen some of these monitors before in the old videos But just so you know a couple of them do have some issues this 14 inch It's got something wrong with the One of the capacitors probably is failing on the deflection board and it's causing Some of the corner geometry troubles to basically not hold the geometry So this one needs a cap job And I'm also going to take it completely apart clean it and rebuild it and then repaint it And the same thing with this one down here. They both need the same Love and attention these other ones hopefully don't need all that but we'll see This one does not this one's in really good shape. It's a 20 l too But just so you can see something I want you to notice it's like a 20 l too. So for example 20 l too is right here Now sit on and then this is a 20 l too same exact monitor But this one does not have any pull tabs, which I've not seen It's actually got nothing there never had them And this one does and this one's obviously white and this one's gray This one came from a medical facility medical device attached to it This one came from a production facility video production So that's what the difference is and why they look different So even though they had different purposes and they're practically the same monitor You can see how much different they look Uh, they will do a lot of things like that. Uh, again, this one looks exactly the same as the other one you've seen That's the 1954 q and So that's it. That's the stack. I'll show you come here and so you can see the rest of the ones I've currently got Um, there's the other 54 q that we've seen before And let's see here That's a flat samsung monitor. I got a while ago from an airport salvage job I might show it someday so you can see that there's another little old crt sharp lenitron Let's see down here. Oh, there's two more eight inch pvms here's a 20 2030 and that one's got Some big issue. I think it's got either the Hot or Something on the power side. It's not one to stay powered on so that one needs a lot of work And uh, just haven't had time to get to it. Let's go over here and see some more over there Those are just 14 inch monitors. Those are really old and Don't have the same look as they should so I just I there in stock Storage and of course we've got the 36 inch in there. So the shop's getting pretty full now Uh, but that's pretty much going to do it for today's video I'm going to do a lot of I've got a lot of work to do on these things. So, uh, naturally I'm going to videotape a lot of it and publish it but for right now I think that's going to be it for today. So if you haven't already please Make sure you subscribe to the channel so you can see what's going on with the latest crt's I'm also going to do some more episodes like this where I talk about Ways you could go find them in your local area because again, I don't want to pay for shipping shipping I do ship them because I know how to ship them and it takes a lot of precise Thinking as well as planning to ship them properly. You can't under you cannot basically have any You can't make any mistakes. You can't afford to you got to make sure you pack it to prepare for A delivery person to drop it and hopefully survive. That's what you got to kind of pack them for so I'll go through How to get them some other places you can look because I've got other other types of facilities that I go to try to hunt down pvms, but I hope you enjoyed the video. Please give it a like or Share it the content if you think somebody will enjoy it and thanks for watching retro tech. Have a great day