 Well, hello there hello there everybody How are all you wonderful? friends and people doing out there in YouTube land I'm sorry it has been a minute it has been a hot minute since we've been able to be together on A live edition of the bunker now. I do have some epic news coming which I consider epic. I know that Maybe I overblow things, but this is pretty cool. What I've got to tell you and then I do have a stack of Brilliant ideas I had while I was drinking bourbon. No, I'm just kidding. Actually, this is my logbook that I'm keeping of Just an extra logbook for 2024 on all the lovely Sony or actually any CRTs that I've been restoring I've got them logged in this book Since it's been a while I've can go through and show you all What I've been up to what's been going on. I'll tell you a little bit too because there's a reason I haven't been able to come to a show and Anyway, if you could please do one thing for me and that is of course hit the like button It's been so long. I have no idea how many people are gonna be able to just show up out of the blue Like this. I do have coal right here with me. I do see a lot of people in the chat Thank you everybody for showing up who's already here Belmont, thank you for coming early mark. Welcome back Robcat see you there Mumpful jumbo Jones roll Pats welcome back Jake is way black welcome back Ronnie Yes, you too good to see all you guys jumbo Jones and Season salt. I think I got everybody there Anyway, if I didn't get you don't worry. We're gonna go in and as I said, we're gonna go through. Yeah, Cole He's running around here. Oh Here, let me let me see. So first off check it out I do have a dual camera here now. This is This is kind of the theme demo Kirby. What's up? Oh, there he goes. He just left I I literally just moved the camera to try to show him and he gets up and walks out of the room Typical right Anyway, there we go Let's take it back to the face. Anyway, thank you all again. We're gonna hang out here for a minute Yeah, great to see everybody back. We'll come back and Let's get into it. Let's start with this really cool news. Maybe I could find a cool picture Just in case, you know, it's been a little bit since my friend Here has been uh Well online, I mean he's come and done some guest appearances here with us He's been on some other shows with me and None other than my good friend, which I have teased. I mean, what's the big deal, right? I have teased this Happening so my buddy Your pal my old and prior co-host Mr. Lewis says ran aka says retro This man has traveled all the way from his home in Estonia In Europe to get a taste of the American life And he will be stopping by none other than the Shenandoah Valley here in the state of virginia to visit me I'm going to pick him up from the airport tomorrow And he's going to be hanging here through the whole weekend through monday and um Anyway, if you don't know who says is look at his channel. Go check him out. You know him though. Come on. There we are It's been a while since we've actually done goodness A podcast, but we did probably 60 podcasts. So we're going to be live together here That's why I'm trying to make some alterations I'm trying to make some alterations to the setup to get some spots in here And that's why I got this new microphone because I have a second microphone that I've Well the old microphone I used to have So we'll have two spots here And I mean we're going to just hang out and we're going to do random stop in Live streams. I don't even know what time it will be. He's coming tomorrow The first one could be tomorrow tomorrow evening or something and then throughout the weekend I am going to take him to a basketball game A college basketball game. It's actually a pretty big one should be about 8 000 people throwing down at the small college here And so I'm excited to show him that Race welcome back. Yeah, it should be fun. Tuner Tom. Thank you for coming Yeah, so Anyway Zez is in america And we're going to show him a good time. I plan to record some real fun stuff But the funny thing is is I've done I think probably 70 podcasts with the man and um, we've worked on a compilations together with People we also have been working. I mean we work behind the scenes. We talk all the time You know, we're involved with different chats with other people that you guys know um In the industry and so I think it's going to be an epic good time I mean, we're going to have some streams where I'm sure we're going to be probably consuming adult beverages and then Spilling all the beans Dishing it up on all your favorite uh retro celebrities. So make sure you make sure you check it out And we might just bust open some CRTs together. We've never done that. But that's what I mean. We are literally going to be Uh getting together for the first time. Like I've never met him in person. It's just been awesome. I feel like a little kid Gotta try to sneak it. Hey, you know funny thing about this race is my seats I have season tickets and they're low and they're right next to see student section like This is how awesome my seats are. They're right next to the tunnel. There's Cole My seats are right next to the tunnel of the basketball arena where the Visiting team comes in and out of and I like talk trash to the players as they walk it out and I mean the last game they were like Doing all these I don't even know man. What are all these cool? What does what does it mean when somebody does this to you on a basketball team up while you're in the stands? But that's what like the players were staring at me and doing that and then the second half My team just came and whipped their butts beat him by like 30 I have no idea what that is. But anyway, my seats are right next to that and uh, I'm literally known as the loud guy in the section And so look if you want to if you're crazy and you want to come to town I don't know if you're like a wild person that wants to come to town and go to this game It's going to be the jmu basketball game It's actually going to be on television Probably on like espn two or something, but it's jmu against akron The university of akron and it's it's like two of these mid major Teams in basketball both top ends of the division. I mean our team has Our team has 20 wins and three losses. So that's how good The team where we're going for it. So anyway We're gonna have fun They do serve alcohol at this college games, which is not like every campus doesn't do that. I have been kicked out of a game before I've probably told I don't know. I've already been like, here's the thing You know, we sometimes people joke about the steve vortex going back and telling funny stories So I can only imagine the kind of stories would be drumming up together In our chats. So anyway, that's the big announcement and While we're hanging let's see if oh look Yeah, there he is down there. Look, he's eating the bed What are you doing boy? You eating that bed? There's little coal right next to Look at him. We see you. What are you doing down there? Huh All right Excellent. Look at him down there All right Anyway, if you could please make sure again that you leave a like And if you want to have fun you want to come to the game? I'm sure there's somebody that will be there uh to hang out and I'm definitely the loud guy at the game. So anyway All right So that's the announcement glad for everybody and we've been going about nine minutes Please do so. Let's uh, let's look at some repairs. I mean right Brilliant ideas. I had while drinking bourbon Let's see So in the month of january, I actually made it through six pvms Uh full restorations with repairs on every one of them gosh three l5s A two 14 inch one 20 inch Uh two m series pvms m4 and an m2 and then a 50 series pvm And that was all last month So I'm wondering Guys, where should where would you like to start? so Let's talk first off the one about the m4u. I did a full episode on with the red light. So we don't probably You know, we don't need to rehash that one So, oh, sorry Cole snuck under my legs there So what we're going to do is we'll go in here and I think maybe Let's start with one of these l series. I had an l series that was pretty wild and this one showed up to me Flat not working right the the owner said it it popped And once it popped it did not Work again and what I'm what I'm talking about is a 20 l5 that looks just like this one This is a different one now. This one's a different one. It's it's up on the next to be restored Uh, you know coming up So I'm going to pull up that file. Let me make sure I get the correct one And And we'll take a look at that Repair because like I said, it was it was it was incredible. It was throwing sparks at me Let's see if we can find it Yes, okay And it was a bad shape very bad shape. Okay, so there you see it right there. Let me uh, let me fix up And we're going to go over here to this picture's chest screen and I want to show you first off the service notes here This moves Yes, sir, we we're gonna Relax and look at what we did. Let's see if I can zoom in here. I'm not exactly the best I'm probably navigating Navigating this so I'm sorry if you could see it. It's fine. It's fine So This is the 20 l5 First off I got it. I tested the screen. It was not working. It overloads So you turn it on it just pops turns off It pops off and Then uh, I checked the boards The first thing I did was I recapped and repaired the g mainboard and I'll show you pictures of that And I replaced an ic on there which is all part of the kit And this kit is kind of a expansion off a save on pat's kick kit Sorry Where I've just added more to it And then I also did repairs to the seaboard, but the seaboard was ultimately the problem It kept it was the problem. So I had to actually replace it I had to replace it with a different salvage seaboard. I'll show you that I'm gonna should go walk through pictures on all this, but this is a pretty normal Uh restoration job after so with this one I had a little bit of troubleshooting because it was overloading So it is a little bit more expensive Because it wound up needing another board. So that added to the cost just on the parts end And then you're going to see me. So I put it all back together after I've got it done tested it Pretty much got it working again. The cool thing is I should have a little video On here of what actually happened, but uh, this is this is a section I include I include this document with the restorations that I do for my clients here So let me just read through these special notes for a second This pvm was not functioning when it arrived I started by opening the monitor and inspecting for visible damage I did not find any physical damage I did find evidence that your pvm was worked on at some point in the past The yoke has been receded completely on the tube This generally indicates that the original tube went bad at some point on this monitor And it was professionally replaced I removed the main g board and cleaned it. I installed a repair kit on it The repair kit was 17 parts in total 16 capacitors and 1 ic after replacing these parts I reflowed the solder on the transformers of the board and clean the board while I was working on This board I did find multiple modifications that were added After original manufacturing, I do not know when these were done But I cleaned up everything and left them all in place They may have been a needed repair for the monitor at some point in the past I installed the g board and serviced the c board, which is the neck board So that's the main board in the secondary neck board. I replaced r705, which is a Fuse style resistor on the neck board The resistor was blown. I reflowed the solder and serviced the whole board Once I powered it on the pvm immediately burned out the fresh resistor after I changed it So I went through and I trouble shouted some more. Hey Kenny Went through and trouble shouted some more and found this spot where All the ic's on it were shorting every one of them So I found a replacement c board and installed it and refurbished it and it worked the pvm worked after that And so I restored the deflection boards. Also, there's two of those Replaced all the capacitors and the pvm is now functional. I tested the pvm works fine I performed the listed adjustments and clean the pvm. Please see the pictures and that's what I get there you go Gosh a 20 incher like this one. I think this one. I mean the funny thing is is this particular one was considered the bargain one the 20 the 20 0 5 would have been I believe it about the $5,000 $6,000 usually But that was you know early 2000s money you could maybe get them for four if you got like a lower Star cost are you think? Uh, yeah one came right no the the ones that were really expensive are the bvms like the uh A 20 inch bvm those were you're actually not too far off coaster. It was like Those would get up over $20,000 so So that's new that's why they were only at studio houses and why you had to go around and Rent the equipment and why it cost so much money to make movies And uh edit things back in this time period pre internet Pre all the advantages. We have a software now and being able to upload things online All right So there's that that's what the monitor looks like. This is the 20 l 5 monitor an example of it It's not the same one from this packet. This has been picked up already All right, so there you go. You have an idea That service note I'm going to show you some pictures here. We're going to start with this is actually not what we're going to start with We're going to start with the side here that's the This is the beginning. We're going to go through this process Well the d24. I mean here's the thing. All right. Kenny was asking if The d24 will ever come down in price So I feel like they've peaked Hey snuffer stuffer welcome uh, I feel like they've peaked kind of and It depends obviously where you're at what the condition is. I've seen them go for really high, but I have more people now looking Actually sending messages asking how much they think they could sell their 24 inch monitors for so I don't really know what to tell them. I tell them between five to seven thousand generally Depending on I mean, it's hard to find a buyer too. It's not that easy to find somebody who's really wanting to spend that much money Anymore, right? There's not I don't I don't know. It's still hard to tell I feel like If you're a serious buyer, I can help somebody find a good monitor. That's the thing You just don't want to spend a bunch of money on one of these and have it You know be a turd because that's what can happen with these large Multiformat especially the flat ones that are the 24 inch ones All right back to the repair file. I'm gonna Breeze or burn through some pictures here for you and we'll go closer on some of these if we need to but this is The pvm when it came in This is what it looked like Now I do I do do not normally tell people this but do you see this dash four That indicator Yeah, they have come down a little bit. They haven't like fallen off the map or anything So it's not like they've come down. They went way up Um for a couple years and and then they kind of plateaued but It's like the real estate market. They're not making more of it. So You know the demand as long as the demand As long as the demand is is there there's not generally enough supply To meet the demand on something like this. They don't remake them now You always have other options. So There's that but anyway, this is this is like the version. So there's four versions. This is the fourth version So there's like little differences between each version if you have a dash one two three or four Fourth I think is the last version they made. So it's again. It's like, you know, four revisions To the same style of whatever device they were doing that even in pvms Yeah, they were made well after 2007 actually well, you know Well, the crt's would have been up until the l series and I do think that you might have stopped seeing those In 2007 and the m series. They were still making m series for medical uses. No Actually, the l series did have a medical series. Sorry. So, yeah Probably about then now they did make bvms that were the a series bvms up until like 2011 or 12 because I've got one that's Pretty late Awesome McMuffin. Welcome in everybody. Yeah, I mean I'm gonna don't quote me exact on that I'm really just playing with my memory here, which Basically the reason I haven't been able to come to a show the last couple weeks I got a bad cold a couple weeks ago And then it went through and hit the rest of people in my family and luckily for them And so for the last couple weeks I've just been well I've just been dealing with that Anyway Here's what I was talking about in my notes where I said that it looked like someone had been in here before This wedge is a good indicator Let's see. We have two different types of epoxy here. Okay This black epoxy that's standard So I can tell here Is that was removed see I was removed here cut away there and it was cut away from there That's the wedge that holds same thing up here wedge that holds The yoke and the spot where the yoke needs to sit on a tube So what it looked like to me was the tube was probably swapped out At some point professionally and then reinstalled and then that person had to go in here and make all kinds of adjustments They obviously had to redo the yoke Uh all the convergence rings when you do that and then you have to add convergence strips And you reseed everything and then it's got this different glue And that's just not the same glue they used in the factory. So that's an obvious sign You see here's here's what that looks like in the factory, right? Here it is. That's that rtv silicone black product and this is just a different product. You see They didn't use that But it's professional. Okay. These are like the right so they either pulled these Uh strips off they got like a pack from sony. This could have been done by a sony tech honestly Or by like a sony center Kenny asked fiber watch Uh urban exploration videos abandoned malls and get upset at the monitors left behind Abandoned hotel and they just demolished it with crt. Yeah, you're gonna you're just gonna break your heart looking at that stuff There's so many different things like that I think about the worst even worse than seeing it in videos. I think about the times I thought Man, I don't have enough space. This has been like 2017. I don't have space Nobody wants those crts. I can't take those 20 and then they would just be left And and I never got them, right? So it's like Those were pvms. Those were back like eight inch ones. I could have taken them. Nobody cared. They ended up throwing them out I think or breaking them down and trying to recycle them, but Yeah, there's a lot of things like that It's really terrible, but it's fun to it's still fun to watch that stuff and Um, there's some malls around here that I actually still have a mall that is still open Maybe I'll take zez to it when he gets into town. So there's just the other side of that Yoke can tell there. That's all been redone All redone up in here There's the back. There's the neck board. There's that side If we look in here, maybe we can see the now. That's not a good picture. Got the cable blocking. So the first thing I do Is remove that neck board And then I have to expand excuse me and then I expand the Board see you have to remove both of the side boards there So you've got the deflection card over here Then you've got the input board and commute comms board over here That's how you get this main board out So I didn't see anything that was pulling up red flags here But I went ahead and did or there actually was red flag weren't there. I'm wrong This was one of the things that I had not seen before You can see this capacitor C632 This looks to be a if I had to guess that's a smd surface mount capacitor of some type That's over here pushed out to what I believe is a ground point but I'm not really sure why that was added It's not normally there. Um, let's see. There's another picture of it Here's another thing But this is all stuff that you would normally see on these boards that was done by sony. Again, we have the same black RTV silicone. This is a diode between another capacitor leg And they get a van and a diode right so a diode These are just probably adjustments or things that had to be made to this Later on so just to keep that in mind. Hey steve steven norton Actually, this is steven norton's Look, there's your there's your 20l 5 steven. That's his a and cat This is but this is not yours in the video. This is a different one So this is one of the ic's I replaced just in case it was problematic. It's the main hot On there Um, so I replaced it. It wasn't shorted but I went ahead and replaced it. It's in the kit With save on pats parts Especially since it was blowing, but this is just me replacing it Okay Then I removed all the caps in the cap kit And I think that like the normal when I first started with this cap kit I think only two or three of these capacitors in this area were in the kit And you can just see how it is a pain in the neck working on this particular one But anyway, these are the ones I've expanded and added a bunch of caps in here I remove all these in this area not this big one And this one's a pain in the neck to get to because it's on the opposite side of those That's the ones you just looked at The six three fours in the kit and look at it. It is cornered in this Heat sink right next to this hot resistor and then this is a big resistor solid So you have to remove the resistor just to get the cap out. You have to get this cap out over here Anyway, I've done this so many times that I know How to do this pretty safely, but they're wedged in there Now look you could the thing is a lot of these caps are still Still reading fine. They're not part of this kit. They don't affect this repair. It seems I think that eventually we're going to have to deal with all these capacitors down the road, but These are nishi con and rubicon high quality caps That are still going to be as good rated as a lot of times as replacements But these are part of this failed kit. These do burn out. This is another one that's randomly on the board Here's a set of four right in here. I replaced and there's that Newly installed ic right there. Whoops start up that let's go back to that picture Now look at some solder work Let's go here. This is After I removed it you can see the empty holes there same thing here just empty holes Empty holes. These are all the caps, right? These are all the ones that 16 caps when I see all changed out And I don't I don't like I said that's part of this kit there. They all are the ones I've changed out all the parts Here's the installed ones This is that same area where I told you all these caps were removed Right in there and that's right inside the This is the area it sorry cancel. This is the power supply Spot where the power comes in right over not right there. I think the opposite side it comes right in No, it actually does it comes in right here. Sorry about that because there's the fuse That's where the ac voltage comes in and then it's you know filtered Sent down turned into dc turned into all different other currents. That's used by the pvm And that's why I go through and recap all that So there's those caps. Here's these other capacitors. You can see them Down in there. There's been replaced. There's that big See how you have to remove that because you can't get your fat finger Or that capacitor down in there without removing it So that's a little trick if you ever work on a pvm 2005 you've got to remove that resistor there to get to that Capacitor just more pictures of the capacitors installed La la la here's the bottom Other things I would have done. I reflow solder all in this spot The octagon right the mighty octagon here all that gets reflowed And that's your bottom side of your flyback transformer and a couple resistors big resistors over there Here's the solder points I would breeze through these. I mean this is just re-solder reflow solder replacement Solder kits. Hey, thank you coaster. Um This is something too that uh I think uh, what one of the best things I ever got advised was to just try to you know Think of think of your work. How can you make yourself like almost it's I know it sounds silly like people Go through you you have the ability to go through and even though like I've done again I mean just in the last Month and in February the first thing I did was another l5. I have done four l5s in the last um 40 days And if I explain that out the whole time I've done them I mean, I'm trying to really perfect the art here of what I'm doing and the best way to do that is through Tracking your work Uh as simple as it could be to to Taking pictures like this Seeing what you're doing. It also is a great way to prove your abilities to people You know Anyway, this was the original. I'm about to get into the good stuff. I think we're about to have something that sparks here This is the original neck board and this was the problem board. This is that resistor I removed Come on, baby. Let's see There's the replacement. There's the old one. There's a replacement Install the replacement. Where is it? Oh, there it is way Uh nestled up in here And then I went and I reflowed all the solder you could tell on the board and cleaned it checked Just checked the components. They looked fine Everything looked fine There's just a picture of the reflowed board more of it And there it is installing it All right, I surely hope this shows up here I'm gonna try to pause our music and This is this should be fun. Let's pause that pause that jazz for a second and Let's see what this does All right, I've done the repair kit to this silly So any pvm 2005 but it just keeps frying the neck board resistor Oh, sorry here we go Watch this Did you see it like did you see that? All right, I'm gonna play it back here so you can actually see it and um What I want you to do is I won't go back too far Pay attention to the neck board Right the resistors This first heat sink you see on the far right and then there's a capacitor right here where my cursor is right in this area Uh, watch that. Let's let's go back a little further Watch that area. Let's come back here because I'm gonna have to press when I press the button. Okay Let's see if it does at this time We're gonna see what the neck board does So here's the thing this this one was quite crazy because as I would This I mean I replaced that resistor three times Three times before my thick head of this I replaced it. I saw a pop and I was like, uh I don't know. Maybe that resistor was bad And so then I replaced the resistor again And I made sure you know double checked all the connections made sure everything was cleaned up And if fried again, I literally went through like four of the resistors before I finally Went and found a salvageable board from my Boneyard on a l5 That was a thank goodness. It was the fourth version just like this one so That's what I did. I swapped it out and I was like, please don't fry anymore because I literally ran out of the resistors That was my last one What's the one you just saw explode So the only thing I had was left. I'd have to go start trying to get uh But that's a scary thing if you're working on a pvm you turn it on and it does that and that explains the pop sound the pop sound so let's uh That that's what the well the i'm sorry the I told you this earlier the customer told me That they heard a sorry they heard a pop sound when they were playing it And that's must have what it is something shorted obviously and something is still shorted on that board and that's why it keeps popping like that like boom And so the funny thing was is I had a couple different types of this resistor. It's like a 39 Ohm resistor and Some of the resistors would obviously fail But they wouldn't fully blow up. They were maybe a little bit higher quality And then the low ones I would try it with the low ones and they would literally spark a big fire almost And the I was like whoa, whoa, but the other ones Would still light that you could still get energy to the tube and let it overload again and I just would power it off uh, but it didn't matter With that board and I actually You know No, it's all the way back in the back of the shop I can go get that board if we want to look at it because I had to I had to take my good board and Anyway That was the board Okay, now let's see. Let's see what this video is Okay, so this is the neck board the the different the salvaged the neck board So that that right there is completely normal activity from an l5 see Okay, so there you have it So that that was actually good since that you can tell I had the pinout You know you saw that I'm sure I'm sure you saw that right there like if we go back to here and just back a little bit Come on. There's the pin out for the tube I was literally getting ready to hook the tube tester up if I did not have the uh Replacement neck board. I was gonna have to test the tube and make sure there wasn't a short in it Thankfully, I found that neck board and I went ahead and swapped it All right, so there's look at that. That's a good picture. Look at what it would do Look at what it would do Every time look at that I mean, that's what the spark does afterwards R705 Nearly catches it shoots a big flame Another picture of it Oh, goodness gracious. There they are. Look at look at all of them. Look at all of them all the ones I perked up testing This one was the worst Look at it. I had tried to I was like, all right, this one's gonna be good. It's got the uh, it's got the It's got the uh The heat shrink tubing I'm gonna fix it Bam this was caught fire. So Uh, then yeah, but this one was blown too right here. This one did not pop. It just blew And That's it Isn't that crazy? There you go all the same rated But they were from different suppliers. Goodness. I think some of these replacements might have been from some A shady Supplier thankfully I'm out of them and I got new ones All right so Let's see Believe this is the new board right or this is the old board. Nope. This is the replacement board Yeah, guys, if you haven't fun with this, please drop me a like on the stream. I have a probably good good size, uh Crowd here. I'm not really monitoring it but anyway, um The way the chat's going so here's the replacement board Reflowed all the solder on everything The one thing I did note is this had This had come from a damaged pvm that was damaged in shipping and had been parted out and You see down here this neck board had a crack running through it up through here You can see that hairline crack right in there where my cursor is right over here I had to just get that crack put back together I fixed everything everything is perfectly It has continuity traces are all connect connected I just had to put some epoxy down here after I reflowed all the solder and that way the board was Nice and normal like that. You see that down there So what happened on the original board? I took I took this board out and what I figured out was These three ic's up here that are on the heat sink On the original board had all shorted and that's the part you see these rails right here There's three rail or three sets of rails running parallel That have white tracks right there at a bunch of points. Those are those really complex ic's And you can't get replacements. I mean I have to get them from pat But every single one of them was shorted So that's what made me think all that's probably the issue because I tested this one Which all you do is you take your multimeter and you just put it literally to test this you just put your multimeter in ohms mode or I'm sorry Yeah, ohms slash noise making continuity check mode where it just beeps if things are connected And then you go around and you just check to make sure that nothing's shorted like nothing's grounded together That's not supposed to be So that's what I did. I would put something I'd find the ground to and I make sure everything Did not Ground out that was supposed to be grounded And that was not supposed to be grounded and there actually was some stuff shorted on those chips So that's uh, that's definitely a problem Hey del welcome in Good buddy. I got to get you on the show now that i'm back here Definitely gonna do that when you got some time. Maybe this month. Maybe march I was thinking about doing a tube tester Episode with a cool old rca trash picked tv. I've got That should be the same tube uh as the I believe it's this one. I believe it's got this 23 connector that she sent me For my bkm Uh crt tester. It should be this So it's gonna be fun to test and when I do that, maybe we'll just do that together Anyway There's the the backside of those chips and they're the ones up here attached to this board or these three heat sinks. They're They're on the outside. I don't know. Let's see if I got a good picture of it for you Did I get a good picture of the other side? There's a good one See there's there's those chips those I see right there See how they have all those legs and that's what pat told me. He's like if they blow There's generally one leg on here and he knows the one from his head Like if you ask save on pat call him. He'll be like, yeah, just to see if this pen's shorted Yep, that's blown but the problem um So that's that's what happened And I think that it cost me less to offer this client this restored board Than to order all those three ic's and replace them That's crazy thing because they're not they're not cheap. They're hard to find Somebody was like stomping on the ceiling while I was filming that We're walking Anyway, um Yeah, so that's the repair that fixed it. That was the problem And that's a pretty Common thing for a burnout 20 or l series is that problem seems to come from those neck boards Oh, here's some photographs of everything adjusted I'm just amazed by how this l20 l5 can sometimes get such amazing performance for convergence for a 20 for a 20 inch And you know, it's amazing. There's not I guess the deep corners You usually get one Corner at least it's always kind of bad on those pvms, but not on this one There you go again. Look how tight all that is that is pure white because everything is falling in line All the colors red green and blue are converged perfectly And you're not having any bleeding over And so you don't get a blurry corner Oh, yeah, stuff for stuff for the big news is that zezz is coming to visit Uh I'm going to pick him up tomorrow from the airport So we're going to have a lot of fun. We're going to be doing some live streams Yeah, in case you just showed up my buddy says retro Okay, a lewis zezaran Is uh the guy I had done podcasts with for two years the cathedrae podcast and I'm going to pick him up from the airport he flew in from well originally from estonia To visit the united states And to visit so we're going to hang out for five days and then Be shooting a lot of stuff as far as Video All right This is just the file you get Yep That's right So but tomorrow's the actual day's coming and so we're going to do some like live stream stuff I wanted to get everybody's attention kind of make sure that show this is also i'm also doing Uh like some of this new equipment I've been testing out new audio equipment new microphone Make sure everything's been out zezz is in town. Yeah, he's in uh Not yet. I got to go pick him up at the airport tomorrow There you go So let's see this client was really concerned about 480p just functioning And so I did test 480p and there it is Uh, just so you could see if you're in 480p the monitor switch switches over into progressive mode And then it will say 480 60p right there I am in Harrisonburg virginia Harrisonburg virgin anybody here snoring? Let's call he is out here snoring like a grandpa like your grandpa watching a golf tournament On a sunday afternoon after lunch he is passed out in his lazy boy All right, so that was the repair now this Uh Let's see that was the repair portion I also gosh that was a long snore call I'm gonna put some jazz back on for a second Um That was a repair file. This is then afterwards just I will look at this real quickly, but He's fell asleep That's cold cold blooded. You like those basketball players. They were yelling at me doing this Whatever that is whatever cut down that is with these new age children his new age youngsters Smack into forearm or whatever they're doing. I don't know what that is They said I yelled at them too much Anyway This is the deflection block much easier to get to it's out here So that's gets removed You got to separate The two boards separation Because this has six caps. I usually take out of it six capacitors. Let's see. Yep. There they all go And I haven't have you have to take these ones out up here too with the diodes in it Take those out Leave the diodes then reinstall the diodes afterwards See how I just kind of sucked it out around there and left those diodes in place So there you go six I must have got to figure out I don't know what that is. I don't know what it is These guys were very upset one of their their best player last weekend when we went it was a game was a rivalry game And uh, you got kicked out of the game double technical We got big blabber sodders. That's just the six caps again. There's replaced capacitors. Let's see That all looks fine Here's the There you go. See you just reinstall those diodes looks so good And same thing with the the other board pretty much gets all the caps replaced all replaced there So let's go back here. Yeah There's just a couple more photos after it's done put back in Here we go looking good It's something, you know, I'm not with it. I'm not with it I'm so bad at modern stuff anything. I'm not with that new age stuff Except for like retro take stuff. I'd be into that. It's about it So that's it That is one of the big repairs Oh my gosh, uh del the closest thing is uh, there is one in a cornfield somewhere No joke let's see Shenandoah airport that's in the drive This airport's funny It's out in the middle of nowhere This is it. It's like that's literally it's one Yeah, this is it. This is my one in airport with one terminal It's got one silly terminal And I think you have to connect through charlin in it or something It's this is like where you fly these sesnas, baby. Look at this And then there's the airport That's the closest one then the next the closest one to this is charlotsville And it's a rat. There's a cornfield around it If uh, it's in the middle of nowhere in a cornfield That's the closest one and then um charlotsville Airport is the big airport that's near it. It's to it. It's like 45 minutes away. This one's about 15 The one I have to go pick up zez from tomorrow is two hours It's a different airport And then he flies back out of the one that's charlotsville. So it's like 40 minutes away from here from me So That's it. That's it So what do you think what uh so says actually flew in to do like work training for his company and He's in texas right now. I believe doing that and then he's coming here before he leaves It's my house and fallout 76. I don't know maybe I don't play but like I don't play many games that are like, uh I think I haven't gotten past fallout three I think that was the last one I played. I went I played the heck out of it But I'm sure this is in there somewhere the woodgrain the concrete walls the snoring dog It's definitely a bunker full of crts and weaponry Oh So there's that one, uh, the others I'm trying to think of You saw the 20m for you. That was the one that had the Red light that that was again, you didn't see it today, but that was when I made a full episode about three weeks ago about And you saw the 20 oh five that had all the problems the only thing else would have been a 14 oh five three of those Those are all dead the same exact thing done to him That you just saw so none of that's different That just leaves an m2 m2u A 1353 m2u All right, let's look back at those. Let's look back at one of those I'm trying to think of which one was in more shape Of the two because that's one we should look at right the worst one. What a wonderful day Let's look at that one briefly See it's lovely having these files in here because then I can just pull it up and check out Check it out I could refer to it And you could refer to it if you got your pvm service, then you go what did steve do? Oh, he actually showed me everything Wish more businesses would do things this way All right, so this pvm in the diagnostic stage has purity issues And their rgb line fault That's all the parts that were replaced. There's quite a few more here three boards again capacitors There's some adjustments Let's read the special notes from myself. Let's go through another paragraph After I had the monitor broken down, I went through each board Thoroughly checking the components I replaced all the capacitors and components in the repair kit I changed a few other capacitor capacitors. I found to be bad Every part that was replaced is listed above I also reflowed solder on the neck board and the power supply as a preventative measure I reflowed the solder on the coil inductors And transformers on the main board I cleaned each board You can see pictures of each board in the in the servicing process Located in the pictures files of the drive folder I added one convergent strip to the crt to improve the corner convergence I fixed the purity problems by adjusting the yoke I cleaned the outside of the pvm and installed a replacement sony badge Overall, this pvm is in great condition. It performs as intended I was able to go through a set of tests without issues I also made the adjustments listed above to get the screen to an excellent starting point for use The pvm is ready to be picked up and enjoyed Thank you very much Now if you're not snoring yet like coal Well, maybe you could take a second to look through some repair pictures here There we go Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do All right, this is a look at the 20 m2 mdu which If you don't know Is actually the medical variant So this would have been Located in your hospitals It may have been Located in some type of a clinic For like a colonoscopy Or some other type of procedure Maybe Just maybe your parents Got a good look at a baby on one of these Through an ultrasound Maybe you had an ultrasound That you viewed on a pvm m series like the one you see before you But that's where this came from So there you go Let's see this is 1997 So that's right If you were for some reason Getting some kind of medical procedure done in the 90s The doctors would have been viewing it on this type of monitor Now this one is excellent because It has two rgb Inputs the others that are not medical Okay, sorry snuffer. I've getting used to this new mic. I'm probably Messed it up because it has phantom power so I won't touch it Anyway, thanks for the warning So this has Two inputs here See them for rgb and component Now this top one has outputs the the bottom one does not But that's the only build out like that the others that are not medical Just the regular m-series That are studio monitors. They do not have that second output or input. They don't have it at all Here's what it looks like on the inside. These are a little bit easier to get around in they only have one primary board down there The base There's the input board Here's our neck board and then this is the power supply over to the side Yes jumbo jones, you may have been viewed on this very pvm Thank you. No, no, I appreciate snuffer snuffer. I don't like I have no way of really knowing If I don't get feedback like that So there you go. November of 97 So that's once it looks like when you break out that main board And actually I pulled it all out together The neck board right here The main board and then the input board all in one Now things that are different on this are from the inside This medical board or this medical variant will have these coils right here See how this ground has a coil around it silly coils ferrite coils there are going to be more of those inside medical variants So you get all that out get everything cleared out and there's the main board There's all the caps from the cap kit that I removed Let me show you So I didn't seem to get a picture of the red green and blue line issue here But what that's caused by is not these two capacitors, but these are deflection capacitors vertical deflection right in this area Whoops The ones that actually caused the red green and blue line issue are over and behind that these back in here In the vertical blanking circuit right there these two This one And this one So if you have red green and blue lines You need to replace at a minimum these two and actually these two So you need to replace these four At a bare minimum So your monitor doesn't short circuit Okay Stammy killer do medic non medical variants of this Also come with shielding around the tube that specific it's pretty much the same shielding And that shielding is meant to prevent To prevent purity problems and outside influence from magnetism and so they wanted that on all of them And it's literally just metal So it had a good question, but it and it is different on some Brands You'll notice a branding depending on the brand they'll be different, but There's other caps in this kit A lot of them right there's a different one down here some down here Actually, that one's replaced too. I don't know why I got it. I must have forgot to take the picture before I removed it about Six or seven in between they're get done. There's the board There's the holes I'm just taking picture holes so that the client will have the ease and peace of mind to know that Board wasn't damaged in the process This this is look at this Yes, this is this is really why This is why you have to be like slightly advanced high level On this repair or recap Because this is a dual-sided board and look at just These capacitors locations okay And that's pretty soundly Like right here you've got A surface mount resistor here Here here and you got to come in and extract Legs of these capacitors right in beside all that like how cramped that is Not to mention You're dealing with solder that solder can heat up and Actually as it heats it might splash And i'm going to tell you something man. I've had an l5 I've had this happen before with an l5 where Like check out this this see this big capacitor right here It's going to be easier to show you on that one, but it was more like this size capacitor I had a solder splash From removing and changing a capacitor where it's splashed over And it somehow No, shit Bridged the whole capacitor Now thank goodness nothing shorted out But I didn't see it So what happened is? Splash Hits the capacitor I reinstalled the board. I'd fire it up and it just doesn't turn on Just didn't turn on it on at all. So i'm checking everything and I checked it through everything was put back together I took the set of a gun apart and start taking a magnifying glass to the board And I found the fresh solder splash I took my multimeter again checked it sure enough. It was shorted Because of the solder splash. I got some solder wick braid out clean the area up Removed it Fired it up worked perfectly So that's another thing and I've had that just happen one time Ever but it happened This is crazy, isn't it? So that's what you've really got to be mindful of it's just so much Congestion I'd call it and this is afterwards. Let's check out some after shots. This is that whole zone, right? Isn't it? Yeah Yeah, there they are. There's the fresh soldered points. There's one 586 581 That one there they all are I changed them There's the caps New caps fresh caps Fresh capacitors for your tv More fresh capacitors Now also if you ever have an issue you can come back and look And um, see if you did anything wrong If I came back here and looked and said, oh look I installed one of those capacitors backwards. That's why it's not working You'd be able to see it Here's the neck board a little bit different on this neck board, but it is similar You noticed how there was three ic's on the other neck, but well, this just has three regulators that are pretty small three-legged And they have heat sinks a little bit simpler design, but Also similar And again Other than replacement of those four Hey grail other than replacement of those four capacitors You're gonna need to go in here and reflow all the solder on your components on this board Pardon see there's those ic's let's talk about smaller much easier to source more generic That's those I don't want to add a note today. Hey, there you go. Say goodbye to those old Those old 27 year old capacitors Now if you have any questions about how a neck board works, this is a good time This is your crt socket This is where your power goes in to the neck board At other side, that's how you adjust your main horizontal static convergence On the crt. Here's the other side another good look at those regulators Mount up And this is a shot where I've Obviously reflow the solder and I'm just getting ready to install the new capacitors. I guess Yep sideways photo There you go new caps cleaned up pretty new caps Oh, that's beautiful lovely caps blurry There you go. See that solder. You know fresh and Amazing that is like this neck board. Well goodness last 30 40 years now without issue There's the power supply. Let's look at this a little bit Skip ahead. So the power supply is one unit Got a nice shell on it And this time either look at these big caps, man Yep, replace them all. There's the cap cap behind there This is an expensive one to recap these caps are expensive I say some of them are upwards of like seven or eight dollars each those big ones But full recap on this board Full recap everything new Those big caps are not cheap This one right here. I guarantee it's seven or eight dollars These are nudes is a pvm nudes Safe day. Look at this. This has to get full soldering flow. There's a lot of heat a lot going on here. You got conversion from ac to dc to Other types to get power coming in And all this is getting lovely. Just I love it. I love giving that fresh solder and cleaning those boards. They look so nice There you go. I just love making it making it look so good back in Pieced back together clean it all out Clean it all out Where's everything cleaned up? Where's that lovely power supply? neckboard deflection yoke baby this one This is the problem with the m-series is they don't all have the great deflection yokes There's no fine tuning the convergence with this yoke I mean you got the yoke rings That you can make adjustments to but this whole contraption up here can't be adjusted There's yoke rings. I had to reapply the adhesive there They'll just everything looking clean reset to be put back together Piece of mind photographs is what these are called. This is when I am just getting ready to go and get some Signal and power put into it. There you go There's no issues the red green and blue lines Let's take a quick closer look at this convergence Let's see if we can find a corner that's not as tight as Look at that. So that's a good example, right? So you saw how clean that 20.05 got that convergence You're gonna like find this more in the medical versions See how this is separated a little bit. We've got a little bit of creep Creeping here of the red gun. So that leaves us with the blue and green lined up in the red bleeding over In the corner, but that's there's you can only get these to a certain point Let's see if it's any better. Usually see this is pretty clean there This is after being adjusted clean in the middle. It's always clean in the middle Clean So, yeah, it's about one corner generally Is there ads on their buried bits? I don't know sometimes YouTube's really changed like ad placement stuff. I don't have any idea Whether there's uh, how often it puts them. I'm sorry. You can use it. I don't know if you're even allowed to use an ad blocker anymore There it is finished up Now I did get To use Some Replacement badge. There's a replacement badge down here Hey mark, how you doing? Shadow mask welcome There I did use a replacement badge Which was just a really quality Really high quality, uh But yeah, see something here's the deal. I mean, I don't really care about let's talk about ads Because I always know that if I don't put ads there's a good chance that youtube will not Push my stuff at all So I don't make a bunch of money from ads usually. I mean it is a decent It's a it's a drop in the whole bucket as far as like a business is concerned All right, that's it for the 20m too So that's it So here's the deal. I think that's what I'm going to do That sucks. All right, I'm gonna try to do this Because I've maybe maybe there's some change setting that has been changed. Sorry about moving that Maybe there's some setting that's got changed when I Since I haven't streamed in a while I'm gonna try to put the next one on as many as few sorry not many as few ads as possible Okay, sorry about that. I don't know like I pay for that YouTube premium as a part of a business expense. Thank you very bits But yeah, I I'm gonna I'll I'll go in there and I'll manually put it as low as possible, especially for the stuff coming up Because it's not that big of a deal on the live streams now as far as the videos go Whatever happens on there. I can't really do but the live streams. I think I still can limit that goodness Yes, so Let's get in. Let's get ready for to have some fun We're gonna do it if you want to come back man. Hang out if you really want to know Where everything's happening Follow me on twitter or x and you can see and it's just I don't know usa retro and you can find my account on the youtube channel here if you just go and look at my other links on my youtube channel and Go follow me there and I'll keep everything more up to date on there and then Look for live streams to come this week and okay Do at least one hopefully two and then like I want to do like some cool sit-down Podcasts with him where we can have some really good and deep conversations to split up into some episodes And then we're gonna go around town. I'm gonna show them some really weird Uh hillbilly. Thank you belmont. There's a link in the chat for the retro. We're gonna do some hillbilly food Uh trying and I'm gonna take him on some crazy things Yeah, it's showing up The twitter link show. Well, I don't know it shows up for me because you should be able to do it since you're uh A blue wrench holder Anyway, thanks belmont. Thanks del. Thank you Everybody else who showed up in the chat today And showed up for the show and I will see you all next time. Have a great have a great evening But I'll see you next time with zez. That's right Have a great