 Hey, welcome to Retro Tech. My name is Steve and it's been an awfully long time since we've done any type of a vlog video here And so I decided that's what we're doing today. We're gonna go on a trip We're gonna go to the Retro World Expo and check out this convention So before we do that, please do me a favor hit the like button for the algorithm and let's get ready for the trip All right, so I've got my stuff all packed up here and this is what I'll be bringing this year to the Retro World Expo All right, so down here just a quick look. I've got my Wonderful BK467 analyzer. I've got a BVM D9. I've got some amazing Tools consoles and oh, sorry the manuals of course the manuals for the B&O MX5000 they're gonna go back to their owner as well as the B&O MX5000 CRT That's right here and the owner of this is picking this up from the Retro World Expo convention So we'll be able to take this with us get rid of it while we're there at the convention All right, I'm also bringing my lovely white KV9 here, which everybody loves I've got a Sony 9L2 here some cabling so I can steal power from somebody and I will bring a jam box To listen to some tunes. All right, I've got all my gear ready, but my vehicle is not ready We're gonna go rent a car for this trip and it's a pretty interesting place. We have to pick this car up I just can't rent a car in my town here. I have to go to the cornfield airport Well, here we are in the middle of cornfields and we're about to be at The place I have to go to rent rental cars All right, here we go. We're turning in to cornfield Airport, that's right. We've arrived in the cornfield airport here and Now I can pick up my rental car All right, I was able to get that awesome van here from the rental place So this lovely hybrid brand new minivan is now loaded with all our gear Everything we need to take with us CRTs the big ones tied up to the back of the captain's chair in the middle row With a rope and a bunch of other stuff. Hopefully everything makes it there now. Let's hit the road to Connecticut Man, I just survived a seven and a half hour drive through the northeast and The van is still here. Let's make sure nothing broke. So it looks like everything's good We'll have to check this later. This is the B&O. I think it's fine though All right, welcome in. This is the first day of the retro world expo We're a little bit before the actual expo opens to the public So we're gonna get a chance to go around while it's still calm and check out some things I want to show some of these cool vendors that I found just walking around. There's one guy who has an amazing CRT setup. I just have to show you guys this So check this out. This is from retro games plus. How cool is this video wall? You guys just love I love this KV-9 It's a lovely Panasonic and this guy His name's Steve also, but he he loves these consumer sets. Maybe he's in the booth later. We'll come talk to him Very cool MGA Mitsubishi look at that one You are watching a laser disc Look at that laser disc demo and This might be the coolest CRT I've seen so far. Look at this Toshiba the FST black stripe and Check this out if you push this Look at that. The remote comes out. How awesome is that? I absolutely love that TV So that's it. It's about 20 inches On top we got a cool little Magnavox. This is a Panasonic. It kind of looks odd. Mr. Rogers Very cool, huh? So that's right next to the main entrance here. How awesome is that right when you walk in? You can look to the left and see all those great CRTs. Let's check this out This is cool. Got a bit of a museum here Of old old items. Oh look, this is for Roger. Look at that. Eat your heart out Look at that one. The Nintendo Channel F Very cool I've never seen a studio 2 by RCA. Look at this Bailey's home computer. It looks like some kind of gambling machine Look at that I'm a businessman Awesome Ah, there we go. We need there to be a CRT in the museum The Vectrix Very cool For the show opens. Let's go see what else is going on. Oh look at this This is cool. Some painted TVs. Look at this Look at that. How awesome is that all those converters That's hilarious. Nice JVC down there Ultimate gamer challenge. They of course have CRTs up there Some more CRTs Oh, this one looks nice. People are always asking what's a good. Look at that good flip. Nice sharp signal Here's another one, Sylvania So where they're going to do a Tetris tournament or something. Look at this old JVC. What's this one? Good. How you doing? Well, I'm more interested in the tubes Yeah, that's what I work on Yeah All right, so we're over here in the arcades and then like retro gaming set up here and um We're going to look at one thing before everybody gets in here and it gets too crazy Because that is this Look at this With the original OEM stand, let's turn this on and see Oh, yeah, can you see that in there? Probably not very well Look at works There it is virtual boy. I have tennis. Can you see that in there? Very cool So that's definitely awesome. So we got arcade machines here. Obviously. We got a lot of CRTs. I love this one crystal castles It's just got such a cool-looking cabinet, especially when you get this Atari part right here Oh the tempest Some stern pinballs Oh my somebody brought One two three four five six seven candy cabs Holy moly Those are beautiful I found some pvms And some circuit boards. I bet del knows what's going on with this So we'll meet up with del from delusionals arcade here in a little bit and we'll see what's going on with those pvms But just a lot of great machines here and they're literally about to turn Turn the lights on fully and open the doors to the crowd I love pinballs Well, it's only been about 20 minutes and bob's already got me working for him here in the booth We're starting on his 14 l 5 that You can tell it's got a gash here. Is that gash? It's the first thing we're gonna do is remove this overlay But I forgot my knife So bob has to go find a knife and then we're gonna Remove that overlay and actually transport some boards in here too that aren't working That's it Come on, baby Come on, baby Look at there Oh, so technically And now this one we're just removing the out we did get a little residue though. The scratch is gone. Well, that's step one All right, everybody, that's unfortunately all the real footage I had from day one After we got done removing the overlay on the 14 l 5 I had to open the back of the setup and actually get the main Chassis or board out of there because there was an issue that we just couldn't figure out and bob had a replacement board from a salvaged unit so I was able to install that And thankfully after installing that I did get The pvm to boot up and it worked and worked perfectly And no longer displayed any of the issues and here are some photographs of that pvm working and looking great I do want to thank chris aka the displace gamer for helping me with some of these pictures you see And also lou from lou's retro source both in the booth and helped out with some photographs Okay, after that we moved on to a 20 inch consumer CRT television that bob had brought in I think it was an rca or a panasonic And we hooked up the b and k 467 tube tester to it Did a tube analysis actually the green gun was a little bit weak. So we cleaned and balanced that line Live there for everybody, but unfortunately I couldn't find any photographs or pictures or videos of that But it was a fun process and there were some people that are probably watching this video They got to see it live in person, but that's pretty much it for day one after that was all done The booths kind of closed up about 6 p.m. And we went back to the hotel And had a little fun and then got up and got ready for day two Well, somehow bob suckered me around into staying a little bit longer than I had planned to so I'm here on the last day And it's real early in the morning. It's about an hour and a half before the Convention opens, I believe the only problem is I'm trying to work on some more stuff for bob like These d-series nine inch bvms But I'm having a hard time concentrating because I have attempted to just go jump on this amazing nba jam cabinet and What makes that what's so special is that it actually has like the jordan rom hack So you can play as michael jordan, you know in that version that they hack together But so I'm having a real hard time concentrating, but I'm going to try to fix this bvm d9 for bob So frankly I can get out of here get on the road because I got to drive all the way back to virginia today and return that rental van That's full of crt's now So i'm going to get back to work and then I'll be back in a second and we'll do one last round up of this Amazing convention center and then we'll probably get out of here. All right, so for day two I did get to repair bob's little bvm d9 It was having some troubles where it was losing colors It would intermittently work and this all came down to bad solder joints on the neck board And as you can tell from these pictures the solder was very bad and thankfully del Also known as delusionals arcade was in the arcade area and had a secret solder station Located behind a couple of arcade games and I was able to go get in that solder station It actually fixed this whole card for bob and the d9 worked perfectly after that No problems there. It was all just an issue of that board having very poor solder So I was happy to get that done. I did take a quick look around the floor again Just checked out those crt's that we saw at the beginning of the show In that ultimate gamer challenge. There were some people getting in on that tournament then and But outside of that little footage you see I actually had to pack up and head back To virginia. So I had to go drive about seven and a half hours after Being at the show till I'd say 2 p.m I had to head south so I could get back. All right. So there are a lot of things that Really make these trips special, you know, you get to see some really cool setups with different crt's you get to see some amazing arcade games pinballs Retro game stuff all that's great But at the end of the day really the best part about all of this is getting to see the people And I had just an amazing time interacting with so many of you guys who watch the show And support the channel. I really enjoyed speaking with everybody There was just some great conversations about how many of you have become, you know, inspired to do things as far as getting into crt repair and refurbishment And anything, you know, it was just great to have conversations with everybody and hear about all of your different crt's that you own I really have a great time. And of course, I love seeing everybody that is kind of in our network here I guess you'd say in retro I had a great time seeing chris tito simian and lu and of course bob And everybody else that I met there for the first time was just an awesome weekend And I hope that I can do it again next year. I'll try to do it again next year But now I've got to get ready for the next show, which is when I always do a vlog for also So that would be the next vlog you probably see will be for the music city multicon That's coming up at the end of october This year and should be a lot of fun. It will have some more familiar faces From the retro scene actually at that convention too. And again, if you really did enjoy the video Please do me a favor and hit the like button And I will see you all next time with some more retro content You