Sad day unfortunately… the tube gets dimmer and dimmer by the day 🙁 🙁
Here you can see just how dim the tube is compared to my other blast. I had to turn off the light on the top left (tired tube side) as you wouldn’t have been able to see any image on screen 🙁
Now I’m on the hunt for a replacement tube – Joey said he’s got a couple of tubes that are 100% on the crt tester, but it’s getting it from Perth to Sydney that would pose the biggest challenge. The eastern states, I can organise Bill, but from Perth is a little more challenging.
My options are:
- Find a proper blast city tube A68LBT696X (2931 tube) or A68KZN696X (2930 tube)
- Find a donor tube in one of the following consumer tvs and do a yoke swap
- Toshiba super crystal 2988UE
- NEC SF-6804
- Symphonic model ST427F (don’t think this is found in Australia,think this is an American only brand)
- Find an NEC XM29 PVM which is apparently a direct swap – yoke and all! But doing this would probably cost way more than the price of the cab 😀
Somehow, I think it might be a while before I get this cab back to 100%
Another alternative could be install an MS9 (back mounted) and live with the bezel gap, or if I find a flat screen, install that. Either way, it’s going to take some patience (which I’m not normally good with :D)
