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jask
Joined: 17 Mar 2006
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Location: kamloops BC
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: how to fix pattern wear on NEC tubes!! |
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I have been trying some things to try to "save" some tubes from my PG and had a brainstorm last night.
When I was a kid one of the local kids wrecked his colour TV by sticking a magnet against the screen- the area under the magnet developed a permanent discolouration. I have a couple tubes that have lots of life left,but were set up small and burnt (lightly...) enough that the discolouration made me replace them. last night it hits me! all I need to do is hold a magnet up to the tube face and move it around to "paint" over the non-burnt area and even it out.The only problem was the damn glycol chamber, so I cut it off!! only took about 2 HOURS!! then I realize that the tube is going to explode if I fire it up without coolant.....so
( I have pictures of this, I will resize and post)
I turn the projector on its side, get a deep glass casserole dish full of water and set the tube in the pan, totally freaked about getting fried by the high voltage, I check the chasis to water with my multimeter ( nada!)and after a couple deep breaths slip my hand into the water with a 1 inch round super magnet that usually lives on the fridge( and is strong enough to hold a copy of Time magazine to the fridge!) so there I am looking up through the bottom of the pan and I can SEE the burn from the magnet and as I move it around the edge of the pattern wear (raster lit up) it is sort of hard to get right to the edge evenly so I just sort of "scrubbed" over the hard edge area, so now the transition is less obvious. it was getting late by this point so I took a few last pics and crashed. but it looks like it will work!!
I just need to resize these before and afters and I will post them. 
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Joust
Joined: 05 May 2006
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Location: Almonte, Ontario, Canada
TV/Projector: Marquee 8501LC
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:26 am Post subject: |
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wanna buy a bridge?
had to get that one in just before midnight eh? 
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jask
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:44 am Post subject: |
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files are still too big... I am just going to reshoot the after close-up at lower res. the befores look pretty grainy but you will get the idea
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jask
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o.k. here you go:
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jask
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:58 am Post subject: |
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hold on......
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jask
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| Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:59 am Post subject: |
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here we go:
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Fujifrontier
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meh
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kschmit2
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Dunno what to make of this post as the opening post says "Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:15 am" for me 
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Heywood Jablome
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| kschmit2 wrote: | | Dunno what to make of this post as the opening post says "Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:15 am" for me |
Kamloops, BC is on the left coast. AVS' server(s) is/are on the right coast, aboot four hours in the future, eh...
--Edit... this is not AVS, this is curtpalme.com... Where ARE the servers?
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-- Baron Alexander von Humboldt: 1769-1859
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dculberson
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I think it shows your local time as of when it was posted. I could be wrong. But it asks for your time zone in your profile.
I'm GMT - 5 Hours. So for me it says "Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:15 pm." Since Jask is in BC, he'd be GMT - 7 hours = 8:15 pm..? I don't know if they do daylight savings. Whatever. My point is, it was April 1st for him when he posted it.
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jask
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It was an April fools post.... and it was still before midnight locally 
I am not entirely sure but I thought the forum clock defaulted to GMT if you did not select local time
EDIT: on the lower right of the page...... "all posts are GMT plus....."
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kschmit2
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says "All times are GMT" here
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jask
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oh yeah..... same here!!
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