[game_preservation] Fwd: End of the arcade CRT monitor

[Jim Leonard]

I visited again yesterday and had another opportunity to meet the owner 
(especially after I broke the arcade's high score for Track and Field 
;-) and he mentioned that he has very strong feelings about arcade 
repair and has been replacing LCDs with CRTs where he can find them, and 
has also been buying broken cabinets where the CRT is working but little 
else is, just to get the CRT.  He mentioned that sometimes existing CRTs 
can be repaired due to something simple, so some repair is attempted. 
Also, he makes a decision on how bad a CRT is before he scraps it -- 
some burn-in is allowed, some gamma shift is allowed.  So the basic 
answer to the question is "harvesting".  He harvests CRTs whenever he 
can.  He feels very strongly that the machines were meant to be 
experienced with as much original hardware as possible, something I 
wholeheartedly endorse.

I asked him about how easy it was to retrofit traditional TV tubes into 
arcade cabinets and he said that his experience with doing that was not 
very successful.  He only seeks out tubes that have been used in an 
arcade setting.

On 7/6/2012 4:14 PM, Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> If it helps we (at the museum in the UK) need TV's for our old computers

> (authenticity as you are both saying!). We luckily have now got a TV

> repair man (or someone who knows enough), and luckily no need for buying

> in expensive parts for kit like arcade machines as such though, just

> portable and normal TV's right now.

>

> I'd say good luck to those guys fixing them, going to be harder and

> harder now :(

>

> Andrew

>

> On 06/07/2012 22:08, Jim Leonard wrote:

>> On 7/3/2012 12:19 AM, Jim Leonard wrote:

>>> I'm going to Galloping Ghost Arcade tomorrow, and I'd be happy to ask

>>> and report back.  (They have over 300+ functioning coin-ops.)

>>

>> Unfortunately the owners were not in so I was unable to gather any

>> significantly useful information.  The one person who was there

>> mentioned that they take broken CRTs to "a local repair guy" where

>> they are repaired, so I'm led to believe that they are repairing the

>> tubes as well as trying to find replacements at a local recycling center.

>

>

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