hey @Hatsune Mike try contacting sharp image see if they can ether fix or make you a new monitor
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Process of fixing necked tube is far too involved and costly for something as common as ms9. Only really makes sense for very rare vintage tubes for restoration. Just have to replace it.
edit: here you see process of involve.
edit: here you see process of involve.
My buddy's company designs and produces packaging for some of the biggest companies in the world. So if anything was in prototype phase or pre-production, would be bad if their products that haven't hit the street yet show up on an internet forum. Some serious NDA's would be violated. They also produce corporate specialty items for whatever commemorative events such companies have.
I was talking to Cereth and a faithful repoduction of that panel has been in the works for a while. Takes access to lots of specialty tools and skills to do repro such a thing. It just so happens my buddy has such resources and professional artists at his disposal who may be able to move the effort along. I'll talk to him about it when he gets back next month.
- If you were in the group buy and made the deposit to XeD
- You drew the short straw with the E2's and are allocated the one with the busted illuminated panel
- And regardless if you settled for a fair refund with XeD
I have no skin in this. I just think that XeD did us all a huge solid and would like to pay it forward.
Man, wish those guys were still in operation. I think they were the last US based shop doing this.
The Windy doesn't have frame surrounding the tube but the tube mount does have handles making the removal process easy.
I did a spit take.
seriously though you should keep all that someone might need extras.
ChuChu Flamingo
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That was for a NOS one iirc. Anyone paying that much for a used yellowed one is an idiot. Vast majority of them have yellowing simply due to the fluorescent lighting behind them cooking them.
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Auspiciously low.
If put out some conservative projections out there and say, this cab got X many coins per day, breaks out to this:
- 100 coins/day = 17 days on site
- 50 coins/day = 35 days on site
- 10 coins/day = 174 days on site.
Here are some pics:
No burn to speak of!
Looks good from here.
And here.
Here too.
Not so much here though. I'll live.
Pane shot!
Ok, now for the
Notice how the chassis looks NOS, but there is some dirt on the VGA connector? Weird. Yaton is known to swap out stuff out of his cabs to get max equity on his stuff. And there are plenty of Toshiba chassis on his eBay page.
None of this mattered though once I turned on the monitor and degaussed it.
Wow! I was floored by the image. @300wins and I have been messaging about picking up his remote board for the Toshiba PF. But I didn't get such a chassis. I can't imagine how much better this tube would look if it had a Toshiba PF chassis. 300wins tells me the Toshiba beats the Sanwa in that it handles sync better if used with different boards. I believe him. But as of right now, it would take a compelling reason for me to invest another $200 into getting the Toshiba PF chassis and the remote board. Hopefully, I can investigate with 300wins if a chassis swap will work on this tube. He and I are both in San Jose. So if it doesn't get that far, at least I can see what a Toshiba PF chassis looks like in action.
I haven't yet seen this at 15khz. I have to sort through the rats nest and figure out wiring first. But man, if 15khz looks anything like 31khz............man, fuck the Egret II. I should have picked up two NNC's.
The rat's nest was just tossed in there. Wasn't wired to anything. But taking it out was akin to Alexander the Great's challenge of the Gordian Knot! I didn't want to rip something out that I shouldn't have so it took me 20 minutes plus this is my first experience with a JVS cab.
So anyone in this buy that has never experienced this cab before, just look for the yellow, white, brown cables, and VGA cables that come off the sound amp. Free those out and the nest comes right out. Looks like the nest has some JVS-to-JAMMA stuff. I totally dunno if that is standard with a NNC and it will be a while before I can figure out the wiring. But it was all loose and pulled out after some sorting.
.........@jugu is actually a good dude.
The NNC in 15khz blows all my other cabinets out of the water in every aspect. Sega Astro, blast, American cabinet w/ WG monitor, they just can't even compare to the NNC. The only problem with the NNC is it's awkward looking body style.
Looking good @acblunden2. of my NNC I think my lowest is the the 30s or 60s and my highest is in the 3k. I don't really understand that rat nest because it took them like 3 days to convert them back to 110V..... I guess they took long coffee breaks haha
I have a Toshiba chassis. I’ve never seen a Sanwa pfx in person, but I’ve heard nothing but good things about their picture quality. I strongly believe if you were to put the two monitors side by side though, the difference would be minimal
BanishingFlatsAC
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Yeah, the $800 one was NOS. I said that in a follow up post.
Same here, love the Toshi PF in 15K, even next to a MS9
I think you are right. Can't imagine how much better this can look. 300wins tells me the difference is the Sanwa is temperamental at 15khz with different sync standards from various boards. He says both have excellent image quality. He has both.
300wins is a really cool kat too. Helped me a ton in the past few days answering my questions.
Man, when they told you NOS originally, I think they meant the NNC's. The barn-yard find, the diamond in the rough, the overlooked masterpiece that was won at minimum bid in the auction within this group buy was the NNC's. If you were one of the 9 that got one of the NNC's, you lucked out. 1,700 coins in mine. Your highest in the 3,000 range. These can't get any newer. Someone should buy all the rest of Yaton's NNC's.
Blah, I think most of it was the 220v step-down AC wiring. I think those things can be tossed out. I'll figure out the JVS-to-JAMMA stuff eventually. But the value in it for me isn't high since I got a 15khz Egret II out of all of this.
I'll go to my buddy's business on Thursday to test out the E2 and Windy II and get you guys the low down then.
I'm waiting for rewrite to wake up and mess with our cabs.
