Anyone know what a ms2930 and original tube go for?

[tengugurl]

Hi all!
I have a ms2930 that I cleaned up and recapped.
Replaced the transistors and everything. Thinking about selling it.

Probably needs a neck pcb replacement.
The Red trimmer pot doesn’t do anything and I have spent a lot of time diagnosing and am about ready to throw in the towel and put in a wells monitor that I have as a replacement.

Just curious what these go for.
I see the ms2930 chassis going for ~$150-200 and the tube, that part idk? This has been cleaned and recapped so that’s prob a bonus

I may use the original tube with a d9200 or just say screw it and use the original d9200 tube and keep the cage/chassis mount so I can put it in my blast.

Thanks!
Guess I am asking if there is a market for these?
If so, what’s a good price. Going to keep the cage/monitor frame so I can back mount a new monitor.

 

[GeekMan1222]

There is a market for these tubes and practically any tubes these days.. and you should definitely keep it or find a buyer for it if the emissions on the gun assembly are still good etc etc.

Chassis's yes I would say go for anywhere from 150 to 250 USD
The Tube is another matter. I think a tube and chassis combo can fetch around the ball park of 350 maybe more but it really depends on the condition and model etc etc.

Basically you gotta remember that the reason most people would want one is to have a spare or a replacement so for a loose tube it is likely to be more subjective to condition to the buyer.

The chassis should be able to get sold fairly easily.



You might be able to save this though for your own uses, it sounds like you tried a number of things already.

Are you just missing the red color entirely? If so have you tried using another chassis or a tube tester to confirm the issue is actually on your chassis and neck board and not some kind of failure in the Red color gun or its pin on the back of the tube neck?

Maybe its an input related issue? Did you try both RGB and VGA inputs?

There's also supposedly a trick you can also do, if you dont have a tube tester or working spare chassis, ( cant remember exactly how it works) but you basically short the red cathode pin to ground?
It will drive the red gun on the tube at full blast. You only do this for a very very short period to confirm the gun works. I dont know if this is something that should be done on all models but just throwing out stuff I seen and heard, never tried it personally. Would definitely read up on that before trying it though.

Alternatively you usually should be able to see glow from all 3 of the metal cups of the color cathodes in the neck of the tube, sometimes its tricky to see it.

Anyways hopefully this is all useful info or maybe something extra to think about to maybe get it running again.

 

[mR_CaESaR]

Wish you were in AU - I would glady purchase the tube from you

 

[Anselmo]

I'd buy it! Working those chassis can go for 300+. Not Working, tough to say.. For context last year I sold that exact tube only for 200 in so Cal, and it sold really fast.