Date   : Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:10:49
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: Microvitec CUBs

astravan@... wrote:

> There's 7 CUBs, and due to what would appear to be poor long-term
> storage in farm outbuildings, they're marginal at best. List of
> problems so far: jittery pictures, purple or blue tints, squeal
> noises, odd vertical linearity, bad focus, total loss of horizontal
> sync, over-bright picture/non-functional contrast knob. All of them
> have slightly vase-shaped pictures.
>
> Which leads to my question: what do I do with them? I don't know a
> great deal about fixing monitors, although I've adjusted a few in the
> past.

I see Sprow has sent you the service manual.  I'd encourage you to try
fixing them, providing you're careful about the EHT etc, because they're
easy to work on.  Take off the back cover, and remove the screws holding
the top section of the case (including two or three holding it to the
front bezel) and you'll find almost everything is easy to access.  I
used to run a Microvitec service centre and I still have the service
manuals -- both the original stapled book, and the later ring-bound
version.  There's a good fault-finding chart in there.

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Pete                                            Peter Turnbull
                                                Network Manager
                                                University of York