CRT madness!

I'm guessing yes but its hard to tell ,cant see it well enough to know if the vacuum is gone, the pins normally protrude after the vacuum so may be ok,cant really tell if the parts afterwards are just guides rather than part of the "tube". Its hard try to put this into the right written words this morning !

Yeah basically a hail mary alright ,if you are hooking it up power for like 1/2 second and you could tell, If noting major happens could go for 1-2 seconds then and so on ,you could get a bit arching if it was really open and vacuum gone ! but un-likley hence the brief power up at 1st. I'm sure there is other ways to test if it still as a vacuum but plugging it in is probably the easiest for me anyway ! 😂 A lot of these old cabs have arching monitors !! 🤔

its hard to tell from the pics (for me anyway ), it could be compromised further down from the boxes weight om it. some necks have just gone from changes in temp with no really visable crack.

Different tubes finish off the end slightly differently the seal normally happens before the pins protrude so there is that hope

Teknoservice above in Spain. Best repair guy in Europe for sure. Highly recommend.

Ah jaysus haha, right in the feels too.

There are unfortunately a lot of lonely dudes in Japan. A lot of them don't really have friends and definitely don't go near western tourists, it's actually really frustrating if you're into meeting people while away.

I did a bit of a group tour for a few days while I was there in October and ended up befriending the tour guide, dude my own age who grew up in 90s Japanese arcades. Immediately hit it off.

After the trip was over we ended up just sticking with him and getting up to all kinds of antics. Was really amazing tbh. Experiences you wouldn't have there in a million years normally as a westerner in Japan just off the plane.

Still keep in touch now and send packages back and forth full of bits and pieces. I do get the impression though that he's really lonely. There can be something extremely isolating with the culture if you don't tow the line, become a salaryman or are in any way not the status quo.

It was unbelievably lucky to be honest! There's a real culture of not wanting to bother people so nobody really engages with folks they don't know. Couple that with the language barrier and you can get a bit lonely as a tourist. A lot of the time you actually feel a like you're being put in the 'gaijin corner' away from the regulars in restaurants and bars.

To go from that to suddenly having a nice Japanese person with great English to talk to, and not only that but really eager to bring us to places well away from tourist traps was pretty magical.

As to be expected, he absolutely massacred me in every Street Fighter 2 game we played (and I'd been bloody practicing my CE game before going away!)

I've done something similar with an RGB-Pi scart adapter and Kodi.

Streaming stuff to a CRT is a bit surreal but fun at the same thing.

Even stuff that looks pixelated when upscaled to 1080p / 4k on modern TVs looks perfect on the crt.

Was only watching adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and Married with Children on the CRT a few weeks ago.

Spotting old TVs on Daft - Looks like a 40-inch Toshiba RP CRT.

https://www.daft.ie/for-sale/detached-house-glebe-house-woodenbridge-co-wicklow/5598785

That was really interesting, never heard of that operation at all.

Crazy that they were importing the tubes from the UK to assemble the TVs here and then exporting the TVs back to London. Wonder did they ever get any contracts to sell in Ireland in the end?

Mental:

Needs more cowbell hotglue :D