Corrosive glue nearly killed this monitor (IBM 9" VGA)

#troubleshooting #repair #ibm #crtrejuvenation
Time for another repair! This rare and adorable little IBM monochrome VGA monitor was dead on arrival. I can't get enough of little CRTs, especially high resolution ones like this, so I knew I had to attempt a repair. As you can see by the thumbnail, the monitor works now. It ended up having a fault that was a little unexpected.
IBM 9" VGA CRT
Type 4707
P/N 09F2005
Rejuvenator:
B&K 490B / Konig TR 850
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[@zero0ryn]

Adrian, When I worked doing repairs we had a saying "It's never the chip, Always the Cap". We also used to say that "The more legs it has the less likely it would be to be faulty"

[@Xalior]

Oh, you missed an oppertunity there 0rin! "The more legs it has the less likely it is to fall over!" ;-) -Dx

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

"The more legs it has the less likely it would be to be faulty"

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

That "brown gunk" is universally known as "tan glue of death" in the repair field, because in new condition it's tan/beige in color and as it degrades it turns more and more brown-ish. Ontop of that it gets hygroscopic (absorbs moisture) which can lead to shorts especially when used in switchmode PSUs, blowing them up. Manufacturers usually used this stuff to hold thru-hole components to the board before soldering. Best practice is to get rid of all of it when fixing a device

[@whstark]

So true is that , allot of it , even almost lost a job over it when in a SVHS deck and called vendor and they acknowledged it. It's in allot of old things and is bad. The Mitsubishi TV oil leaking in caps is the worst. all the tv's leaked oil on caps and corroded pcb boards , some in shop could smell the burning oil as replaced. some times Old flux can cause leakage and cause a problem. SO clean the board before jumping to a no fix condition. That repair would have been a 180 dollar REPAIR at 60 per hour plus parts. It's more per hour now that was cheep. Sad but true. some antique car radios 200 or more. Well I got it still do . Love old tape decks and Console stereo's, and 20's radios. Also welcome to the bad cap thing, I had a large inventory at work of caps, car radio's shorted caps tantalum ones, amps old, new baked in cabinets, always got 105 deg caps to replace so id never see what i fixed back to me, Put 50 or more in a a amp all bad. Also no to mention is the bad cap era. Some manufacture got the wrong formula to make caps. electrolytic Caps are temp and hours rated go see spec sheets also the power rating if in a power supply. so be care in selecting replacement. 55 years of it, broadcast 3 tube cameras, sony Video real to real to to 1 in with pizeo head tracking, on and on, to digital typesetters from auto-logic and beyond, to uni buss and PDP 11 macro programing.

[@stevebabiak6997]

At 21:00, the capacitor that is being glued down does not have venting on the top of its can (the venting will look like slices). That means it is made to vent on the PCB side - and that glue might prevent venting in case the capacitor experiences some fault condition. Not so good design there.

[@SomeMorganSomewhere]

We call it "Gorilla Snot" here...

[@Knaeckebrotsaege]

@@whstark Wow... word salad

[@kilianhekhuis]

@@Knaeckebrotsaege It gets progressively worse :D

[@guarenchafa4912]

I replaced so many of these as an ex-IBM Service Rep. They were quite popular as a bank teller console which did not take up too much room on their banking stations. I did also see them used in point of sale stations but not often, probably due to the high cost of these units.

[@darkwinter6028]

Yeah, it kinda figures that banks would have, ya know, money. 😉

[@TimPerfetto]

Oh yes

[@thomaseller3866]

Regarding the one-color color input and the missing red and blue signals, there should be a feature in the VGA standard which is translating the red and blue colors to green. I remember that with my first monochrome monitor i needed to execute a DOS utility which switched something inside the graphics card and made the image quality much better.

[@repatch43]

There aren't many people in the world who would spend SO much of their time to restore an item like this. FANTASTIC job!

[@IBM_Museum]

As you may have discovered, the small VGA monitor (without the base) was used with the IBM Wheelwriter for the high-end models - but, as others have commented, the IBM 47xx-series is for the "Finance Communication System".

[@StarkRG]

Adrian: Brings out the CRT rejuvenator. Me: Oh, no, not the CRT Killer 2000! Glad it worked out well this time, though

[@thebyteattic]

When the system remains powered off for decades, the oxide layer in the electrolytic capacitors can crack (it's the voltage applied during normal usage that constantly reconstitutes the oxide). If you then turn the system on, current leaks through the cracks in the oxide; and depending on the voltage applied, there can be so much current leak that it shatters the oxide layer. Since the electrolyte is conductive, at this point the capacitor just becomes a short. This is actually quite common.

[@SonicBoone56]

Interesting. Never heard of that!

[@UnitSe7en]

Great post. Powering up long-dormant electronics can be the thing that destroys them.

[@squirlmy]

@@UnitSe7en yes, and looking for vintage computers on eBay can be really cringe-inducing; hearing in the descriptions people powering things up with absolutely no clue. I'll be happy if computer repair people can someday start making money consulting people with their "antiques", testing power supplies and inspecting caps and such before needlessly frying mainboards.

[@mfbfreak]

This is mostly a problem in tube equipment because of the high voltages involved. A filter capacitor can start out with 20mA of leakage current at 200v, and end up with less than 1mA at 200v. When hooked up directly to the voltage, it'll boil dry and/or piss electrolyte all over the chassis. For transistor equipment, the voltages involved are so low that usually, if a cap is leaky, the cap will reform in circuit because the leakage resistance is too big for destructive currents to flow, or just stay as bad as it was. Using a current limited power supply at the full voltage is the right way to go.

[@zsombor_99]

It's interesting how just one bad capacitor can prevent the whole thing from working! 😨

[@OzzFan1000]

You really need to sell some t-shirts with your logo and "It freakin' works!" I'd buy one.

[@twogitsinacar4811]

Generally speaking the term "B+" is a forgotten term these days associated more with tube / valve equipment. It originally referred to the plate voltages on the tubes.

[@wbfaulk]

You may have missed the one vacuum tube that existed in this circuit.

[@EsotericArctos]

I still hear B+ used quite a lot. Given CRT's are tubes, I guess it is still relevant. B+ technically could be any positive voltage supply, but it is generally associated with the higher voltage lines.

[@EsotericArctos]

@@wbfaulk Adrian was referring to 12V as B+, this is not relevant to the CRT, but also not an uncommon use of B+ terminology.

[@wbfaulk]

@@EsotericArctos What? You don't think that it's running the CRT's "plate" off of 12V?

[@EsotericArctos]

@@wbfaulk LoL The Heater voltage is 2, but all the others would be higher. :P (except cathode of course) But technically B+ is any positive voltage, regardless of usage :). It just happens it was primarily used to differentiate between heater/cathode voltages and the higher voltages in tube days. :) Given the plate of a CRT is the "Anode" that is considerably more than 12 :)

[@tschak909]

The IBM 4707 was a financial terminal monitor, part of the 4700 family of parts. It was typically paired with e.g. a 4704 Model F style keyboard, of which, they came in 50, 62, 77, and 121 key varieties. The 50 key was a typical keyboard for doing 10-key entry.

[@sharktastica]

I have a 4707 and a 50-key keypad with an alphabetic layout, a fun pairing for photos as a cute mini system if I may add. Unfortunately though, my keypad isn't a Model F - I have the PS/2 compatible Model M version (P/N 1395249) presumably used with emulating or migrating from 4700 applications with PS/2 and later systems.

[@wacholder5690]

Hi ! The 4707 should have a brightness preset alongside the brightness front dial. In the factory they use differently sensible tubes and they adjusted them with brightness full open to a certain "lumen factor" with the preset as far as I recall. I only had these screens along with the bigger 8503 PS/2 monochrome on the workbench if e.g. cables got damaged or screen size was wrong -or- power supply blew up. Back in around 1990 I had the factory setup sheets for all 85xx monitors. The 4707 was a rare bird and was partially sold for server purposes along with a small size keyboard with integrated IBM Trackstick. The type number 47xx indicates that it belongs to the finance communication equipment line of machines. That was the gear used for banks to replace the IBM 3600 series machines in about 1981. This screen was also used for the IBM Wheelwriter 10 Series II typewriter (Model 6789) along with an external 3.5" / 720KB floppy drive.

[@jaybird57]

Dude, how the hell you remember all that from 30 years ago....damn. wow..

[@wacholder5690]

@@jaybird57 Hi ! My dementia isn't all that bad for now. I always had a problem remembering names since I was a kid, so it isn't that serious now at the age of 61 .... Err ... what were we talking about ? But seriously: I work as a computer-technician for over 40 years and about 34 years for the same actual company. It was - at a point - Germanys largest IBM systems dealer during the time of PS/2 machines and we had quite a few of them on the desk. Back then gear war really repaired, not only replaced or sub-assemblies changed. So my recollections are still quite good. I hope.

[@LMacNeill]

*Very* lucky that power-supply was designed as well as it was. A cheaper PSU would've just kept pumping that 15V into that shorted cap and eventually it would've taken out that chip, no doubt. But that PSU, sensing an overcurrent, essentially disconnected itself and stopped that from happening. Good job, IBM, with this design! And kudos to you for finding this issue and getting it fixed -- excellent video!!

[@nbntelevision1]

The tellers at my mother’s bank used these monitors. They were attached to PS/2 machines each linked by thicknet to an IBM 3090 downtown. I remember every year they had a software update I got to play on the 3090 and change the tapes. Truly my first computer.

[@godslayer1415]

Sorry but by then it would have been thinnet coax or IBM Token Ring. You did not get anywhere near the tapes.

[@AureliusR]

@@godslayer1415 And how do you know this? Were you there?

[@douro20]

Are you sure they ran thicknet all the way back to the mainframe? If they were running it such a long distance it would have to go through the telephone network using a T1 line.

[@nbntelevision1]

@@douro20 Thicknet locally, then it went downtown by other methods. The branches networked with the mainframe locally through thicknet, though.

[@squirlmy]

​@@godslayer1415 NBNTV explains below about "thicknet", and there were also a lot more small banks back before 2008. Why nitpick about that detail, and why assume that meant he didn't get near tapes, no matter what networking cabling involved? Why do you feel this deep seated need for putting people down? Does it have something to do with the militant, fundamentalist atheism you seem to espouse? ;P

[@smakfu1375]

That brown gunk is somewhat famous for becoming conductive over time, and causing shorts. From old amplifiers to CyberPower UPS’s, that stuff (whose name escapes me) is a plague.

[@russellhltn1396]

That brown goop is a well-known problem. When it turns dark brown, it absorbs moisture from the air and becomes a resistor. Depending on what it bridges, it can cause all kinds of issues.

[@antonnym214]

Wow, man. It's like something from a sci-fi horror movie. Attack of the Creeping Brown Gunk! Nice video. Good troubleshooting.

[@radio-ged4626]

Another nostalgia blast for me. I couldn't tell you how many of those I've fixed back in the '90s, must run into the hundreds. I didn't have circuit diagrams for them as they weren't released back then and I'm guessing they never were. It will be interesting to see how long that CRT lasts after rejuvenation. Thanks again for another entertaining repair video.

[@TheDiveO]

the label reads ">550V~", so this holds true for 14kV ... and would also for 300kV. Admittedly a slightly strange way to label it, but correct in some sense.

[@glen4cindy]

I was going to say that too. He missed the greater than symbol.

[@NozomuYume]

@@glen4cindy I was saying, that would be a good general high voltage warning -- they you're dealing with anything far in excess of mains voltage.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

I'm guessing the 14kV is only exposed on the final anode at the "stethoscope" end of the plug and so the CRT was labelled as such. The >550V will be for the focus and exposed on the driver board at the base of the tube.

[@StarkRG]

It might be a regulatory thing where everything greater than 550V needs a label, so they'd just have a bunch of >550V labels rather than needing different labels for each possible voltage.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

@@StarkRG I don't recall any regulatory things for stating what potential voltages are, especially back in 1988. Maybe the corps got regulation and testing even back then in order to force smaller biz out but only in industrial markets. Corps use government and taxes for themselves.

[@pdessart]

I had one of these in the early '90s. Was delivering training for which I would lug a server and one of these monitors in a flight case. To conduct a lab for 10 - 15 attendees, the customer would supply the classroom full of networked PCs. Thanks to bringing my own server I could show up an hour early on a Monday morning, plug into their network and have everything ready to teach once the students arrived. And yes, adorable...

[@AndruRomin]

Excellent diagnosing skills. Glad to see new life brought back to a monitor that spent its life at a checkout counter.

[@ThorstenDrews]

the "Bildröhrenregeneriergerät" print on the Box shows what beautiful things the german language can create by putting four words into one :-) Great video Adrian. I had one of these little Monitors back on that time as a display for a FIDO Node and for diagnosing PCs of friends that I fixed because it was small and could sit in the corner of my desk with a small footprint.

[@Corialtavi]

I must be learning so much from watching you Adrian. As soon as you switched it on and the Watts spiked then dropped I thought "Capacitor !". Thanks for all your hard work and interesting content.

[@johnpossum556]

I've always found the larger caps more suspect than smaller values.

[@tomf3150]

My thoughts exactly.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

I think this is partially because he presents things as though we are doing the work and we are experiencing the pain (where relevant). You learn best by doing (experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted). By watching you feel like you're doing. It seems in your brain you are taking part. I am never going to be the expert he is (I'm older than he is), but it is gratifying to feel I continue to learn from him.

[@iz8dwf]

Very good troubleshooting Adrian!

[@adriansdigitalbasement]

Thanks! Starting to learn how to "act like an engineer" after watching so many of yours videos.

[@drgiller]

Bravo! You saved another life! I might be inspired to bust out the sad SE/30 and have another go!

[@fotoferry]

Hi Adrian, this is Ferry from Germany. Thank you so much for your video on this monitor. I had the same issue on my IBM4707! I wanted to exchange the tube in my monitor against a 9" amber CRT. The Monitor was working before the "operation", but afterwards: Nothing. Black screen, obviosly no High-voltage on the tube. I thougt, I maybe broke the flyback-transformer by discharging it without a series resistor. Went to bed very angry and sad. Before sleep i watched your video an got a little hope at least. Today i checked this capacitor on my monitor and what do you know: It was shorted too! Crazy. The cap must have been died yesterday, while i was replacing the CRT. I also checked the other electrolytic caps, but they all measured fine. So my monitor works again, after replacing this cap. I would not have thougt of that without your video. Thanks! :-)

[@Modrunner69]

Just came home after celebrating Christmas with the family, and found your new video on KZbin. Sooo relaxing to watch. Merry Christmas and greetings from Germany, home of the Bildröhrenregeneriergeräte.

[@Nerd3927]

Germany, Home of the best scrabble words :-) You can't miss a double word score with Bildröhrenregeneriergerät.

[@mndlessdrwer]

I love the CRT rejuvenation videos because it's just so cool to see a CRT be brought back from near death to a usable state. It is worthwhile to read up on some of the best practices for rejuvenation, though, as I've heard that you should be positioning the CRT in a particular way so that any of the oxides or corrosion from the gun that is blown off during the process will fall away to somewhere it won't readily cause problems in the CRT. Still, if it's burnt to the point that it's unusably dim, then there's no reason not to give it a go with the rejuvenation. You weren't going to be able to use it anyway with such a dim picture, so even if it dies, the outcome would be the same as before: a CRT transplant.

[@vjnobody]

Knew a guy called TV Bill, had some unorthodox ideas, but he once complained about this assembly glue and explained you could test a resistance value across some of it! His thought was conspiracy planned obsolescence, but my theory is they just used it to put the components on the board and thought nothing of it other than this. Gem from the older generation for you and yours!

[@bobfromsoireegames4309]

That's a beautiful IBM specimen. I'm glad it works now.

[@_droid]

I had a capacitor in an appliance die short the other day. That capacitor had no problem handling mains voltage @ 20+ amps, thank goodness for fuses. It is a pretty rare capacitor and all I could find was a 30 year old replacement that tested good. I figure if it's that old and still works it'll probably continue to work.

[@ohioterran7374]

Awesome job at troubleshooting as usual! Great job Adrian! WOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!

[@edward20049]

Love the repair. Happy Holidays!

[@awdx4g63]

This channel is a Christmas present for me. Thanks, Adrain.

[@steampower1015]

Removing gunk like this can often be speeded up if you have a hot air rework station. Set temperature to, say, 100C and use a fine tip to get right to the gunk. Warming it up can soften it making it much easier to remove. Hot air can also soften the adhesive under stickers, making them much easier to remove, too.

[@JARVIS1187]

Adrian, thanks for that year full of interesting stuff! Stay healthy, stay safe but also enjoy the following holidays! :)

[@LatteLover]

Love these cute little monitors! Happy Holidays Adrian!

[@Colaholiker]

The other day I had an issue with a Yamaha keyboard of about the same age. In it, a 470µF cap had turned into a 2.3 Ohms resistor, pulling one of the voltage rails WAY lower than needed. After removing a bunch of other components, I was able to find this one. I replaced it (and a few other caps I had cut out along the way) and it freakin' works! Interestingly, I hooked the same faulty cap up to a capacitance meter (I have access to a very good one at work), and it still has almost full capacity. But Blocking DC... nope. Side note: As a German, I just love seeing "Bildröhrenregeneriergerät" written on that box. :-D

[@JonnyBlueChair]

I really enjoyed this video, Adrian. Thanks for posting.

[@wizdude]

A fantastic video, Adrian. I love watching your diagnostic work and of course it’s even better when you have a winner! Have a Merry Christmas and we look forward to more great videos. Cheers!

[@IEnjoyCreatingVideos]

Nice work on fixing the little monitor Adrian! Thank you for sharing the video with us! and Merry Christmas to you and the family!🎄💖👍😎JP

[@RKelleyCook]

In the early 90s I worked as a developer for branch systems at a top 20 bank. We being an IBM shop, supplied all the tellers in the traditional banks this 9" model since space was often at a premium. Ironically the smaller grocery store kiosk branches got the ubiqutous 14" 8511 color monitor, only because the manager apps were also on those particular boxes easily switchable via OS/2 that was running on them.

[@AerikForager]

Thanks for another great year of content Adrian! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year everyone!

[@knghtbrd]

Glad you got it working Adrian! Hope you and your family had a merry Christmas and here's to a LESS interesting new year!

[@drjanitor82]

thanks Adrian! happy new year!!!

[@frankowalker4662]

Nice repair on a lovely monitor. Brilliant. Hope you had a good Christmas, and have a Happy New Year.

[@wazzym290]

Loved every bit of this video -- Thank you Adrian ! Fan for life

[@coxyofnewp]

A true Christmas miracle !! Nice save and great vid as always Adrian.. Hope you have a great Christmas..

[@somecuntxxx]

The mother of all small setups

[@Vermilicious]

Good fix, mate. A charming little thing.

[@andrewlittleboy8532]

Happy Christmas Adrian and all the best for 2022.

[@PaulinesPastimes]

Good result, you must be pleased. Such a sweet little monitor. ✨

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

Im not all the way through the video but I do recall a similar problem shown on another youtube channel on some modern UPS units made by CyberPower which the vibration protection "gunk" goes off and starts conducting, thus shorting out components on the board. Nice fix Adrian its good another piece of history has been renovated.

[@elmariachi5133]

Any CRT you'd otherwise ditch is a good candidate for rejuvenation. It's even worth a second try. And a happy new year to you, too, Adrian! :)

[@Hiraghm]

Merry Christmas to you, too.

[@alexandrecouture2462]

Merry Christmas! These were so common in the 90s and early 2000s! I'd say that yours is about as bright as it gets. Nice and sharp picture!

[@Epictronics1]

Love that CRT, It's awesome. Great repair :)

[@RonHelton]

Nice fix Adrian! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@JB52520]

I'm not sure why, but nostalgia has become my favorite feeling lately. Your channel is a great source.

[@TheSimTetuChannel]

The Sierra Christmas Card wraps up an already awesome video! Happy Holidays Adrian!

[@williamsquires3070]

Hi Adrian. I hope you and your family (including Rammy!) had a safe and wonderful Christmas holiday! 😍

[@danielcarlenfors]

i reaaly love how happy you get when you get stuff to work! =)

[@MikesArcadeMonitorRepair]

A video right up my alley! Great job!

[@lexluthermiester]

@Adrian I'll say it, Merry Christmas Adrian and a Happy New Year!

[@stephendouglas684]

Starting to like the monitor repair videos, after all! Great production values and content! Could imagine this on educational tv.

[@ftrueck]

The yellow gunk is a celastic glue meant to stop vibration. It was observed that some of these materials turn acidic and become even conductive. This can have caused the failure.

[@ThePCPitChannel]

The only person who can make this kind of diagnoses interesting :)

[@Nerd3927]

We used these 9 inch IBM mono VGA screens in Assembly line controllers. They were the only ones that could handle the magnetic fields from the pick and place units.

[@ultrametric9317]

Another save! IBM things were all built that way at that time. Tanks!

[@Discretesignals]

Merry Christmas Adrian!

[@EngineeringVignettes]

Good diagnosis run, gratz on getting it working again. Resistors go open and capacitors can short. The "glue" that they used to use was changed to a new formula when the original formula was found to become conductive over time. Best to just get rid of it whenever possible. And as always: "thou shall always check voltages" as soon as possible in the diagnosis run. Cheers and Merry Christmas,

[@chloedevereaux1801]

and a merry christmas to you and yours adrian.... xcx

[@ArlenMoulton2]

Just a few pointers for future reference from someone who works on vintage electronics regularly: You can't rely on CRTs being the same size with the same shape neck connector as a way of seeing if they're compatible, it's always best to Google the part numbers to make sure voltages, bias values and other parameters are compatible. CRTs often "wake up" after not being used for a period of time, they will get brighter within the first few hours of use. The 550v warning underneath was actually a "greater than 550v" warning, so yes it's very likely that the HT is 10+kv. Shorted capacitors are very common, especially in gear that hasn't been used for 5+ years. Sometimes you may find that a device works perfectly for a while then stops working at all, most likely is that an electrolytic has shorted. I would suspect any electrolytic before pulling an IC in something this old! All that said, I really enjoyed the video as always, keep them coming!

[@eDoc2020]

AFAIK 7-pin CRTs should be mostly compatible, with two main variations: heater voltage and position of G2 and G4. I believe the other bias voltages are mostly compatible.

[@e1woqf]

Repairing electronic devices myself I would never have desoldered that IC in the first place without making sure those caps are ok.

[@Hogwarts.Failure]

That's exactly what i thought....... THE CAP ADRIAN!!! CHECK THE CAP!! lol

[@0mnis14sh]

Awesome repair job, thanks!

[@wayneholzer4694]

Wow memories I had one of those with my old 386 in the early 90's

[@edgardovigo147]

Thank you Adrian!

[@andymouse]

Great work and well done although I am a little surprised that you went and removed the chip rather than the cap as the cap was the easiest by far and very likely the problem, remember a short is also a massive leak ! but I guess a nice desolder gun helped with that decision ! Happy New Year....cheers.

[@stevebabiak6997]

Especially since a shorted chip there would probably have had its plastic body crack or it would have become so hot as to discolor the PCB beneath it. Neither of which were observed.

[@rog2224]

i saw that model in server rooms and telehouses in both the UK and NL, usually attached to a monitor switch on a rack - late 90s/very early 00s. Often with horrendous burn in, since people often left them on and connected to whatever was misbehaving last. No photos, since they had a tendency to fire you for infrastructure photos in those places.

[@rpavlik1]

That's a lovely little monitor! I have fond memories of small monochrome CRTs, I had I think a Compaq that was maybe 10 inches? Thanks for the heads up on the PineCil BTW, I ordered one maybe a month ago, pretty impressed so far, and the burn on my hand is almost healed! 😅

[@ITGuyinaction]

🎅❄☃️ Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year! 🎅❄☃️ Beautiful monitor! I love retro devices thus it's so great you give the second life to these devices. I'm trying to do sth similar... 🎅❄☃️

[@jarthurs]

I remember buying three of these from an auction in the 90's. One did sterling service on a server until well into the 2000's.

[@randymoyer5351]

Merry Christmas!!

[@The-Weekend-Warrior]

Caps can definitely short out, I've seen quite a load of them going shorted. Nice fault-finding there!! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Adrian! Cheers.

[@russellhltn1396]

I'm surprised he's never heard of it happening. It's super common in older tube-type equipment.

[@gamernature]

Merry Christmas Adrian

[@denisconnolly5064]

I've seen this glue cause so many problems too, but no complaints here as it generated good repair revenue. One use of glue that was very unwelcome however was the silicone type IIYAMA used to glue the EHT anode caps to the bowl of the tube. It was very strong and made it difficult to disconnect the lead from the CRT without causing damage.

[@TechBench]

Just ... wow. It's better than watching an adventure movie - thank you so much for documenting your thought processes as you wade your way through to finding the ultimate fault. Such a satisfying view. All the best to you and yours for what's left of '21 and looking forward to a great '22.

[@ItsMrAssholeToYou]

When you were doing the earlier continuity test (24:06-24:15), and both legs of the cap beeped, I was like "There's your problem. Caps shouldn't have continuity through them." But I guess you not expecting an electrolytic to short threw you off.

[@mtx33]

Indeed if there is a short near to a 30+ years old capacitor, it's a big clue. But because anything connected to that positive node after the 470k resistor and the ground parallel could have been the short, he could have picked any of the two caps or the IC to desolder, he was just bit unlucky.

[@AwesomeGames56]

Awesome to see a monitor like this being fixed instead of being thrown out. Hopefully it can be given to a collector one day once your use for it reaches an end.

[@Denvermorgan2000]

Great video thanks Adrian.

[@yetshi]

new channel for older hardware, Adrian's analog attic

[@wb8cxo]

Great troubleshoot! Bet there's more leaky caps in that monitor! ;) Merry Christmas!

[@realstevef]

Great job, Adrian. As stated by others earlier, suspect and check the simple two-legged varmints before the multi-legged ones. Of course it's easy for me to say that after you've fixed it. :)

[@RPGBros]

123,000 subs! Congrats

[@markae0]

Happy Holidays!

[@cbaxter6527]

"tan glue of death" was found on my Commodore monitor made for C64 and attached to my Atari 8-bit and Cable TV tuner for years until the same fate - death by Daewoo quality.

[@willtosh7903]

Merry Christmas adrian

[@iocat]

great video!!

[@chris_hertford]

This was my first monitor, a gift from my uncle after we built my first pc from spares. Was 386sx 25mhz! I spent ages looking for a used VGA to finally embrace colour!

[@guym6093]

As an old timer I have seen a lot of shorted capacitors. Specially in low voltage circuits. Just not enough power to blow them open ot the over power safety circuit in power supplies shuts down to prevent capacitor opening up.