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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 26 February 2025

For the retro techies out there… I have a CRT monitor that needs repair to fully complete my retro gaming rig. Tube, cables, HV/flyback etc. are fine, it’s got other electronic issues resulting in no video, that are a little more outside my skillset to fix.

Places willing to fix CRTs are now basically non-existent that I can find, anyone have any tips for somewhere that may repair such a thing? Most hear ‘CRT’ and nope out.

Extra frustrating because my dad used to DO exactly this for a living! I swear I have aches that stem from helping him move mega-heavy CRT TVs around his workshop as a kid! I have no doubt he’d have been able to sort this thing out in a hour or less. 😔

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s a few mobs in moorabbin that specialise in older tech - got my CD player repaired there (europeanelectronics.com.au, although they mostly truck in sony). Moorabbin Television Services Pty Ltd I’ve heard good things about, apparently it’s an ex service bloke who’s just running it as a spinner on the side. AN Electronics are apparently not too shabby either, they’re in Huntingdale. There used to be a great one near the library in Mount Waverley I went to back in the day but I’m pretty sure they’re long gone.

Basically: look to your slightly shabby postwar suburbs.

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- mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  These are all awesome recommendations, I’ll see what I can organise! You are a legend :)
  
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  - Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Hey, you asked for retro gamer and equipment opinions :) (I keep a CRT for the atari…Games like asteroids go off the play screen on modern TVs)
    
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    mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’ve been without a working CRT for far too long, it’s time! Of course the PC I’ll connect to is currently running an IDE spinning rust disk with an OS installed from floppy disk, because I’m a ~~glutton for punishment~~ stickler for authenticity :D
    
    Next mission is to find a monitor for C64 duties (because oh my god do LCDs destroy the output from one of those no matter what you try and feed it through!)
    
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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s an old guy in Hopetoun Park that does stuff like this but I’d need to wait until the man comes home from work to get the details.

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- mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks, that would be much appreciated! I’m in the outer-east but am willing to travel to get it sorted if needs must.
  
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  - CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    No worries. BTW Hopetoun Park is just before Bacchus Marsh if you were wondering.
    
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    mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yup know where it is, friends of mine used to live out that way :)
    
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dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What kind of repair? Maybe a degaussing wand? Remember having speaker near the TV?

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- mysticgreg@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Nah degauss is all good and gives a nice satisfying clunk (I lurrrve a good degauss lmao). Not getting any kind of a picture to need it!
  
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