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Mike wrote:The voltages used in a CRT are in excess of 25 kV, and can cause an arc - and electric shock - without you even touching any metallic parts!

YIKES! I was lucky then! Thanks for the info... !

Success!!! I have a really big iron magnet that I had tried to clean up my screen with, but just made it worse. I found a post on the Interwebs that talked about how CRTs work a bit, and what the degausser is doing to the mat behind the glass. Turns out if I use the poles of my magnet, I can have a lot more control over the clearing of the false colours. I found one pole worked for the top half of the screen, and the other pole worked on the bottom half.

I spent about 10 minutes today waving the magnet around in front of my 1702 and by golly I got it! Now it's perfect - nice and crisp and smooth proper colour across the whole screen. WHEW!

Take care!

Rick in Barrie

Hurrah! Now you have another profession in degaussing CRTs. Well, those that are still around...

Blockparty 2010 on April 16-18,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
July 24-25 CommVEx v6 2010 - http://www.commodore.ca/forum
and click on ComVEX

I've still got a manual degaussing coil from when I was heavy into collecting arcade games. Can't seem to find any for sale except a 36" monster one over at happs!.

Works much easier that using a fixed magnet, takes about 5 to 10 seconds to degauss a monitor.


Later,
dabone