Long story short the thing was not packed for the rough handing of international shipping. Case has cracks and unit has several faults. The most alarming fault is the CRT output, seems to have purity issues. Excuse the bad mobile phone shot but it demonstrates the red on the blue screen. I was hoping somebody could confirm if this is may be permanent impact damage; perhaps the shadow mask has been dislodged and is unfixable.
The red on the blue screen can be fixed,as it's just a magnetic problem. Here's how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHak3xx37Vs If it doesn't go away,then it may be permanent damage.
Thanks for the idea. I have every soldering tool except a soldering gun like that. I take it this is a poor man's substitute for a degaussing wand?
I think it is. Another method is this: http://www.wikihow.com/Demagnetize-a-TV-Screen I had accidentally magnetized a corner of my TV once,and this guide did the trick to return it to normal.It actually worked.
My friend is the owner of this and wanted a bit of help to assess the damage. The story is he paid for it with paypal and is currently dealing with them for a resolution. Good idea though, I'll tell him about filing a damage report with the shipping guys. The TV was shipped in a cardboard box with a single layer of bubble wrap so I'd conclude the seller didn't pack it properly . Among that there are a few other issues. - No remote included, seller said there was one. - Multi out for the internal snes only gives audio, no composite. - Internal s-video signal seems to be missing chroma as the internal snes 'game' channel gives a black and white picture. Be interesting to see how this one pans out, I wouldn't buy one of these cause they don't even use RGB, still cool I suppose.
A transformer, as big as possible. plug it in ac socket then move around the screen (as close as possible) in circles and then move away from the screen (again in circles), don't turn it off while it close to the screen as it can result in quite opposite thing - it will magnetize the mask.
Well don't mention or tell your friend to mention what he knows about the inner workings. Might work against you since they'll think you've pulled it apart or something. Personally would explain it wasn't as described. Hopefully the case will be solved in your friend's favor, but he'll have to ship it back and may end up being out of pocket either way.
Yes that was my exact reasoning. The need to know information is it was packed poorly and consequently trashed. Good news is he got a refund so it's heading here for some kind of restoration soon.
