Anyone still do a CRT repair - and is screen damaged by heat?

[James Harris]

My 21" monitor has, sadly, developed a fault in the line output stage
and you wouldn't believe (or perhaps you would!) how difficult it is to
find someone to repair it.

1) Can you recommend someone in the UK who I could trust to do a
competent job?

2) I left it with a TV repair company locally who were unable to repair
it but when I picked it up the center of the screen had been left next
to a radiator and was very hot. Would that do any damage to the screen?

I have written to the maker (CTX) but not had a reply yet. Suggestions
would be appreciated.

 

[Art]

Ambient heat source should not have had any effect. I presume it was not
next to a blast furnace.<

 

[James Harris]

Ambient heat source should not have had any effect. I presume it was
not next to a blast furnace.<

No, just a full-blast radiator.

 

[JoeSP]

My 21" monitor has, sadly, developed a fault in the line output stage and
you wouldn't believe (or perhaps you would!) how difficult it is to find
someone to repair it.

The only thing I am having trouble believing is why someone would want to
repair a CRT, when new and used ones are so cheap and abundant. Not to
mention the fact that the difference between a CRT and an LCD monitor is
probably less than the repair bill.

 

[JoeSP]

Well, 1600x1200 LCDs are still expensive. Also, CRTs have no dead pixels

My Samsung LCD 1600 x 1200 from Costco wasn't much more than a CRT
equivalent. It was cheap because it had 3 dead pixels in the upper right
corner. Funny thing happened after a year, the pixels came back to life and
haven't failed since.