RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] cheap monitors?

["McNutt, Justin M." <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On a similar note, don't just throw the monitor away if you're done with it.
Monitor tubes often contain lead.  Recycle them.  There are several computer
vendors who will take them (they won't *buy* them from you - after all, it's
broken!).  :-)

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Odle [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 6:19 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] cheap monitors?
> 
> 
> Obviously my highly intelligent friend Igor is a little 
> sleepy today, because he forgot to include the standard: 
> "WARNING THERE ARE HIGH VOLTAGES INSIDE YOUR MONITOR!!!  BE 
> VERY, VERY AFRAID!!!".
> 
> And Igor - I'm not being sarcastic about the intelligent part 
> - you regularly amaze me with the random stuff you seem to 
> know about...
> 
> -n8
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 2, 2001, at 05:12 PM, Igor Izyumin Jr. wrote:
> 
> On Friday 02 March 2001 08:40, Spurling, Shannon  wrote:
> > Yeah, that's what I was thinking about. I know they 
> refurbish stuff like
> > that all the time, so it has to kind of be worth it in some 
> cases. Problem
> > is, once some shops start tacking on the labor and parts, 
> you might as well
> > get a new one. I already used my tax refund on a refurb 20" 
> sun monitor
> > with a regular VGA connector on it. It's a beautiful 
> monitor. I just hate
> > to throw out a perfectly good 17" with a bad gun. It mostly 
> works. It just
> > looks really ugly. :-)
> I'd try fixing it before I throw it away.  Chances are, 
> something's not 
> making contact on that little PCB that connects to the tube.  
> I had to touch 
> up some of the soldering on it on one of my monitors - the tube was 
> occasionally (once or twice a day) turning off and then right 
> back on.  Maybe 
> it's something like that in your case, too.  If you don't 
> want to fix it 
> yourself, give it somebody who will.  Or read repairfaq.org 
> and fix it 
> yourself.
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