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M Series Cap Kits - Ready to Ship

Hey everyone. I have some extra cap kits available for the PVM M Series monitors. This kit will work with any M Series and the Olympus OEV 143 & OEV 203 monitors.

The kit costs $65 U...

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Early Access: Sony BVM D Series Repair: Sony BvM D9H5U

First off, thank you for supporting Retro Tech. This BVM was shipped to me for work by a patron, Etienne! Thanks again Etienne!

Pleas let me know if you have any questions or need anythi...

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Early Access: CRT Market Analysis for Q2, 2020

Hey everybody,

I'm happy to be able to bring you a new episode of CRT Market Watch. Let me know if you have any questions about CRT purchases or any experiences you'd like to share.
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M Series cap kits available

Hey everyone, I have 2 fresh Cap kits leftover from an order. The are for the Sony PVM M2 and M4 Monitors. It will also work on Olympus OEV 143 & 203. The price is $65 USD shipped. ($5 off ...

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Early Access: L5 unboxing & repairs

Hey everyone. Please let me know if you need anything and have a great day.

Thanks again

- Steve

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Early Access: Olympus OEV 203 Restoration

Hey everybody. I recently had the opportunity to restore a nice Olympus OEV 203. Here is early access to the video coming out next week..

Please let me know if you need anything and than...

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Early Access: packing & shipping tips!

Thanks everyone and please let me know if you need anything.

- Steve

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For Sale: PVM 1943MD

Hey everyone.

I'm selling my most recent restoration project. This is the Sony PVM 1943MD Trinitron CRT from the videos on the channel. It has been cleaned, recapped, calibrated and the ...

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Early Access: Sony PVM 1943MD Restoration. Before & After recapping and calibrating.

Hi everyone. Here is early access to my next video featuring the now complete Sony PVM 1943MD.

Thanks for your support and please let me know if you need anything.

Steve

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Project PVM 1943MD

Hey everyone. Here is the PVM I've been working through this week. This one was made in 1992 so it needed a recap desperately. I was able to develop an abbreviated cap kit for it. I've include...

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Early Access: Clown Torture, Why Why Why!

Hey everyone. Here is a short video that will be out in a few days on YT. I will have a couple more videos coming of my work with the Museum soon.

Thanks for your support!

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Early Access - No ads! Dead PVM Repair

Hey everyone. Here is early access to my latest repair video. I will have a couple more videos on this PVM coming next week. Please enjoy this before commercials are added on Monday for the rele...

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Problems with Patreon

Hey everyone. I've been having some big issues this week with Patreon. Unfortunately There is an error on their end that won't allow me to reply to any of your direct messages. If you don't mind...

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Early Access: Upcoming Restorations & PVM listings for March

Hey everyone.  Here is an ad free update video of what I will be covering in March.  I will be restoring 2 new PVMs that I've not covered in the past.  They are lower end PVMs and wi...

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Early "Ad Free" Access - Sony PVM N Series Intro/Mod

Hello everyone.  I want to say thank you very much for your continued support.  I also wanted to say a special Thank you to the many New Patrons that have joined this month.  I will ...

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PVM Bezel repair update

The bezel repair has held up well. Here are pictures of the complete repair. This JB Weld worked great!

More to come. Thanks

Steve

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Broken PVM Bezel repair

I had a PVM bezel that was damaged while be shipped to me. The bezel had separated from the CRT. Since I found all the parts, I thought I'd try rebuilding the bezel. I used the strongest epoxy...

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JVC AV36D501 D Series CRT Lives!

It's back together and working amazingly well! The cap kits works! I will have to calibrate it some, but 1st I need the remote.

More to come....

Steve

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JVC D Series Cap Kit Installed!

I finished installing my Nichicon Cap Kit for the JVC AV36D501. It took about 3 hours to complete. Now I need to clean off the remaining dust and flux residue. Then I can reassemble and finally ...

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Early Access: JVC AV36D501 Restoration Part 1

Hey everyone.  Here is the first JVC restoration video for the JVC 36" D Series Consumer CRT.  This will be ad free for a couple days and will be released to YouTube early next week with ...

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More JVC D series Pictures - Cap Kit development

I cleaned up the boards today as I eagerly await the delivery of my cap kit. I had to develop this kit from scratch. That's done by individually documenting each cap position and value from inspe...

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Current Project Update - Exclusive

Hey everyone.  First I want to say thank you for continuing to support Retro Tech, and thank you to all the new Patrons as well as the long time supporters.  Please if you need anything s...

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Happy New Year

Hey everybody. In case you missed it, this is the Patreon exclusive presentation on the CRT Master Class I did on my convention tour in 2019. I have been out of town this week, but will be back w...

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For Sale: Discount details below

Hey everybody. I hope you are doing well. I don't currently have a Monitor ready to list for sale, but I do have a rare video game console that I'm selling. This JVC X'Eye is in good shape and work...

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Sony PVM 1353MD for Sale

Hey everyone. I'm going to offer this PVM here for a bit as a special offer. This PVM was the one in the Future Proof video. It had some cap work done, calibration, cleaning and it's ready to go...

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Patreon Exclusive Presentation - CRT Master Class

This month I gave a Live Presentation at the Grand Ole Game Room Expo in Nashville, TN.  I decided to re-record the presentation and give it as a Patreon benefit only.  This video will no...

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1 minute History of CRTs.

I found this old clip while I was working on my new CRT masterclass presentation. Unfortunately I found it second hand and could not find the original author/artist so I'll keep this clip a Patreo...

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The monster haul of 2019 has arrived!

Hey, so here are the PVMs and other monitors I got today from the recycler. Now I need to test them because they are all really old, but for some reason there was a BKM 68X on the lot! Het I'm no...

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New load of Monitors arriving next week!

Hey everyone. I have some amazing news. I received a message this morning from my Monitor supplier. He has a couple pallets worth of Sony Pro CRT monitors ready for me to come pick up. Most of ...

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Early Access: Servicing a Sony PGM Trinitron

Hi everyone. Here is my latest video from a repair I finished a couple weeks ago. Thanks again Milo for bringing these monitors by the shop. Thank you to everyone for the support and please le...

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