any good tv shop should have one, but most won't touch anything for less than $70, although some are still nice. if you can do a little electronics work it's easy to make a very good degaussing coil easily. you take the coil out of a dead old color tv (watch the allies by dumpsters!), it's usually wrapped with electrical tape and has 2 black or white wires coming off of it. what you do is carefully twist it into a figure 8, fold it over where it crosses itself so you have a smaller, thicker coil. make a figure 8 again and fold it over. you now have a coil about 6" in diameter with the windings very concentrated. you hook this up to an ac wall wart/transformer with some speaker wire or zip cord. 12-18 volts is about right for the coil, i've got one on an 18 v transformer and it works great, draws about one amp and doesn't get warm.
you want to turn it on away from the monitor, move it close to the monitor, make small circular motions and move it around the screen, gradually make bigger circles and then slowly move it back away from the monitor. once it's at least 5' away you can turn it off and check the monitor, when it's bad it may take more than one pass, you can concentrate on the bad spots, just pretend you're buffing off rough spots with a circular motion. always move reasonably slowly (not quick or jerky, but not at a snails pace either) and always turn the coil on and off with it away from the monitor or you can magnetize it worse. i've done this with some old sun monitors in big steel cases that were incredibly bad, it took 3 long thorough tries but they eventually came back to normal. so go scrounge a degaussing coil from a 21" or larger tv, a 12-18 v 1 amp transformer and your set. the really nice thing is that unlike most commercial degaussing coils it won't over heat so you can take your time. you should avoid getting close to the neck in the back of the picture tube, there are magnets there that help the convergence and you don't want to demagnetize those magnets even partially or at best you'd have to readjust them. just work around the face of the tube and the front corners of the case. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > As an old school person who used to work on color graphics equipment, you can use a >device called a degaussing coil. It's a large coil of copper wire, hooked to a AC >outlet via a switch. Most old-time TV repair shops should have one. What it does is >establish a large magnetic field when energized. Interacting with a smaller magnetic >field on a CRT, it removes stray magnetics on the CRT. ----- -- "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.) -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
