This is something I posted on the newsgroup back in July. It's basically how to get a new 25" picture tube for your Star Wars Cockpit and get the color convergence done. It's a common thing, and a shame for that matter, for a Star Wars cockpit to be using a 19" wells gardner monitor. -------------------------------- Subject: Star Wars Monitor HELP! Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 From: Matt Rossiter Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting These are the steps that I'd take. 1) Calm Down. 2) Get someone with a tube tester to verify that your tube is really bad. 3) If it's bad, I'd buy a new one rather than having it rebuilt since it has pretty bad screen burn. I bought the A63ABZ26X model from Clarke Electronics for about $154 bucks. http://www.picturetubes.net. Keep in mind that the 25" tubes are indeed 100 degree tubes whereas the 19" ones were 90 degree tubes. You'll see some keystoning - but trust me - I put one in my Star Wars cockpit a year ago and it looks awesome. You can also try http://www.hawkeyepicturetube.com 4) Buy yourself some rubber wedges and magnetic shunts from your closest mazzco dealer - http://www.mazzco.com/html/location.htm. Give them these Wells Gardner part numbers - (wedges) 008X0374-001 and (magnetic shunts or tabs) 009A2808-001. They are $0.40 cents a piece. You'll want these when you have to do the color convergence on your new tube. I also recommend getting a hot glue gun. 5) Get ready to spend some time doing your purity and convergence adjustment! Download the amplifone manual and follow their procedures -or- I have my own procedures for doing convergence: a) put game into test mode with white grid screen on. b) slide yoke on and adjust yoke back and forth until all the colors (usually separated at this point) are a clean red, green and blue. Also making sure the grid is straight and not warped. Put a rubber wedge temporarily up top to keep its position c) slide magnetic assembly on with all the tabs pointing upward and have the purity tabs (the first two) over the first gap in the electron gun assembly - maybe adjust the position slightly back and forth to get your desired result and then screw it down. d) adjust your purity first by flipping the test screen to the solid red square screen and pull the first two tabs (purity tabs) apart and adjust them until your solid red square has absolutely no discolorization spots. e) go back to grid screens but flip until you get to the purple screen and adjust the red and blue tabs until you have the red and blue converged as much as possible. f) flip to the white grid screen again and adjust the green and red (third set of tabs) so that you finally get a pure white grid. g) use your paper magnetic shunts to align the edges properly. It's almost impossible to align the edges without using the shunts. Please take caution be responsible in whatever you do. I'm only sharing how I did mine. I'd recommend you refer to the factory manual first. If you aren't sure about any of this - then get someone with experience to do it and refer to the factory manual. Hope that helps. good luck! Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------------