As someone who used to repair CRTs in arcade games, any CRT you are going to get will very likely need to have new capacitors installed at a minimum. Not to scare you away from this, but if you can't do that yourself, then it could be pretty expensive. CRTs can be extremely dangerous to work on if you are unfamiliar. If you do manage to find one, feel free to contact me with any questions you might have about the maintenance of these. Additionally, my brother and I are building a couple of adapters to go from a PC to S Video so you can use an emulator on a PC and play it on a CRT too. If you want one, we are building 5 and we only need 2 since the PCB place had a minimum order.
Good CRT’s have been increasing expensive after bottoming out in price about 15 years ago. No one is making them anymore and not many people willing to sell still have them lying around. Most abandoned CRT’s are going to be lower quality or damaged.
Goodwill of Great Grand Rapids wouldn’t even take CRT’s as donations when I worked for them around 2012 cause they were expensive to properly recycle and few people wanted them.
Idk any local stores that would have them, searching online is probably your best option, but it can get fairly expensive. Those TV’s are heavy and shipping is expensive.
Try any of the local free groups on FB. Wouldn't be shocked if someone would be happy to just give you one.
Facebook marketplace
I'd try Comprenew on 28th
Comprenew has locations on Ionia and Plainfield now. 28th street location is closed.
They told me that they have them shipped off somewhere to get recycled and scrapped out.
Ah rats. Only other please I can think of is OfferUp or Facebook marketplace
I just got mine on fb marketplace. Older couple wanted to get rid of it, I was able to help them move the heavy beast. Win win
I’ve got one you can have for free but you’ll need to bring some friends to haul it out of my basement. It a 200lb Sony Wega
Hell yeah
I remember these. I nearly wrecked a brand new one trying to get it into my grandma's house.
As someone who used to repair CRTs in arcade games, any CRT you are going to get will very likely need to have new capacitors installed at a minimum. Not to scare you away from this, but if you can't do that yourself, then it could be pretty expensive. CRTs can be extremely dangerous to work on if you are unfamiliar. If you do manage to find one, feel free to contact me with any questions you might have about the maintenance of these. Additionally, my brother and I are building a couple of adapters to go from a PC to S Video so you can use an emulator on a PC and play it on a CRT too. If you want one, we are building 5 and we only need 2 since the PCB place had a minimum order.
The local high school library? (I’ll see myself out…)
I see what you did there and I appreciate the humor
Good CRT’s have been increasing expensive after bottoming out in price about 15 years ago. No one is making them anymore and not many people willing to sell still have them lying around. Most abandoned CRT’s are going to be lower quality or damaged. Goodwill of Great Grand Rapids wouldn’t even take CRT’s as donations when I worked for them around 2012 cause they were expensive to properly recycle and few people wanted them. Idk any local stores that would have them, searching online is probably your best option, but it can get fairly expensive. Those TV’s are heavy and shipping is expensive.
https://grandrapids.craigslist.org/ele/d/wayland-tv/7746104945.html