Monitor Tips... What Should I do?

I have an old monitor in a beat up cab. It's a 27"-ish WG. I don't know the 3 but it's one of the realy common ones.

It is in dire need of a cap kit. It takes 6 minutes to display a picture. and some of the colors are off (white letters have a green "shadow"). It also has some fuzzyness when I use certain boards.

I'm probably gonna junk the cab (It's at my mom's and I have no use for it) and put the monitor in a Custom box, or make my own mini cute out of plywood. My friend's mom owns a woodshop and owes me favors for fixing her PC all the time.

Should I just go ahead with a Cap kit?

I see sometimes that people sell refurbed Chasis on Ebay. Should that fix my problems or do I need even more parts?

norton9478 said:

It takes 6 minutes to display a picture. and some of the colors are off (white letters have a green "shadow"). It also has some fuzzyness when I use certain boards.

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Its worth going ahead with a cap kit imho.

But from your description the CRT may have low emission, I dont know how much new CRTs are in the states - I imagine it would be touch and go on the economics of this, also you would require some experience setting up purity and convergence to successfully replace the CRT..

Worth having a spare working monitor board (with new cap kit installed) anyway.