Since I had the chassis out, I figured I'd clean up the monitor shelf.
You can see where the chassis/tube sat, the original color of the wood.
I glued back together layers of laminate that were coming apart, and sanded the top slightly to get rid of most of the grime and bring the color of the wood closer to its original color.
Hooked everything back up and powered it up for the first time in a few months. Everything looked good, but what's that smell? Sort of smells like BBQ. SMOKE!
Something near the flyback area was smoking, so I quickly unplugged it. I couldn't tell exactly where it was coming from, but there was a sickly looking capacitor in the flyback cage area. The monitor still seemed to work fine despite the smoke, so I'll pull it out and check out that area. Hoping it's not the flyback itself going!
I pulled and repainted the rear speaker bolts black.
I also sprayed a few coats of clear matte finish onto the CP. This really gave it the look I was hoping for in the first place:
Compared to:
and of course:
I also painted various screws matte black, replaced the missing bezel screws, cleaned out the bezel channel so the bezel sat flush and stapled the new floor mat to the cabinet.
I finished mounting the new speakers in the font section. They were slightly larger around the edge than the originals, so I shaved one side of the speaker down and widened the speaker's mounting holes slightly so I could use re-use the original screw hole locations on the cabinet.
