Hello,

Let me start off by saying that the only experience I have with
soldering electronics is from my grade 8 electronics class so I'm
wondering if I should even bother trying to repair my CRT Monitor...?

My problem is almost exactly the same as this a thread I found searching
google on this forum

http://groups.google.ca/group/sci.el...e_frm/thread/d
da718027c3168aa/703ec0ac89d30c81?q=CRT+horizontal+shrinking&rnum=1 2
&hl=en#703ec0ac89d30c81

My 17 inch AOC monitor has a hourglass shaped picture upon turning it on
if left on long enough the picture eventually returns to normal...the
pincushion controls have no effect on the monitor when its in this
hourglass shrunken state

Could a electronics newbie tackle fixing something like this???