Hey famous, pretty new myself, but I figured I'd throw this your way if you haven't seen it yet.

http://lawnmowerman.rotheblog.com/rgvac/G07_Flowchart.jpg

I don't know how relevant it will be considering you've already swapped in a known working chassis. My completely non-expert thinking is that the tube might just be dead. Do you have access to someone with a tube tester/rejuvenator that can take a look at it?

Your welcome, glad it panned out for you. It was a learning experience for me too, I'd never seen the insulators before.

So I did a little bit of poking around and found these "Joystick Contact Insulators" on arcade boneyard for 2.99. They aren't the same color, but they seem to have the same shape.

http://thearcadeboneyard.com/controllers_and_parts/joystick_parts.php (About halfway down the page, 4th column from left on my end)

There's a stick on arcade that looks similar too.

http://www.quarterarcade.com/Game.aspx/10287

Edit: I found a post on another forum that speculates that they may only be for protecting from grounding out and ultimately unnecessary. (http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=57183&title=joystick-leaf-switches-and-washer)
If that's the you might be able to readjust the switch angles and just remove them all together.

Hopefully that does it for you. The thought of having to  buy a whole new tube...My wife would not be pleased with me.

Yeah I thought about trying that, but I'd like to do some further testing to try to figure out if that's indeed necessary. From what I've read they don't go bad very often and I'm not at all sure how to determine the likelihood of that being the case. I still need to find where/how to test the b+, little by little I'm working my way towards either a fix or a scrap and replace. Hopefully not the latter, as that's pricier than I can afford right now. Here's hoping I can get my hands on a rejuver fairly cheaply too.

Hm, okay I'll have to see what I can find, thanks for taking a look. Maybe this is a good excuse to buy a rejuver

Yeah, It just kind of washes the colors out, but there's no actual increase in brightness/glow.

Of course. My apologies, I had some on my phone, and I should have thought to post them when I started the thread.

Night: (the camera picks up a bit more than just my eyes do in the night photos, it's a little bit dimmer than what appears.)

With screen brightness turned up from flyback:

http://i.imgur.com/FhJzb9K.jpg

With screen brightness lowered and focus a little more dialed in:

http://i.imgur.com/9200JtK.jpg

Day:

Without changing anything from the previous image.

http://i.imgur.com/eujB1GE.jpg

Hey all,

So I picked up my first cabinet a couple of weeks ago. It plays but the monitor (WG K4914) is incredibly dim. To see anything, lights that are in the room have to be off. I've managed to get the colors and focus looking good, but turning up the brightness from the flyback just makes the picture worse. The previous owner told me he already capped the monitor (though I'll probably do that again anyway to be sure), and now I'm trying to figure out what I should do/test next.

I've tested voltages from the power supply and the board and they check out fine, but I'm not sure where on the chassis to test the b+ voltage or what else I can test for that matter. Can I find this information in the manual? Is there information in the chassis diagram? I'm new to reading these diagrams and I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.

Hello everyone! Just getting started with collecting/restoring and I've been loving the show. So much great information! Hope to lurk less and be more involved soon.