New to the club! Finally! I've been wanting one of these for years and finally got to make it happen. It's a nice mix of the good, the bad, and the ugly. I think I'll start a full restore this winter. The seller (very nice guy) got two of them and combined the nicer playfield with the nicer cab. It's a German re-import and the playfield definitely has some mileage on it. The seller got it working, updated the system to v2.1, and I'm loving it!

Ever want to know what a 17" LCD that is actually closer to 16" would look like on the game? Wonder no more. It's terrible! haha

I see a lot of new parts in my future.

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I just put this LED/LCD in mine. It came with a horrible 17" LCD that was way too small and fairly terrible in every way. I'm using this 24" LCD and it is working great. I absolutely love the image. I used the monitor settings and the CGA to VGA converter board to resize the image down a bit, otherwise it would be too wide. I like the 24" monitor because it gives me more height. I still have some tweaking with the positioning, but overall I love this monitor. I looked at a few, and this HP monitor had the best black levels at a very good price. I also like the adjustments that it had for resizing the image. It also has 'save state' built in, so it turns on automatically when power is restored. Not all of the do this. Still not as good as a CRT black level, but I love it.

HP - 24f 23.8" IPS LED FHD FreeSync Monitor - Natural Silver
Model:24F

I got it from Best Buy for $179. It's on sale now. Once I get the positioning just right, I'll make a nice black poster board surround to block out the sides of the screen that are not used when the image is shrunk down horizontally.

I looked at the 19" LED 4:3 drop in replacement type of monitors, but they were just too small. From what I've found, a 19" LCD arcade monitor is smaller that a 19" CRT as far as image size. I'm not convinced that the images would line up properly with the targets. I didn't want them to be close, I wanted them to be exactly over the right targets. Maybe I'm OCD about it, but if I can make them line up perfectly, why not do it? The 24" monitor is giving me lots of room to move around and tweak the image to get it just right.

Pretty sure it should come on immediately. Mine does.

I put mine inside, just sitting on top of the original monitor cutout. I'll make a nicer posterboard/foam core board type of surround one of these days. I still want to mess with the alignment more before I make the surround. I used the CGA/VGA board controls to move the image around and resize it so the reflection lines up the way I want on the playfield. You just have to tinker with it until the image lines up right. You can also move the monitor up and down in the cabinet since the cutout for the original monitor is still a little taller than a 24 inch LCD screen.

I'm thinking about getting a CRT to put into my RFM. It came with a crap little LCD, which I replaced with a much nicer one. I kind of want to try a CRT in there just for fun. Can most any monitor fit? Does it need a special shaped frame to fit in there or will something like a Wells Gardner K7000 or K4900 fit?

Also, is there anyone in the Portland, OR area that has a CRT I might be able to get from them. I'm OK with monitors that have burn-in. It seems to be my lot in life that I have to keep doing tube swaps, even though they are hard as hell to find around here.