{"id":281,"date":"2018-11-14T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=281"},"modified":"2018-11-14T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T15:19:01","slug":"c64-restoration-project-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/c64-restoration-project-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"C64 Restoration Project &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I haven&#8217;t been happy with the display on our LCD TVs from the C64C so I ordered a LumaFix64, which is supposed to reduce the problems.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lf64.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lf64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a>I had fun removing the VIC II chip. It was quite firm in the socket and the chip puller I bought couldn&#8217;t get a good grip, so I fell back to a small screwdriver, which did the trick.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lf64fitted.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lf64fitted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a>This was the display before fitting the LumaFix64.<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/b4lf64.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-283\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/b4lf64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a>After much fiddling with the pots on it, the display started to clear. This is the end result. Not perfect but vastly improved \ud83d\ude42<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afterlf64.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-282\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/afterlf64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/a>I think I&#8217;ll call this a success \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I haven&#8217;t been happy with the display on our LCD TVs from the C64C so I ordered a LumaFix64, which is supposed to reduce the problems.I had fun removing the VIC II chip. It was quite firm in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/11\/14\/c64-restoration-project-part-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}