Srieck,
If you don't know what you are doing, or are afraid to venture inside a Compact Mac, let a trained TV technician recap the analogue board. I did that with one of my compacts (which developed the bright vertical line syndrome), and the cost was under $60 w. labour (I have no experience with soldering, and I, too, was a little weary of opening the case on my compacts). Besides, you get a warranty for all repairs done on the machine (just try and find a reputable technician- and yes, they are becoming harder to find unfortunately).
A good technician may guide you through how to discharge the CRT if you ask so you can complete your own repairs. I took the initiative, and it's really not that difficult (just try not to hit the yoke, or else it's game over for that display, and you don't really want thousands of pieces of glass flying around everywhere, although I do believe that some of the CRTs in the compacts had an implosion safety feature of some sort- one of my upgraded Pluses has a label which states that, although I wouldn't trust it).
If you don't know what you are doing, or are afraid to venture inside a Compact Mac, let a trained TV technician recap the analogue board. I did that with one of my compacts (which developed the bright vertical line syndrome), and the cost was under $60 w. labour (I have no experience with soldering, and I, too, was a little weary of opening the case on my compacts). Besides, you get a warranty for all repairs done on the machine (just try and find a reputable technician- and yes, they are becoming harder to find unfortunately).
A good technician may guide you through how to discharge the CRT if you ask so you can complete your own repairs. I took the initiative, and it's really not that difficult (just try not to hit the yoke, or else it's game over for that display, and you don't really want thousands of pieces of glass flying around everywhere, although I do believe that some of the CRTs in the compacts had an implosion safety feature of some sort- one of my upgraded Pluses has a label which states that, although I wouldn't trust it).