anyone got experience using deguassing wands, such as the one pictured, on CRTs that don't have built-in degaussing coils? do they work? any sage advice from arcade & retro tech enthusiasts?

the little 4-inch CRTs we used in the infopoints at EMF Camp have some nonlinear warping that isn't corrected by tweaking the deflection oscillator amplitude/phase adjustment pots, and also isn't consistent with the tube curvature, so I'm suspicious of static magnetic fields.

a generic deguassing wand. it's a green plastic block with a mains power cable coming out of it. my guess is they're feeding AC into a magnetic coil, probably with a series resistor, to produce an alternating magnetic field.
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