RE: VECTOR: Asteroids with no video

I know Peter said you don't need to discharge the monitor, but everyone else 
I talk to says to.

As Peter put it "you dont need to discharge monitors unless your clumsy or 
stupid", add to that if you don't know what you are doing.  I obviously 
don't know what I am doing otherwise I would not have posted to this list.  
So I am going to discharge it for my own safety.

Alright, making the discharge screwdriver resistor thing is neat, but I'd 
rather have the right tool already made if it is affordable.  I checked ebay 
for HV probe and prices range from $10 to $500.  So the question is what do 
I need, what's the difference in price?

If it is one that is in the $10-$50 I would rather have the right tool than 
make one.  If for $10 I might as well, otherwise it's going to cost $3 for 
10 100k resistors, wire, and aligator clip at radioshack.  If I made my own 
I'd go the Bob Roberts route and grind the screwdriver so the wire had a 
good place to clip onto, currently I don't have an extra screwdriver I'd do 
that too so I'd have to buy it.  So, if the $10 HV probe is all I need I 
might as well go that route.