Another day of work on the beastie. The electrolysis made the rust come off very easily, so I was able to strip down both marquee retainers, the coin door frame and whatever that metal piece is that sits in the back of the cab in no time flat. Primed and […]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
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Rebuilt the K4600 today after my Mouser order showed up. Box was mangled, and I was pissed, but the contents were fine. It was thrashed – broken solder joints on the card connectors, dirty, rusty and of course original caps, I was surprised it actually worked. I haven’t fired it […]
The labels for the fuses were brown after 30 years. So I scanned them in and cleaned up the images. Looked really good, and I printed them out. Unfortunately my printer missed a couple dots here and there and needed to be reprinted. For some odd reason, I closed the […]
I’ve got a lot to do on this. 99.99% of it is cleaning. * strip down all metal parts of rust and refinish * clean the outside, esp the artwork * rebuild the CP * rewire harness for 4 way joystick * repair the wiring, it’s been badly hacked in […]
Finally, some pictures. Start off with left, front, right and rear shots before I’ve done anything to this unit. A shot of the bezel and coin door/kickplate. A shot after I stripped all the wiring and the wooden mounting plate from the bottom and before I sanded/cleaned/vacuumed. I touched up […]