Repairing arcade games, pinball machines and jukeboxes in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine
This first picture is one with the shroud removed. It more or less fell off due to disrepair. I will need to repair the plastic that fixes it to the top of the cabinet. This next picture I included to demonstrate how much RUST is on the cabinet. This is one of the speaker grills.
I know it’s a photo of a packed in cab, but it’s the only one I have so far. Currently boots to garbage. When I pulled the AR/II R30 was burned. I swapped the AR/II with the one from Centipede. I also fixed the burn on the edge connector because R30 burned up. Then I [...]
Pulled the monitor out of Donkey Kong 3 to see what this would do. The answer is “absolutely nothing.” I even pulled the board out to see if it would work in Donkey Kong 3 (maybe something was wrong with the cab?) but alas, the answer was no.
Should have attached it to my last post. I could edit it, but…naaaah…
The Golden Tee ’98 PCB has been mounted to the side of the cabinet. Had to get a bit creative with how the wiring was guided around the cabinet, but it works and is clean. Rigged up a proper trackball harness, that works now. It was rolling REALLY roughly, so I disassembled it. Surprise surprise, [...]
Finally remembered to grab my camera on the way to the shop one day. And another shot from the other side. Workbench area. It’s a work in constant progress.
Like all the other cabinets that I bought in that bulk buy, this is also full of mouse nests. Also the time it spent in that horrible storage area has made it a bit moldy. I stripped it down to the bare wood, sanded down the insides and vacuumed. The circuit board cage and power [...]
I forgot to share this story: when I installed the work bench in my shop it was only being supported on three of it’s six legs: both back legs on each end and the front middle one. For what I was using it for it was just fine as it more or less stood like [...]
Over the last couple months I’ve been reading about many “warehouse raids” where guys go to ops warehouses and buy a lot of their old equipment. Usually I hear about then after they’ve happened. Yesterday was an exception. I took the boys and we went down to West Springfield, MA and I got to poke [...]
I popped the EZ I used in D2K in this just to see if it works. With some tweaking it finally came up perfectly. I tried playing a game but couldn’t spray. An investigation turned up a broken switch holder on the spray button. Of course, Nintendo used special holders instead of common ones. I’m [...]
