Even with my logic probe I really don’t have the equipment necessary to properly diagnose the problems with my broken boards. While at an “arcade party” down in Western MA I was introduced to a guy named Adam who does Z80 and 6502 based repairs, and he’s only a hop, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The control panel is now in place. A couple minor things to do like tie back the wiring with wire ties, but done. About six months ago I learned that black bolts aren’t actually black…they’ve been blued using the same process that they use to “blue” gun barrels. There are […]
I’ve been biting my nails over applying the artwork on the control panel because…well, it’s an expensive learning experience if I screw it up. I’ve taken way too long on preparing the control panel. Mostly because the old paint/CPO adhesive was such a pain to remove. But partially because I’ve […]
The disassembled control panel has been sitting on the chest freezer in the kitchen for a month now. So I assembled it. I still need new bolts to hold the CPO on, but the four I have on there right now will do to keep things together. One thing I […]
I used electrolysis to strip down/derust all the marquee bracket, and repainted them. They’re a 100% improvement over what I started with. I could not get the CP bolts off without snapping three of them. Luckily I have another set on the way from a KLOV member. I painted the […]