{"id":416,"date":"2009-11-29T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pealefamily.net\/tech\/arcade\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-11-29T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:26:18","slug":"warehouse-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Warehouse Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple months I&#8217;ve been reading about many &#8220;warehouse raids&#8221; where guys go to ops warehouses and buy a lot of their old equipment.  Usually I hear about then <em>after<\/em> they&#8217;ve happened.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was an exception.  I took the boys and we went down to West Springfield, MA and I got to poke around a couple warehouses down there.<\/p>\n<p>There was a TON of old equipment, pretty much stacked this way and that.  The op was very interested that I did repair, and I can see myself going down and doing a lot of work for him.  I hope this happens.<\/p>\n<p>Picked up a Pac-Man bezel glass (with only half the artwork there, but that&#8217;s okay since I just need the glass and not the art), the control panel to a Popeye (better condition than the one I have now!) and the button holder to a Nintendo control panel (which is good because the one I have on the Donkey Kong 3 is broken in two).  <\/p>\n<p>I also picked up an orange leaf switch button which I was <em>sure<\/em> was a Nintendo button, but it wouldn&#8217;t fit in the hole on the CP, so it clearly wasn&#8217;t.  I don&#8217;t want to fight with this thing any more, so instead of trying to find one of these fairly uncommon buttons I&#8217;m just going to make the hole a bit bigger so the button will fit through.  I hate to do it, but at least it&#8217;ll be playable again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple months I&#8217;ve been reading about many &#8220;warehouse raids&#8221; where guys go to ops warehouses and buy a lot of their old equipment. Usually I hear about then after they&#8217;ve happened. Yesterday was an exception. I took the boys and we went down to West Springfield, MA and I got to poke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,16,11],"tags":[52,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highscoresrepair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}