Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
A Gallag to Galaga cabinet resto-mod. (new title)
HHaase:
Well, luck has dropped my first arcade cabinet on me for the princely sum of $40. Turns out that what I thought was a Galaga with a bad color scheme is actually a genuine Gallag board and a bootleg cabinet as well. That makes it time to sign up for a new forum, and all that good stuff.
It was 90% functional right from the start. The 2 player button is dead, as were all the lights. A couple bulbs, a new starter and ballast for the marquee, and all the lighting is up and running again already. The screen needed a good cleaning, looks like it had a thick layer of dark black dust on it, possibly some overspray?
The Board already had the color corrections and logo corrections done on it, to display a Midway Galaga logo and copyright. The work on the board looks like good quality, but the wiring work inside the cab makes me want to cry.
Anyway, on to the photos and info, just follow the link.
www.siegecraft.us/galaga.htm
Spyridon:
We're lazy here and don't like to click on external links. Post your pictures in this thread.
HHaase:
And here's what I'm dealing with. It sure does look like a Galaga cabinet at first glance, but in reality it isn't. No wheels, no metal kickpanel was ever on there, the whole thing is laminated this orange color. I have no idea who made this coin door, which needs a bucket. I can't see any evidence that it was ever any other color, which makes sense as I can't contemplate who would WANT to make it this shade of Brady Bunch decorating. I'm half tempted to make it look like a factory Bosconian converted cab, with the white sides. I also really like the white-front / black side version you see on the old sales flyers, with the Galaxian styled marquee. If I go that direction, of course i'll need to replace the whole front panel and coin door with a proper style.
This guy has some photos of a very similar bootleg ms. pacman cabinet. Mine's got some slight differences from this one, such as the coin door, but it's very very close otherwise.
http://www.mylstar.com/mspacuprights.html
The overlay is only half-there, with a silly green patterned piece for the bottom half, and an acrylic cover to the top half. The control panel looks to have been hacked up a decent number of times, judging by the extra holes and un-used wiring, plus the a wico 4-way stick set up as a 2-way. This is going to get replaced with a proper 2-way stick and galaga/galaxian panel when I can find one cheap enough to restore. No rush though, as I want to take care of the wiring problems first. I'm pretty short of free-time lately with a 1 year old daughters, so I don't expect this to be a quick job.
The guy I bought if from said he has "somebody" who used to do the repair work for him at $75 a visit. Looking at the quality of the wiring modifications, it's almost criminal to have charged real money for this work. Some connections have these telephone crimps on them, some are just twist and tape jobs, a few are soldered but left exposed. For some reason there's a lot of 3" or so pigtails added in for no visibile reason. Solder quality on the switches is poor. I'm guessing though that the board was sent out for repair, as the work on it is much better from what I can see. It's already been modified for the color and logo corrections, which is why I didn't spot the Gallag board right away when play testing.
WunderCade:
So was that a former Pacman or Galaxian cab?
HHaase:
--- Quote from: WunderCade on February 25, 2010, 11:45:03 pm ---So was that a former Pacman or Galaxian cab?
--- End quote ---
None of the above. The cab is a bootleg too as far as I can tell. I'm going to try and snap some photos of the backside tomorrow to show what I mean. I'm still keeping a close eye though to see if I'm wrong, that will make a difference in what direction I take with it.
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