Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
A Gallag to Galaga cabinet resto-mod. (new title)
HHaase:
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--- Quote from: HHaase on February 27, 2010, 11:20:04 am ---Have you ever seen anything with the handles cut into the top panel like that?
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Both Pac-Man and Galaxian have them. This cabinet looks just like one, with the exception of the coin door.
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Hmmm, that is pretty interesting to hear actually. It's very hard to find photos of the back and top of the cabinets online, and I hadn't seen any with the same style.
Still makes me curious though why the plain orange laminate on the sides, which appears to be original. Either that or somebody did a lot of work to put on a very hideous color. The back and inside are painted black, but not a drop of any other color anywhere that I can see. Nor any obvious areas where a sticker or other type of artwork had been removed. Just plain orange.
I've got a feeling that figuring out the coin door will answer all. Then again, I get false hopes pretty often.
Spyridon:
Here is the top / back area of my pac-man for comparison
SirPeale:
Why the orange laminate? Ops will routinely go the "cheap" route of converting cabinets. The guy that owned "Sazma Music" (which was sold to the guy I used to work for) would go to the hardware store and buy all their "seconds" paint - colors that didn't turn out right. At one point I was told that he got a five gallon bucket of this blue-ish paint because there were like a brazillion cabs in that color.
My guess? The laminate was either cheaper than painting, or the time/energy/effort ratio leaned toward laminating it since it's pretty much a "do it and get it back on route" kind of deal.
As for the coin door, the old one may have been damaged somehow and this was lying around, and the cab modified to accommodate it. The coin door on my Q-Bert bootleg definitely does not belong on it.
Let's see more photos of the interior, particularly the monitor mounting area, and perhaps underneath the bezel.
HHaase:
I'll try to snap some photos for you tonight of those spots for you. I also decided that the orange was just too hideous, so I grabbed hold of a loose edge and pulled. The entire side came off in one piece, the other side put up only a slightly tougher fight. Under the orange is just bare wood, with some layout pencil marks from during assembly. Top and front I haven't gotten around to yet. Still no sign of identifying marks anywhere, and I'm running out of places to look. So either the orange laminate was original, or it had laminate on it previously, which was stripped off and replaced. Were Pac's and Galaxians originally painted, or laminated?
I'm going over the pinout for the 44pin board connector, to get the 2p button working (never even connected), that looks simple enough but I would prefer a proper circuit diagram for the harness. I also want to connect the test circuit, but I can't tell yet how to connect that one up. Do I need to ground that connection, or supply power to it? If choice #2, does it need +5v or +12v. Gut instinct is telling me to just ground it out to test it. There's another connection on the pinout that I'm looking at called "table", what does that one mean? Is it for a tilt sensor? Or a safety interlock for the door on a cocktail table? Then I'm going to want to add the dip switches to the board, this one just has a couple jumper wires over the empty holes in the board.
SirPeale:
Pac-Man was painted (stencils) and Galaxian had silkscreened vinyl.
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