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saleem:
so took delivery of a midway space invaders cocktail today.had ideas of converting it to galaga (my holy grail) but,i am going to breathe some life into this baby and hopefully give it a second life as an invaders.

so just what have i got?

heres some side shots:



so its got a 1 coin slot coin door all wired up working,us coin mech by looks of things.the grills and the coin door will be shot blasted,the grills will be powder coated and the door i will spray satin black.the side door which house the boardset has the same original key.some twonk took black spray to it and tried to spray the corners and got black spray in areas they shouldnt have,so i had to clean up the laminate a bit,also the boardset door had silver spray all over it for some unknown reason,hence the need for me to get rid of that,i have had good go at cleaning it up but,still needs more.theres just a small chunk of laminate missing from the bottom of the coin door side.the legs need a small amount of gluing and filler and repainting.

control panels:


say no more!both control paddles are knacked and the control panels are suffering with rust and wear.they will be shot blast,primed and i will have to buy repros cpo's (if available) will check on that in future,same as buying new paddle controllers.

moving onto the top glass:


no reproduction underlays here,thats all original and thats 30 years of wear.will have to remove all rough paint and use paint pens to bring it back,same gos for the letters,logos etc etc:


got other projects on the go so steady as this one gos i think,hopefully will get this tip top and back to itself again and hopefully another 30 years to go.

oh and yes the monitor has burn.its a wgv1001 so its pretty rare chassis for uk,now i got 2 of them,1 is in my space zap.midway must have used wg for their machines in the early 80's.
 :)

Darren01274:
Where did you buy this from?

saleem:
ebay,like 3 weeks ago.

got the exact same prob yours has,it has the same lines you got,it looks like the reset voltage is way to high,it is like 3.3v when it should be 0.3 :laugh:

i snipped the reset wire from the power supply board,i inserted the end into gnd on the edge connector of the boardset.now i get the thick lines and i can hear the space ship that fly across the top and loud hum,i think its the thump thump sound of the invaders.

unfortunately,1 rom chip had broken leg,i broke 2 other rom chips legs as they was real brittle.luckily i have 4 rom chips at hand,2 on the board also so now i need to get the roms burned.

i got a programmer but,i dont know what adaptor i would need.

so now its sorting the roms out prob.
:)

Darren01274:
Did you get it from ebay.co.uk or ebay.com good look with getting it working looks a great cabinet :-)

saleem:
i got it from .co.uk,its american table though,i have had to buy a step down transformer.bar faulty boards the table is all there,yes theres parts that need replacing,all in good time.just get the cab tidied up and try and get the boards working.someone is already asking £125 for this board set,even in part exchange i know these boards are worth half of that easily,the fact the the garbage screen is shown is proof that the boards are not totaled,same gos for yours.

they say to remove all the rom chips and put them back 1 at a time and try shorting them to see what happens,theres a little more to it but,if you google in the right place theres a wealth of info.so next stop for me is to get the roms all burned again and then try that.

i can concentrate on my other projects and clean this table top up and i think its boards need a bit of cleaning also.
:)

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