Cocktail Restoration - Super Pac-Man for ZapCon '16

[yotsuya]

It's alive!

[harveybirdman]

Taking a break from the no offense Superbowl to say...

Looking good Brotoplasm! I'm going to have to play some in Mame. I've never bothered to figure out how to play.

 

[yotsuya]

Taking a break from the no offense Superbowl to say...

Looking good Brotoplasm! I'm going to have to play some in Mame. I've never bothered to figure out how to play.

 

It's a fun game. There's less focus on mazes and patterns and more on points and ghosts.

[yotsuya]

I find very few things in this hobby as rewarding as restoring a Midway coin door. New plates look beautiful when installed.

[Wyo]

Subbed!  Looks great so far!

The only thing wrong with your restore so far is thhat the jamma harness is to many colors.  All Purple wires would have been a better choice.  (see what I did there Chance? )

I agree tho, TQ has the best harness I've found as well.

[yotsuya]

Subbed!  Looks great so far!

The only thing wrong with your restore so far is thhat the jamma harness is to many colors.  All Purple wires would have been a better choice.  (see what I did there Chance? )

I agree tho, TQ has the best harness I've found as well.

Yeah, I'm not that anal retentive. I can't ever think of a situation where I'd open up my cabinet to show people and say, "Look, all the wires match!!!!1!!!"

The only drawback to the harness is the lack of quick disconnects and daisy chained ground, but in both cases when I've used it, I was connecting to existing harness work anyway, so I didn't need either, but if you were using it in a scratch build, you'd have to supply your own. The quality of the parts TQ uses is worth it, though.

[Wyo]

LOL!

A good jamma harness really does make a difference.  I just got one in a 100 dollar 60n1 kit and I was like, wtf is this? Ha.  The wires were like Pieces of kite string.  Get what you pay for, that's for sure.

[yotsuya]

LOL!

A good jamma harness really does make a difference.  I just got one in a 100 dollar 60n1 kit and I was like, wtf is this? Ha.  The wires were like Pieces of kite string.  Get what you pay for, that's for sure.

Exactly. Especially with the power lines. On the cheap harnesses, it cracks me up because the power wires LOOK like they're thicker and more robust, but when you cut them you realize they just doubled up on the insulation.

I buy cheap harnesses for the the ground loop and joystick/button/coin door/video/speaker wires, cut them off the harness, and I toss the rest.

[yotsuya]

Oh, and here's a tip for installing the new Midway door plate...

I got the repro from Ivanx on KLOV (he sells them on eBay as well). He put together a nice installation video that's straight and to the point. Take your old plate, put it on the back of the new plate, and use that to mark where the new holes will go. Get a 1/16 or so drill bit, and drill the 6 holes. Go up 1 step more to enlarge the holes and remove and burrs from the holes made with the first bit. Then what I do is I get 6 brad nails that fit the holes. Then I remove the adhesive backing from the plate, put the nails through the holes from the top side, and the use those nails to guide the plate down onto the coin door. The nails allow the holes to line up perfectly. Press down to make a good adhesive seal, then use the provided rivets to fasten the plate down permanently. Using this method to guide the plate down ensures the rivets fit though the plate and the door, and the plate ends up perfectly straight. In my photo, you see the plate and the nails. I need to find my rivets. Once I rivet the plate down, I can put the hardware back on the door. I just use a hammer and a metal punch to flatten the rivet.

More to come...

[yotsuya]

Nothing gets the pants messier than a properly riveted repro Midway plate...

[yotsuya]

And this just starts the afterparty...

[yotsuya]

Getting parts to wire up the lights in this bad boy....

[jennifer]

    Aircraft rivet squeezers work really nice although they are kinda spendy, The dies don't flatten the head, You can also retrofit a arbor press to do the same thing however that kinda limits the reach you can achieve, A die in a vice works good also but tends to wander somewhat so if you weld plates to the shaft it becomes considerably more stable... Jennifer is a little surprised you had to go buy wire and crimps, the visions of you in my mind are Some crazy "Doc Brown" workshop, rummaging thru giant piles of that kinda stuff late in the night.

[yotsuya]

Well, I rewired the coin door completely because it was a mess, plus I wanted to rewire the control panel lighting with proper color coded wire and guage for 12v and 5v.

Mission accomplished. Everything glows properly, and I know nothing is going to melt on me.

[Malenko]

I know whos winning the UCA restore award next year! 

Great thread, great pictures, and great posts! That coin door looks amazeballs

[yotsuya]

Thanks, bro. Really, the only thing left is to do the art underlay (there's none available online, so I'm vectoring it myself),  And order the replacement glass for the top, which I'm going to do in about 2 weeks.

[dmckean]

[yotsuya]

I've slowed down on this since the only thing left is the artwork, but I did put the t-molding on yesterday.