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| DeLuSioNal29:
Interested in making two? |
| GearHead:
I'll let you know. If I end up getting my friend to fab it on his CNC router table the panel should be easy. Your Defender's artwork looks like it's in great shape! |
| DeLuSioNal29:
--- Quote from: GearHead on December 10, 2016, 04:20:00 pm ---I'll let you know. If I end up getting my friend to fab it on his CNC router table the panel should be easy. Your Defender's artwork looks like it's in great shape! --- End quote --- Sounds good. No rush. I'm not going to work on it until the Spring at the earliest. Artwork is in great shape and luckily the water damage on the bottom is on the black part of the artwork. I'm hoping I can cut it off and biscuit join the damaged areas, then simply mask everything off and paint those parts black. DeL |
| GearHead:
The "donor" machine will provide all the parts for the transplant. Everything needs a little work. First up - The Monitor The monitor was kind of working when I got the machine and then it slowly got worse. Things got dimmer and a loud pop was heard when I tried to adjust some settings. I installed a cap kit and a new flyback to the Wells Gardner 4900. After hooking the chassis back up there was no image. Luckily, I live an hour away from Sarah St. John's arcade in NH, The Pinball Wizard Arcade, one of the nicest arcades I've been to in a long time. She offered to help and threw the tube on a rejuvenator and zapped it several times. With my JROK multi-Williams board attached to it I got a nice bright picture! Monitors around here are hard to find so a huge shout out to Sarah. She also runs an arcade repair business so if you have a machine that needs work look her up at MyArcadeRepair. |
| GearHead:
Boardset The game was working when I picked up the machine but after getting the monitor working I kept getting RAM errors. I diverted a memory conversion kit from Bob Roberts I had for my Robotron over to this project and now things are finally working nicely. Here it is running on the original board set. Control Panel I moved the harness over from the donor control panel to the new control panel and plugged it in. I then had to spend a few hours "testing" the machine. |
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