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| ADP Lady Bug restoration: the licensed German cab [finished] |
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| mourix:
Time to deal with the flaking bezels. The black paint basically fell off even when cleaning carefully. This is what I'm up against. I scraped off the black paint with a spatula, spray painted the bezel black, and added clear coat and some silicone to reinforce the smoked glass. The back glass got a treatment with clear coat and acrylic paint. It's not perfect, but a hell of a lot better. Lookin' sharp 8) |
| Micha_Mx:
Hello Mourix! Reeealy great work. :applaud: Do you have a manual / circuit diagram for the Universal 8106 - II Main Board? (I only have a pdf file for the older, splitted 8106 A and B boards.) My LadyBug is with the same board as yours (8106 - II). I have the Cocktail-Table Version from Sega. ...and I own an original printed "adp LadyBug Service Manual" in german. Are you from Germany too? You can send me a personal message in german! Thank you! :) Micha |
| mourix:
Hey Micha! I am your neighbor from the Netherlands 8) Sorry for the late reply, my internship took over my life for a bit. Unfortunately I only have the ADP service manual as well, but not the schematic. I attached my scan here for reference. |
| mourix:
I see my internship ending in a few months, so I really want to finish this project by summer. Besides some minor tweaks, the joystick is the only remaining task here. This project has taken literally years and I will finish it properly :notworthy: So let's summarize things for a bit. The original joystick was some unobtanium Universal (clone maybe?) leaf joystick with a special smaller mounting hole layout and bolts embedded into the metal control panel. My quest for a Wico stick in Europe was a bust, so right now I am looking at importing one from the US. My budget is about 100$ for a proper stick, but in practice that means 50$ for the stick and 50$ for shipping and import duties to my little country far away.. I can choose either a short joystick and drill mounting holes in it, or go for a joystick meant for a wooden CP and make a metal spacer to line up everything without drilling. Right now I am thinking of getting a GroovyGameGear Dominux8 with 4-way restrictor and premium red balltop. Does anyone want to stop me? :P |
| Mike A:
Give me a little bit of time. If I can't source the proper stick for you I will get a different leaf stick and send it to you for free. The only stipulation is that you have to send me a pic of you playing the cab when it is finished so I can hang it on the wall in my arcade room. |
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