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| opt2not:
Took a couple days before posting the last few tasks to be done (for now). After bringing it into the house, I had to rearrange my office/game room to accomodate my new cab, so that took a bit of time to moving things around and hook-up everything again. For the cabinet I finished off cleaning the wiring and re-populating it into the cabinet. One of the things that bugs me in these japanese cabinets are these cable ties. They tend to lose their stickiness in the pads, so you have cables dangling around willy-nilly. I replaced the double sided foam tape on all the ones that were worn out and put them back into their original spots: Clean and organized: The rubber grommets came in, which fit perfectly. I also repainted the black screws holding my monitor down. The darkness!: Here's pro-tip for people putting cabinets on carpet and want to be able to slide them around when re-positioning. When I used to play ice hockey, I used to get really bad blisters and calices on the bottom of my feet from my hockey skates. One of the tips that a teammate gave me was to tape my feet up with duct tape. Not kidding. The duck tape is not only strong and sticky enough to stay on your feet, but also reduces the friction inside your skates, lessening the amount of chafing and rubbing on your feet. This is a tip for hikers too, it greatly helps keep your feet from blistering. I applied this same knowledge to the feet of my cabinet so I can slide it around on carpet if need be. I only had white Duct tape on hand, Silver is the best because it has the more slippery contact, but this will do for now: Cut-off the exccess: Done, protected cabinet feet from blisters and calices ;) I put everything back together, but I still wasn't satisfied with the monitor. The convergence was off, and couldn't get it to align properly after fiddling with it for an hour: Turned out it needed just a bit of a rejuv on the red gun, so I hit it once and saw those satisfying cleaning sparks in the neck, and was able to easily converge it after. Super sharp and better brightness/contrast now! I'm really happy with the way the monitor turned out. It's super nice, and my tracking reading show that the guns are still really healthy, so I should be able to get a few more decades out of this tube. I wired everything back up, including the CP. I'm not going to show the wiring just yet because I wanna build a brand new harness for it. It's really hacked up, but I need it playable for tonight's stream. Got everything back up and did some test runs with a couple oldschool favorites. Here are the glory pics: I really love how the marquee light shines upwards into the topper, lighting up the flyer art i have in there: This concludes the bulk of the project. A couple things left I want to do with it over the next few weeks are...: 1. New CP harness 2. Acquire a 1 player panel 3. Apply the CP art to the bare metal surround once it arrives from Gateninety 4. Re-solder a new Jamma loom onto the Sega fingerboard. these adapters are so short and frail, you can barely reach a mounted board. I got a fresh loom I can use till i do a proper JAMMA conversion later on. 5. Install an audio amp. not being able to adjust the volume outside of the game PCB sucks I will be streaming from this fabulous cabinet tonight and giving a small tour of it. Feel free to pop-in and say hello! 6pm PST - https://www.twitch.tv/gillaxian |
| emphatic:
Man, a CRT rejuvinator is something everyone in this hobby should have access to. |
| opt2not:
--- Quote from: emphatic on November 29, 2020, 10:43:46 am ---Man, a CRT rejuvinator is something everyone in this hobby should have access to. --- End quote --- Agreed! If you're working on monitor repairs for your cabinets, a rejuvanator is a vital tool. Small update, I got around to building a longer Aero City-to-JAMMA adapter using a spare NOS Sanwa JAMMA loom I have been holding onto for a long while. This loom will eventually be used for the full JAMMA conversion I do to the cabinet in the future. I pulled the fingerboard off the adapter that came with the Moon Patrol PCB and cleaned it as best I could. Started soldering the newer wires, following the pinout specified in the Aero City manual. ...and Done! Now I don’t need to be struggling with that short original adapter. :cheers: |
| Arroyo:
This thing turned out great. Your speed in getting ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- done is mind boggling. I love candy cabs, and you did this one justice! |
| emphatic:
That loom looks great, I wish the Chinese made looms you can get on eBay had proper wire gauges like that. |
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