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| opt2not:
--- Quote from: emphatic on December 08, 2020, 08:17:07 am ---That loom looks great, I wish the Chinese made looms you can get on eBay had proper wire gauges like that. --- End quote --- Yeah me too. I really wished I bought more of these looms when they were available. I got this spare a while ago on ebay, the seller had a few available but they were expensive so I only grabbed one. I shouldn't have been so cheap and picked up multiples! They're the best looms I've seen. |
| opt2not:
My apologies, i didn't close off this restoration. The cab is completely done now. Here's the last bit of progress made a couple months ago: I re-crimped a new and updated 1-player control panel harness with nicer QD’s and a joystick JST connector used on most modern joysticks now. Ended up Receiving a repro panel, and I gotta say, this is the highest quality repro you’re going to find out there right now. The Sega Logo and silver lines are reflective!! Incredible quality. The bottom is also very clean and reflective, plus the mounts are properly placed and gives you a lot of versatility in different mounting plates you can use. I highly recommend alberto’s panels! I applied the surround overlay using my vinyl art technique when I restore wood cabs. Really easy to go on: I screwed up though. I should have painted the surround first to get the overlay to look brighter than the print. I didn’t realize the print was a bit translucent, so it took on a darker tone when it was applied to the bare metal. No matter, it doesn’t look too bad when on the cabinet. added my choice of yellow controls with an oversized 45mm balltop (standard is 35mm dia) Wiring is a hellava lot cleaner than before: I wanted a subtle bling to it, so I added a led start button to p1 and wires 5v up to it to power on. AND that’s about it! all that’s left is to get some wheels that are missing for the back of this thing, but I’d say this restoration is pretty much complete for now! thanks to all that followed along. This is a glorious cabinet now. Here's a few more glory pictures of it running. I've been doing twitch.tv streams from it as well, if anyone is interested in dropping by to say hello. I stream regularily on Thursdays at 6pm - 7:30pm PST, and late night streams on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10:30pm PST till whenever I get tired. |
| emphatic:
Looks amazing. I agree on alberto's panels, they are amazing. May I ask, why the 45 mm ball top? :cheers: |
| opt2not:
--- Quote from: emphatic on March 08, 2021, 11:37:35 am ---Looks amazing. I agree on alberto's panels, they are amazing. May I ask, why the 45 mm ball top? :cheers: --- End quote --- LS-58 + Big balltop + kowal short throw mod + extended shaft + 1.5lbs spring feels pretty good as a shmup stick setup. The 45mm ball has a bit more weight and surface area for my big mitts. I’m current tryin a bunch of configurations for optimal shmuppin, including a battop right now. |
| emphatic:
--- Quote from: opt2not on March 08, 2021, 12:43:04 pm ---for my big mitts. --- End quote --- Gotcha. --- Quote from: opt2not on March 08, 2021, 12:43:04 pm ---I’m current tryin a bunch of configurations for optimal shmuppin, including a battop right now. --- End quote --- I've tried so many sticks, Seimitsu, Magstick, SUZO 500... - mods up the whazoo. I've finally landed on SANWA JLF (unthinkable at first) with just a bigger actuator and a tougher spring. I have those in all of my panels now. Did you try mounting it lower? That affects the throw as well, I guess. I bought KOWALs short throw mod for LS-56 at one time, but never got around to trying it before trying/loving the JLF/actuator mod. |
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