A Nintendo Red Tent - My First Original Cab

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meyer980:
Some small updates this week. I have two fully working monitors. The monitor I recapped and replaced the flyback on wasn't starting for some reason. I couldn't find anything I had done wrong so brought it to a local repair shop (Paradise Arcade) for their opinion. They quickly determined the replacement flyback was faulty. We put the old one back in and it's good to go, great picture. Apparently, this is a known problem. Many (if not all) of this specific reproduction flyback just aren't working for people. A real bummer.

Separately, I finished removing the hood from the machine finally. This took forever because several of the small brass screws were impossibly stuck and strip super easy.

I ended up using a combination of WD-40 and a high torque low speed drill to remove most, and a screw extractor set on the two worst ones.

The Isolation Transformer was missing the power switch (a common mod operators did back in the day) so I put one back in.

Finally, cleaned up the coin plates. Here's a clean one next to how it started. Both of mine have a lot of scratches that I can't do too much about but I think they still look good.

wp34:
That's cool that Paradise helped you with your monitor. Great to see you making progress. :cheers:

meyer980:

--- Quote from: wp34 on May 14, 2021, 07:50:30 am ---That's cool that Paradise helped you with your monitor. Great to see you making progress. :cheers:

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Thanks wp34, working on an original is very new for me. Learning a lot!

Along those "learning a lot" lines, I'm learning how long/hard it is to disassemble a Red Tent. There are bolts everywhere and I think most of them are original because they're practically locked in. I've had to use a vice grip on a large number of them. Anyway, I finally have the top half off. Each day I make a little progress here or there.

Mike A:
When you disassemble take more pics than you think you need along the way.

wp34:

--- Quote from: meyer980 on May 14, 2021, 11:18:29 am ---
Along those "learning a lot" lines, I'm learning how long/hard it is to disassemble a Red Tent. There are bolts everywhere and I think most of them are original because they're practically locked in. I've had to use a vice grip on a large number of them. Anyway, I finally have the top half off. Each day I make a little progress here or there.

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--- Quote from: meyer980 on May 10, 2021, 01:59:29 pm ---

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Yeah this picture gave me nightmares. Like working on an old car. ;D

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