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| pbj:
Nice to see a project thread around here. :cheers: |
| yotsuya:
I have no doubt this will be awesome, I enjoyed seeing your other scratch builds as well Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
| bobbyb13:
Nice of you to notice James! And hope to see you out here again soon Paul. I'm hoping to do more fun arcade machine activity work for the next month. And fix my damn pinball machines that I don't understand fully yet. :D Today I actually got to sand this thing out after a first sealing coat (trying something new- urethane based varnish I guess it is) and was reminded that half of this cabinet is made of what I now refer to as Covidwood. The only "cabinet" plywood available here through whole mess was this crap stuff made from some Araucaria species that was NOT well sorted before peeling for plys and was NOT sanded to anything past about 40 grit in production. Either that or the knife they used to roll these sheets was badly pitted and hadn't been sharpened in 30 years. The finish was just awful. It makes for really irritating finish work on my end and I had forgotten I still had half a sheet of it left. In retrospect I should've used it for a goat shed. Or just burned it. Next phase was reinventing the wheel for cramming a huge tube into an ever smaller space- just in case. I got a welder recently and thought I might be using it for this but may have come up with a way to hang some steel L bracket without getting sparky. I would post a pic but can't. I'm giving up on the photo thing for a bit as now I can't even get anything past the security check either, not matter how small it is or what it is named or what type of file, or... Rrrr- |
| bobbyb13:
Having luck with pics! Since Jason built this board to be a swp in to an original cabinet I figured it might just be easier to use a bunch of original guts. Before shipping costs went intergalactic I had succeeded in getting a few Atari power bricks, but one was for a raster tube game. The rest of the voltages are good (now that I rebuilt the AR-II anyway) but the secondary from that transformer was never going to work to run a vector monitor. Luckily I had also bought a few toroidal transformers for just such an emergency. I mated the secondaries to give me the center-tapped 50 VDC that a real vector chassis wants and slightly altered the really very nice reproduction Star Wars harness that Ken at GoldenAgeArcadeParts made for me a while back- so this should work fine. I had to rethink routing for the harness and arrangement of the brick and power supply to get things to flownproperly but after clipping a few zip ties and rearranging a few times I got something that doesn't look super trashy and will work. Coming together! I got out my Amp monitor parts too and ran them on my test rig to set voltages there and all looks good so far. Wish I didn't have to be up at 4am for work or I would go back to the shop and work on it some more! |
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