Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Atari Dominos - SOLD
Level42:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 22, 2005, 03:36:33 pm ---
That thing is gorgeous... just look at that tinted glass.
--- End quote ---
Actualy, it's not glass at all......;D It's plexiglass or whatever.
With the help of me friend Hans, we drove off this morning to go and get the cab.
When we arrived, the cab was already waiting for us outside :)
First impression: this is OLD (DUUUHHHHH) and it's worse than the pics looked like :-\
So I popped around, and there was no backdoor.. There were no burnt out pins on the edge of the PCB. In fact.......there was no PCB at all :'( :'( :'( :'(
This is a MAJOR disappointment. Where on earth will I find a Dominos PCB ??
The monitor is there, it's burnt in. The cab is in relatively ok condition. Lots of bolts rusting though, and there's more rust here and there. The marquee paint is still pretty ok, but there's some scratches.
The cp itself looks pretty OK, better then RayB's Dominos cab. The coin mech had been removed (cut wires). Anyway, I decided to pick it up, after all, it was free, and else the previous owner would have smashed it to pieces....
Hope it's ok to put a couple of pics here....all pics were made after we arrived safely at my house...
Level42:
Monitor and Ser.Nr.
Level42:
The sides, not too bad for a cab with manufacturing date of February 1977.
O, there's also one speaker missing....
RayB:
Sorry to hear about the missing parts! That sucks. I never see ANYTHING for Dominos on Ebay *EVER*.
What are you going to do?
Level42:
I really don't know yet.....it scares the death out of me to even put mains supply to it from the looks of it now....IF I can find the lead at all :-\
The guy who I got it from told me he got it way back in 1992 and it has stood in a shack for all that time...he had planned to make some kind of display thing of it.
Pretty much, it has lost it's heart. Don't think I can get a PCB if it's never even on e-bay. My only chance to find a compatible (ATR-2 ?) board and burn the roms...but even then....it's a TON of work. Needs replacing all bolts,needs serious metal work (sanding, painting). Need a new speaker (easy) and of course the cones and switches. Coin mech etc.
Well, of course I knew most of that, and I wanted to do it, but I pretty much expected the PCB still to be in there....
The CP looks pretty good Ray, a lot better then yours....
The Marquee is (as you prob know) painted on the "glass"... the colors are a bit better then yours, but there's some scratches on the paint and front side here and there....
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