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CENTIPEDE cabaret Restoration - works again
FrizzleFried:
If the speaker grills are the same as my Atari cocktail, they appear to be rivets...bloody rivets!
RayB:
Rivets are all gone. Now using black carriage bolts instead.
Level42:
Hey Ray, great job !!!! Any "finished" pictures ??
Why didn't I find this thread earlier ? I envy you, you always seem to have (working) PCB's on the same cabs we have :) (Remember Domino's) :)
I also wondered about the marquee retainers on my Centipede....what a stupid idea to use rivets !
I had the same thought as Arcadefever, I have exactly the same bit set here (kinda forgot to give it back to my former employer....sorry :P) and I thought one of those would make it possible to remove them...good I read this !
I must say in general that Atari has the wost "service-friendly" cabs from what I have here so far.....I mean, you need to remove the staples of the carton bezel to get the monitor out !
(well you know what really happems, the bezel just tears and the staples stay in....not a big problem though, it's out of sight and indeed they're not needed.)
Than the power supply......a whole range of weird voltages are required...They are all fine on mine....but the PCB doesn't work.... :( (Check out http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=63654.0)
Wanna trade your Centipede PCB for all the Dominos parts you want :P ;) ;) ;) ;)
For now, I won't do much on the Centipede...Gotta get the last things done on the Galaxian, and I just won a PCB set for my Mario Bros. It's untested so please, let me be lucky for once so that it's working......
RayB:
Hey. All is not that good though. Didn't you read that my monitor, that I repaired, stopped working? :(
I doubt rivets were used for your marquee retainers. Are you sure they aren't security bits? That's what Atari always uses for regular marquees. Mine just isn't supposed to be removed. There's no "service" reason to. Same for the speaker grill. If the speaker needs servicing, it can be accessed via the inside.
Level42:
--- Quote from: RayB on March 06, 2007, 11:30:53 am ---Hey. All is not that good though. Didn't you read that my monitor, that I repaired, stopped working? :(
I doubt rivets were used for your marquee retainers. Are you sure they aren't security bits? That's what Atari always uses for regular marquees. Mine just isn't supposed to be removed. There's no "service" reason to. Same for the speaker grill. If the speaker needs servicing, it can be accessed via the inside.
--- End quote ---
You're right, I just checked the Service manual, these are bolts....duh !
Gotta also say that the Atari service docs are probably the best I've seen so far .....
Yeah, I read about your monitor...did you check F901 ? Mine is blown and I measure a short on X01....you could also power it on and GENTLY tap on the PCB's and see if anything happens (use a mirror). If so, bad solder joints...
And did you check out the video wiring you mentioned earlier ?
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