asteroids cocktail table lives again ...

[arcadefever]

When i was a kid, i never had a chance to play ASTEROIDS...
i always played the game on console or pc...but everything changes when 3 years ago , on a trip to orlando , i visited "disney quest".
i found the cab there and played it for an hour and completly fall in love with the game   

the vector monitor give a completly different experience...to a point that i cant play the game on MAME anymore   

6 months ago i spot a cheap auction on ebay !!! cocktail version...but incomplete...

the monitor is missing the hight voltage cage
the audio board look ok
no pcb



first i decide to give a little boost to the audio board and give it a new capkit

before



after



after that, do one of the most important thing when you have an old atari cab, change the big blue




because it is in the psu block i have to take it apart ...



new one installed...



for the pcb, i didnt wan to mess around...i got a non working pcb and send it to repair...
a full check up and parts have been change...work like a charm now ...



now the most difficult...the monitor...

but i got lucky , i spot a guy selling a "go5" 15" exactly what i need, he say that the main board as received a capkit, but not the high voltage cage...

so i went back to school and got me the manual and andy fromm arcade school book   



after hours of reading, i am finally able to look at the monitor completly...i did some minor repair and also recap the high voltage cage...

   but after 15 minutes the graphics are kind of blooming ...
i post here to found out what it coulod be , and i found out that it come from the high voltage diode from the high voltage cage...

i order 3 from bob roberts just in case and voila 

here a few pictures of the monitor

black and whyte vector monitor...







ok, now time to put everything back...







i also change the speaker and the volume control



now much more easy .....the cleaning part  :www:

got some new buttons



before:



after:



time to power on  :mat:





YHEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA



wowwwwwwwww the picture is CRYSTAL CLEAR

here few pictures of the table done:





Well after a week of playing i have to say that ASTEROIDS is for me the best arcade game ever   

thanks also to bob roberts where i was abe to found all the parts that i need  

http://homearcade.org/BBBB/

 

[arcadefever]

i decided to do some deep cleaning 

starting with the power block...

BEFORE:



AFTER:





 

[cdbrown]

You;ve done an excellent job in getting the table in tip top shape.  Well done.  Thanks for all the before and after pictures - I enjoy them.  How did you go about the cleaning.  The surface of the power block is nice and shiney.

[arcadefever]

You;ve done an excellent job in getting the table in tip top shape.  Well done.  Thanks for all the before and after pictures - I enjoy them.  How did you go about the cleaning.  The surface of the power block is nice and shiney.

thanks ...

always nice to read comment like that after all this hard work 

i clean the metal first with a dry sponge and apply a metal polishing cream