Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
I don't believe it, another classic added => Centipede ! FINISHED !!!!
SithMaster:
Chad chad chad.
I could have meant why does keep getting the cabs/projects as in how is he able to get away with it. He doesnt live alone.
Yes people who work harder get the better things.
Im going to stop now so Level42 doesnt yell at me. Sorry for the offtopicness.
edit-Level42 that pretty interesting that when they replaced the cocktail with an upright more people played it. In would figure in a bar people would avoid playing for lack of a place to put down a beer.
edit-nevermind i think i read that wrong. they just added a bigger cocktail cab.
Level42:
aha.....yeah......my wife is great about them....well not as great as Darthnuno's wife, but she accepts them, and there is still that long-term goal of putting them all either upstairs or in a new shed in the garden....
I guess she prefers me to play with the games then with other.....ahhh never mind :D
I don't think I've ever seen a 19" centipede cocktail. From the info, the thing was larger, not just the monitor.
Also interesting: There was a lot of negative response about the smaller size of the trackball. Lots of test players wanted a 3" (hence 3" on Millipede ?) There are also test-player suggestions that there should be exploding things on the screen (also included on Millipede) and bees. ( I think Millipede has bees ?)
Not a single word about the placing of the fire-button though.....I had hoped to read something about that.
Level42:
Despite my son's birthday last weekend I managed to do a little work on the Centi....
My Centipede was equipped with some black-painted woodstrips on the bottom of both sides and the front. I was pretty sure that this was not original, and after seeing Luc's Irish Centipede, I was sure that this was not standard.
So, I wanted to remove them. Gotta say, they did a pretty good job. It was a bit of a gamble, because of course there would be damage of the nails, and possibly of the removing tools...but I figured I'd like it better still.
So I put it on a cart and started to pry with pliers and later a knife that I put behind the strip....
Clearly, the black paint of the strips transfered to the vinyl.... I could scrub most of it off relatively easy. Also turns out this is now the whitest part of the side-art, so I guess these strips were put on very early.
Also, time to install the new T-molding........only to discover that the T-mold I ordered at Suzo is NOT wide enough :banghead: It leaves a small part open at the side. Doesn't look like it should, but I figured to finish it just as well.... I couldn't really see much difference in width when I held the old and new op top of eachother. Could be it's a metric size, just a little narrower.....next time, it will be t-molding.com again......
It turned out the custom woodwork was also used as alternative to the original legs. Pretty firmly built. Since it doesn't show much on the front (black on black), I decided to let it there where it is.
Now I need to repair the holes and restore the "vinyl" look at the bottom sides. Anyone have any suggestions ?
Level42:
Ok, remember this:
Thougt it was about time to fix this mess. I still had the monitor (TV) and rest of the electronics on seperate mains cables, so I put them together to let it work with just one mains plug and start everything up in 1 go.
I also replaced the experimental SCART wiring with a proper cable. Soldered all the resistors at the right places and neatly isolated everything with shrink-tube. Fixed the cabling everywhere.
Don't look at the coin door, as that is still a mess....
Here's how I tapped into the +12V and the +5V wires for the SCART cable. These snap-things are great when you need to tap the same voltage (or signal) to an extra wire. The main advantage is that you don't have to cut and strip the cable. You simply put it on the existing wire, add the extra wire and press the metal "knife" with pliers. Done.
I even used one side of a resistor on one of them, no problem (to lower the +5V to +3V).
I also used them to tap into the +5V and GND wires of the trackball to power the super bright LED:
You can still see the old wires that I had temporally soldered to the encoder pcb.Of course I removed them a bit later.
And the same for the fire button:
O and, yes I did clip of the excess on the ty-raps..... :D
Level42:
Here's a better pic of the tap-on connector I used. Anyone else using them ? I bought them at Suzo, so I bet Happ sells them too.
They're great.
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