Author Topic: Star Wars Cockpit......SHE LIVES !!!!! (Read 158462 times)

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #280 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:41:49 pm »

Quote from: Level42 on January 25, 2008, 03:44:47 pm

OUCH!!! Damn that hurts just to look at it. I'd love to meet the moron who actually did that.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

ChadTower · « **Reply #281 on:** January 25, 2008, 09:57:49 pm »

Having been in this restoration hobby for a few years now...

...maybe that guy wasn't so evil. If the monitor really was dead... the alternative to what he did was to take a sledge hammer to it.

Level42 · « **Reply #282 on:** January 26, 2008, 05:31:20 am »

Bwah...

Fixing the Amplifone is the easiest monitor repair I've done so far.

Level42 · « **Reply #283 on:** January 26, 2008, 10:07:14 am »

Level 42 has two 100% working SW PCB sets

I knew it

The force was strong with this PCB set

Fozzy The Bear · « **Reply #284 on:** January 27, 2008, 09:03:26 am »

Quote from: Level42 on January 26, 2008, 10:07:14 am

Level 42 has two 100% working SW PCB sets

Well done!!!

I'm having trouble tracking down even one set.... LOL

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Level42 · « **Reply #285 on:** January 27, 2008, 11:34:27 am »

Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 27, 2008, 09:03:26 am

Quote from: Level42 on January 26, 2008, 10:07:14 am
Level 42 has two 100% working SW PCB sets

Well done!!! I'm having trouble tracking down even one set.... LOL

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

Thanks, I was extremely lucky and I owe a beer or two to Darthnuno who kindly pointed me to the e-bay auction.

Darth Nuno · « **Reply #286 on:** January 27, 2008, 11:57:57 am »

Quote from: Level42 on January 27, 2008, 11:34:27 am

Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 27, 2008, 09:03:26 am
Quote from: Level42 on January 26, 2008, 10:07:14 am
Level 42 has two 100% working SW PCB sets

Well done!!! I'm having trouble tracking down even one set.... LOL

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Thanks, I was extremely lucky and I owe a beer or two to Darthnuno who kindly pointed me to the e-bay auction.

Woow.... Really happy to see the boards are working

... ok, my favorite beer is 'KRIEK'

Level42 · « **Reply #287 on:** January 27, 2008, 01:16:51 pm »

Quote from: Darth Nuno on January 27, 2008, 11:57:57 am

Quote from: Level42 on January 27, 2008, 11:34:27 am
Quote from: Fozzy The Bear on January 27, 2008, 09:03:26 am
Quote from: Level42 on January 26, 2008, 10:07:14 am
Level 42 has two 100% working SW PCB sets

Well done!!! I'm having trouble tracking down even one set.... LOL

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)
Thanks, I was extremely lucky and I owe a beer or two to Darthnuno who kindly pointed me to the e-bay auction.

Woow.... Really happy to see the boards are working ... ok, my favorite beer is 'KRIEK'

Bruno, if you can find a color vector monitor we could restore that cockpit of yours to it's old glory.....

ChadTower · « **Reply #288 on:** January 28, 2008, 08:48:40 am »

5 minutes from me.

Level42 · « **Reply #289 on:** January 28, 2008, 02:22:44 pm »

Mmmmmm, would that be the Amplifone CRT ? Somehow, I have my doubts. I don't remember my CRT having such a wide black border around it.....

And the HV and deflection boards are gone.....

Otherwise.....no bids ? 100 bucks is not bad for that cab, even with the raunchy ESB marquee...

ChadTower · « **Reply #290 on:** January 28, 2008, 02:25:36 pm »

It says no longer for sale... odd.

I wonder if someone bought it off Ebay like I was trying to do.

Level42 · « **Reply #291 on:** January 29, 2008, 01:00:31 am »

There's a deflection PCB and a HV PCB (Without the HVT) on e-bay now as well....

Level42 · « **Reply #292 on:** March 23, 2008, 05:37:46 am »

My favorite recent video:

http://www.atarigames.com/page4/files/page4-1007-pop.html

patrickl · « **Reply #293 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:06:59 am »

Jammer dat het quicktime is. Dat virus installeer ik echt niet.

Level42 · « **Reply #294 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:35:17 am »

Nou ja zeg !

Blij dat ik een Mac gebruiker ben

patrickl · « **Reply #295 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:40:53 am »

Quote from: Level42 on March 23, 2008, 07:35:17 am

Nou ja zeg !

Blij dat ik een Mac gebruiker ben

Ja, ik neem aan dat Quicktime op een Mac wel beter werkt. QuickTime voor de PC is echt een soort virus.

Level42 · « **Reply #296 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:47:52 am »

Onzin. Kijk even de definitie van een virus na.....verspreid zichzelf, zonder dat de gebruiker het weet, sloopt bepaalde dingen. Dat alles doet Quicktime niet.
Je moet gewoon even opletten wat je aanklikt bij het installeren (bijv. dat je het niet wilt gebruiken om foto's te bekijken).

patrickl · « **Reply #297 on:** March 23, 2008, 07:58:46 am »

Quote from: Level42 on March 23, 2008, 07:47:52 am

Onzin. Kijk even de definitie van een virus na.....verspreid zichzelf, zonder dat de gebruiker het weet, sloopt bepaalde dingen. Dat alles doet Quicktime niet.
Je moet gewoon even opletten wat je aanklikt bij het installeren (bijv. dat je het niet wilt gebruiken om foto's te bekijken).

Trojan dan. Het doet wel dingen zonder toestemming die het niet zou moeten doen en het is bovendien een knudde programma. Serieus zoek maar op "quicktime sucks" of iets dergelijks. Het is net zo erg als die Realtime rotzooi. Dat installeer ik ook niet.

Level42 · « **Reply #298 on:** March 23, 2008, 08:06:07 am »

Nee, Windows Media Player is een feestje

Marruhhhh, we raken off-topic

WunderCade · « **Reply #299 on:** March 23, 2008, 11:22:14 pm »

Hmmm...this thread suddenly feels like a stroll through my local Wal-Mart where I don't understand a ---smurfing--- word spoken.

Singapura · « **Reply #300 on:** March 24, 2008, 02:21:48 am »

Not a lot of Dutch working at Walmart I think..... Jongens, Nederlands wordt hier niet echt gewaardeerd door onze Amerikaanse vrienden. Let's get back to English.

Level42 · « **Reply #301 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:04:20 am »

Quote from: WunderCade on March 23, 2008, 11:22:14 pm

Hmmm...this thread suddenly feels like a stroll through my local Wal-Mart where I don't understand a ---smurfing--- word spoken.

Never mind, it was completely off-topic. Something about Quicktime on the Windows platform being a virus or not. I'd prefer to discuss this (or rather not

) somewhere else. And I'm a Mac user so Quicktime is fine with me

Level42 · « **Reply #302 on:** April 12, 2008, 08:01:11 pm »

Well, there was some discussion about running a vector game on an oscilloscope.

Here it is:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zI8tmQ-T8[/youtube]

arcadefever · « **Reply #303 on:** April 13, 2008, 12:36:30 am »

Look like my Vectrex

with more green !!!

Nice vid

Level42 · « **Reply #304 on:** April 13, 2008, 04:13:05 pm »

Quote from: arcadefever on April 13, 2008, 12:36:30 am

Look like my Vectrex with more green !!!

Nice vid

Thanks Fever

Here's another video I shot that day. I was testing a deflection and HV-pcb set from a friend that I had re-built. After some playing I discovered a problem, there was horizontal movement in the vertical lines.....
First thought it would be a difficult problem, but then I thought about that it could be the potmeter....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF5hvj2_OBA[/youtube]

Maybe helpful for some others with this issue.

NOTE: I KNOW that the BIP screen is badly alligned here. I only used this screen to demonstrate the vertical lines going crazy !

dgame · « **Reply #305 on:** April 22, 2008, 03:32:29 pm »

Quote from: Level42 on October 25, 2007, 03:14:39 pm

No comments on the poster ? Nobody interested ? Weird !

Since discovering the link to poster file in this thread I had the poster printed and framed. It currently hangs proudly on my office wall. I had another Star Wars poster to put up, but this one combines the best of what I like: the original trilogy and vintage video games.

Thanks for the link, and great job on the cockpit.

dgame · « **Reply #306 on:** April 23, 2008, 02:30:22 pm »

Here is a picture:

Level42 · « **Reply #307 on:** April 23, 2008, 05:21:19 pm »

Great !

I actually still have to frame it.... I looked for a large black carton backdrop everywhere (I have a silver frame) but couldn't find it in that big size.....until I had to work at a customer who's business is.......making backdrop cartons for picture frames

After working there the whole day, I asked a guy if I could buy a sheet of black carton, and he said "yeah, right" and picked one out of the production line and gave it to me. It's actually layered, so if I would cut it at an angle, you'd see that the inner side is white..... Not that I want that

But I am SO clumsy with these kind of things that I am afraid to ruin it.....I think I'll go back if I'm in the area, 'cause the guy showed me his "workshop" where he did framing etc. and was very proud showing off some artwork he created from all kinds of carton...so i guess he'd do me the favor of a simple frame job like that (simple for him that is

)

patrickl · « **Reply #308 on:** April 23, 2008, 05:30:54 pm »

I bought a big piece of black foam core posterboard at a hobby shop. With a black core.

Level42 · « **Reply #309 on:** May 29, 2008, 06:27:41 pm »

Yeaaahhhh, I found out what was causing the terrible convergence on the lower left corner !

I was experimenting with some of those strips with metal pieces on one end and sticky stuff on the other that are used to converge the corners of a CRT (thanks to a great guy here on the forum that sent them to me for free, you know who you are

). I got it improved quite a bit, but then I noticed a weird piece of tape on the tube right in that lower right (from the backside) area. Turned out it was "holding" two of those strips, but it failed to do it's job properly, the strips were loose from the tube where the metal parts were. This caused the terrible convergence !

I removed them and it instantly got a lot better ! It's not pefect yet, didn't have more time, but I'm sure I can get it 100% now with some more tweaking with these strips !

You can see the white strips going to the center of the CRT clearly here:

Stub · « **Reply #310 on:** May 30, 2008, 09:18:11 pm »

Wow tell me more about those strips?
I have the same issue.

What are they called? Where can I buy them, and where is a tutorial in how to adjust them?

You have me excited!

Level42 · « **Reply #311 on:** May 31, 2008, 03:34:35 am »

Found this on the WG site:

YOKE TABS Strips with a magnet at one end and an adhesive at the other end. They are applied to the picture tube around the yoke to improve the convergence near the edges of the tube when needed.

So I guess that's what they are called but I think I've seen other names. I thought Happ had them, but I can't find them on their site.

Check your PM's......

Level42 · « **Reply #312 on:** July 01, 2008, 10:49:13 am »

Just a small test, sorry guys....

[youtube]http://hostyou.tv/view_video.php?viewkey=c298ab50293adfecb7b1[/youtube]

Steve · « **Reply #313 on:** July 02, 2008, 08:05:38 am »

Any chance of the cabinet plans ?

Level42 · « **Reply #314 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:25:03 pm »

I thought the dimensions were all measured and published in another thread here ?

ChadTower · « **Reply #315 on:** July 03, 2008, 09:01:12 am »

I know I wasn't around for a while, but last I remember they were still like 75% done and hadn't been put out there yet.

Level42 · « **Reply #316 on:** July 13, 2008, 11:25:04 am »

Hey guys, remember this one being mentioned in this thread:

The great news is that someone on KLOV forum picked it up and is planning a full restore !

Check out all the details here:
http://forums.webmagic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=2&Number=821121&an=0&page=0#Post821121

m_mcgover · « **Reply #317 on:** July 28, 2008, 02:04:14 pm »

Hey...that's me!

At any rate, I should probably start a new thread....

But here is first part (of probably many parts!) of the restoration:

http://forums.webmagic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=828169&page=0#Post828169

A good start. The next major hurdle is removing the 1000 Mile Rally stickers and black paint over the sideart....

Level42 · « **Reply #318 on:** July 28, 2008, 03:29:12 pm »

Yes I'd really like a cab about that restore, that's going to be one great restoration to follow !

for your rescue mission !

rovingmind · « **Reply #319 on:** July 29, 2008, 02:55:19 am »

it was discovered (in the thread about star wars cab plans) that what had been measured was actually off by a bit. Since actual panels had become available to one individual the measured dimensioning was put on hold.

Both people involved in the project of building and completely dimensioning a star wars cockpit, came down with a case of wiggleitis (ie... small children entering the household) and all the things that entails. New furniture, new house, new bills, Alot less time for projects.


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