Restoration section

[Level42]

I'd like to see a section for Restoration of (classic) arcade games.

Now they seem to get scattered about Main, Arcade Misc, and Projects announcements.

They belong in neither IMHO. Projects announcements is meant for building new Mame cabs IMHO.

What do you guys think ?

[bfauska]

I like that idea.  I think that it could apply to restoration/repair of parts that are not monitors.  Coin door restoration for example has several threads right now, joystick repair has come up in the past, coin mechs, leaf adjustment, troubleshooting and repairing game main boards, polishing bezel and marquee glass, t-mold slot repair.  Some of these things very slightly overlap the other forums but I think that they have more in common with each other than any other section of the forum.

Good idea, hope I haven't tried to steer it in a different direction than you were aiming to, although rereading your post I think I may have.  I kind of disagree with your last statement actually, a restoration project as a whole is quite similar to a built from scratch cabinet, it's the individual pieces of the project that differ so greatly.

In summary... Great idea for a new area of the forum (at least the name)...It should be about something different than you said (sorry)...I think that restoration projects fit nicely with ground-up projects.

[shardian]

i think this would be better served with a WIKI page which contains links to good threads.

[CheffoJeffo]

i think this would be better served with a WIKI page which contains links to good threads.

Do I sense a volunteer ?

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Restoration

[shardian]

i think this would be better served with a WIKI page which contains links to good threads.

Do I sense a volunteer ?

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Restoration

That is why I don't care for the WIKI to much myself. I couldn't find that page by just browsing, but I happened to know it was there. I tried to add it to the index page, but I'm not a savvy wiki editor.

[CheffoJeffo]

That is why I don't care for the WIKI to much myself. I couldn't find that page by just browsing, but I happened to know it was there. I tried to add it to the index page, but I'm not a savvy wiki editor.

I never noticed it wasn't in the index ... fixed.

Thanks.

[Level42]

FYI, Clay Cowgill has been out of the business of selling the multi-kits for specific games (like the  Star Wars Multi game kit) as he says himself on the homepage of his site:
http://www.multigame.com/

Mark Spaeth sells SW/ESB kits that he claims don't suffer from the problems that Clay's have:
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mspaeth/pics/projects/SWESB/swesb.html

[CheffoJeffo]

FYI, Clay Cowgill has been out of the business of selling the multi-kits for specific games (like the  Star Wars Multi game kit) as he says himself on the homepage of his site:
http://www.multigame.com/

Yeah, but I kept the links as the kits are out there if you can find them. Similarly, Scott Brasington stopped making kits quite a while ago.

I debated not including them, but each of their sites explains the situation well and it is much like many specialty parts ... you have to hunt for them.

Mark Spaeth sells SW/ESB kits that he claims don't suffer from the problems that Clay's have:
http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~mspaeth/pics/projects/SWESB/swesb.html

Thanks ... was one my list to find the link, but I hadn't gotten around to it. Added.

[mcfreak]

I like the idea of having a Restoration section and goes down the same lines as mine.  Maybe underneath that forum is a sub forum for PCB repair jobs/questions.

I like having it on the forum instead of the wiki due to the comments/suggestions and general conversations about the work.  That stuff is what drives me to complete projects.

[CheffoJeffo]

Not entirely sure why we needed a new topic on this very same question, but here is the reply I posted in the mcfreak's thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=70238.0

While I like the idea of a dedicated board for "dark side" projects  , I am not convinced that we would see a lot of traffic on that subboard and worry that it would get lost / not visited.

My personal feeling is that the best course of action is for people to post repair questions in Arcade Miscellaneous (and for folks who post elsewhere, have the mods move it to AM). As it stands, the folks with the expertise already frequent that board, so we wouldn't lose anything.

Particularly relevant threads (e.g. who had the big Asteroids repair thread a while back -- I learned a bunch from that) could be added as links (or, better yet, as articles) in the restoration page in the wiki and we would have a decent record in a central location (which,at the end of the day is the point, isn't it?).

My $.02.