Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Pole Position Restoration
whammoed:
Update: Gas Pedal restoration done. 1st 2 pics are before and the othere two are after...as if it isn't obvious
New springs, new potentiometer, new non slip tread, and fresh paint
Lots of elbow grease.
whammoed:
This is before I cleaned the critters out of it. Had some sort of infestation. :D
whammoed:
Here is the complete power supply conversion over to the switcher before and after. It was half converted and hacked when I got it. The old power supply was still being used for the coin door lights and isolation transformer and the +5 volts was hacked into the ARII boards instead of directly to the game boards. I converted the coin door lights over to 12v and the coin counter works fine on 12v. (The coin counter originally used the 10.whatever volts and was already using the 12v from the switcher when I got it.) I would have enjoyed rebuilding the old power supply and keeping it totally original, however I decided this particulare Pole Position was passed that point. (Notice the two big blues and the brackets are missing also) Also, I hear the power supply setup was a common failure point in the game. The only real thing the ARIIs were being used for was sound amplification. A little more on that later.
whammoed:
Here are the amplifiers I purchased to replace the ARII boards. I made a couple brackets and mounted them where the old volume pots were located. They are Qkits, and are overkill by far. You barely have to turn the volume to get the sound where it needs to be. The volume leve is definitely easier to control now though. With the original pots and ARIIs it was either loud or nothing. A cheaper way to go is by hacking a set of cheap PC speakers similar to what is done by many, myself included, for PC based machines, however I did like keeping the volume controls separate for each channel and these kits came with volume controls.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: whammoed on October 04, 2007, 10:10:41 pm ---This is before I cleaned the critters out of it. Had some sort of infestation. :D
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I've got the same infestation. Any idea on how to get rid of 'em?
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