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kayoteq:
Greetings, long time lurker, first time poster. I've been doing bits and pieces of this for awhile (waco joystick/buttons control for atari, sega, nintendo, xbox -same controller, re-wired with nine-pin to make it work with several platforms, but that's not important right now)

What I've gotten hold of: Centipede cabinet, with crt and coin box, no artwork, no controls, no cpu.
 Just crt (bonus at 12000 ©1980 atari still clearly visible on the crt) and the base power supply, with every wire cut off at the nubs. I did say barebones. Serial 38795.  I just couldn't resist getting hold of a Centipede cabinet, even stripped, rather than Generic Monkey Kong universal cabinet..

Help? Well, I'm going at this with the assistance of another technically competent person, so we are well aware of the zapping dangers of crt capacitance and such, so we're going to be careful..

 Just thought I'd start the dialogue here so maybe I can save a few frustrations here and there by noting what things you folks have already done.. :)

Oh and budget: Very very low. I can cobble together this thing from things at hand, maybe indulging in the proper atari buttons so they blink and stuff. Believe me, if you saw the piles of stuff I have from other things, you could see how I can say this. Even an old home fullsize Atari trackball if I want to use it..though I'd prefer to put in a proper one there for durability.


Nice to meet 'yall. Hope I don't confuse ya too much..
:)

(edited to remove the mangling of the cabinet plans and the 90 degree rotating crt idea- it's restore, now. back to oem look. the 90 degree can go in a generic cabinet when I get that.)

Now with pictures!


Too much idle time and not enough black paint? The non-original woodgrain cp overlay.


where'd the guts go? Oh yeah, ebay. But I'll ask directly. "Yeah, I'd like to buy the stuff you removed from this.." Oh well. CRT is shot, so I'd want to start over on that part.. but the art would be nice.

Bonus snicker bar wrapper at no extra charge!

more of the 'too much black paint' syndrome..

the decals are under there.. but I might as well sand it down and start over with a smooth surface.
Depends on how the paint removal scheme works.. probably remove the decal too :(

That's how it stands.. more research to go. Glad to finally have one to play with.

bfauska:
I am sure you'll get some resistance here for modding a Centipede, but if nobody around you wants to restore it then there's not much you can do.  As far as the rotating monitor, it is a fairly hot topic here every once in a while.  Jimbo is currently doing a scratch built cab with one, it is a rather straight forward design for the rotation and I would suggest you check it out.  Here it is

Cornchip did one that was a top of the line motorized system, using custom fabricated parts, do a search for his thread, you might try searching for "rotate" posts by user "cornchip"

Good luck with the project, welcome to the forum, and don't forget to share your progress and errors, we all love to learn from each other's successes and failures.

 :cheers:

kayoteq:
Oh, Atari freaks,  don't worry. I've redacted the 90-degree monitor mod from my earlier post..

 Sorry if bfauska's reply looks confusing. Let's just pretend I didn't mention the mangling, mkay?
That was pretty much pre-unpacking and inspection..

I can get hold of a generic cabinet later for my true mame-multi project. This seems like too good
an opportunity to have a 'real'  Atari game sitting in the room, which is the idea.

This is how it all starts, eh? he he he..

You can thank your fellow posters for elaborate stories and projects that make me go, 'okay, tricky, but plausible...'


Still debating mame versus Genuine Centipede CPU (tm). I'd really like to be able to play other games
on it.. maybe just the vertical monitor trackball-compatible one button games.. :)

Just didn't want to pass up another thing like oh, the time I was putting stuff in mini-storage, this
arcade tech had a Star Wars Upright, bad monitor.. $250 and I didn't get it. (on many levels)

bluevolume:
Theres some paint/varnish remover at Home Depot that works pretty well for taking paint off and not runing the vinyl below.  It is orange (smells like oranges too), with a green label.  That's all I remember, but should be enough info once you get to the store.

WaRpEd:
Citristrip is found at Home Depot.
It's a citrus based solvent that shouldn't damage the vinyl and is milder than a petroleum based paint stripper.
Hope it helps.
And post some more progress pics.

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