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Getting past coin door locks

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Ken Layton:
Atari used cheapo "Hudson" locks on the back door. They were those cheap aluminum keys (single sided). Very easy to drill out and replace with something better.

Over/under doors are held in place by 5/16" hex head screws and clips. If you get the back door off the machine then you can reach through with a 5/16" nutdriver and take the screws/clips off and the whole door will come off the machine. Then you can get to both the locks to disassemble them.

Boy that DK table game looks pretty good. Here's a good hint to make your games show up better with your video camera: get yourself one of those 'clamp lights' at the hardware store. The type with the 12" diameter aluminum bowl reflector. Put a 100 watt light bulb in it. Now have someone hold the light by it's clamp handle and point it at what you're photographing. That light will make things show up much better.

RayB:

--- Quote from: Ken Layton on April 04, 2008, 12:32:50 pm ---That light will make things show up much better.
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... Except for images on the monitor. Light = bad when it comes to showing visuals on a monitor.

Hey Cyberball is a cool "sports" game. I love the "mirror" they built into the 2-player cabinet so you could give your opponent the evil eye.

CrazyKongFan:
Of course, each cab is different, but I had a similar situation when I got my gutted cab (which turned out to be a former Robotron cab). The back door was just screwed on, but the 2 front doors (coin door, and coin box door) were locked. I reached in from the back and just unscrewed the one on the coin door. The coin box door was a little tricker, as it had a box bolted over it from the inside. Once I removed the bolts and the box, then I could get to the lock. I may put new locks on them sometime, but for now, I just close them when I don't need to access anything inside.

Jdurg:

--- Quote from: newkillergenius on April 04, 2008, 11:21:19 am ---
--- Quote from: Jdurg on April 03, 2008, 10:24:44 pm ---Depending on how original you want to keep the cab original, I would just suggest drilling out the locks and replacing them with standard locks from Home Depot.  When I was restoring the cheap coin door I got off of E-Bay, it had one lock but no key.  So I just removed the locks and replaced them with new ones from Home Depot with matching keys.  Can't tell a difference between the new locks and the old ones.  (Aside from the old ones looking like ---Cleveland steamer---).

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Jdurg, I was in a Home Depot the other day, but I didnt see any locks like this...maybe I'm in the wrong aisle?

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In the HD by me they were in the aisle with the mailbox hardware.  They were hanging up on the wall in their packaging.

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