Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Centipede Mini Restoration
SirPeale:
Actually worked on this quite a bit today. Pulled the harness out and monitor, sanded the heck out of the bottom of the cab, vacuumed and wiped down everything. Started wire wheeling off the bezel retainer rust to repaint.
Then I pulled the board to clean the heck out of the ROM legs. Thought (hoped) that this problem might be solved by dirty legs. It's been reporting ROMs 2 and 4 as bad.
When I pulled 2 I found that one of the legs was gone entirely! I was really excited. I soldered on a cap leg I cut off from when I did cap kit. Little change - now the P1 and P2 start buttons light up, but nothing else seems to be different. I have to bite the bullet and get new ROMs. Sucks they're so expensive.
SirPeale:
I've been scrubbing the heck out of the coin door to get the old coating and the rust off. I wish there was a sand blaster in this area, this is a big pain.
ChadTower:
Any chance of getting just a sandblaster? I think Sears carries them cheap, no cabinet, just put the door against a rock and blast it.
SirPeale:
Also no compressor to drive the sandblaster. And the fact that I live in the downtown area, I don't really have a place to do that outside of a cabinet.
I'd be fine taking it somewhere...IF there was somewhere to take it.
ChadTower:
There has to be an easier solution to this. Chemical stripping?
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