Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Peale's Donkey Kong Restoration/Conversion
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on June 30, 2008, 02:53:48 pm ---
That's the immediate plan. I mean are you going to keep or sell it?
--- End quote ---
Gotcha. I'm on the fence right now. I'd need a place to keep it. My Centipede mini is going in my daughter's room (though it'll be a surprise to my wife) and my boys already have two cabs in their room. Though I suppose I could move out the Dynamo Mame cab...but then I'd likely move the Defender in it's place.
*sigh* decisions, decisions!
SirPeale:
Went to the storage area last night to pay the rent and pull a couple parts. Brought my oldest son with me.
After paying rent, popped the DK cab out to pull the monitor, board and harness. Unfortunately I didn't bring my socket set or wrenches, so my little needle nosed pliers didn't do much to get the nuts off the bottom. As for the board/harness, it's pretty firmly stuck in the cab unless I wanted to do some cutting or a lot of dismantling.
Sucks...this place is only four miles away, but with gas the way it is I have to make sure my trips are planned well. Eight mile round trip = nearly half a gallon of gas in our van. Sometimes I miss my Kia.
I handed the flashlight to my son so I could see to remove the control panel. He was more interested in using it to look anywhere but where I wanted him to point it, so when I was disconnecting the CP I bent one of the pins, and when I bent it back into shape...yeah, you guessed it...it broke off. Crap.
I didn't worry much about it at the moment...I know it's an oddball harness but one way or another I didn't think it was that big a deal...at that moment.
I suddenly noticed a power outlet in the hallway on the ceiling. I wonder if it works...wheel the cab over and plug it in...yes!
Nothing on screen...weird...thought I remember it coming up scrambled. Coin it up...sure, it seems to be playing blind. Brightness is all the way up. Turn up the controls on the neckboard...ah, there's my "picture". Something screwed up with the horizontal sync. No big deal.
Go to start a game...nothing is happening. Weird. Oh, maybe it's because the pin that broke off was the CP ground? Crap!
I take a strand of wire and bridge the connection inside the harness - a temporary measure. Then I turn it on.
I have...picture! It's badly adjusted, but it's a picture. Good. I know this EZ needs a cap job, but at least I know it works "properly".
The joystick is broken. I know, I know...Nintendo joysticks never break. The actuator seems to have worn down completely, it no longer makes contact with the switches. I'll have to figure something out. But I was able to make Jumpman walk and climb up a ladder before getting mashed by a barrel by pressing the switches with my fingertips.
ChadTower:
Sweet. I'm right with you on the kids not holding the flashlight where you want it. Get a hanging light, I guess. I have a couple cheap LED arrays with strings you can hook around just about anything, run on a couple AAAs and light up a small area like the second coming.
2600:
I picked up one of those LED lights that you strap around your head at Target for like $20. I think it was made by Energizer and has a couple different modes plus it tilts so you can aim it. At first I got it for when I was doing some work laying a floor in the attic, now I use it all the time.
SirPeale:
--- Quote from: 2600 on July 03, 2008, 01:58:54 pm ---I picked up one of those LED lights that you strap around your head at Target for like $20. I think it was made by Energizer and has a couple different modes plus it tilts so you can aim it. At first I got it for when I was doing some work laying a floor in the attic, now I use it all the time.
--- End quote ---
I have one of those. Should have brought it.
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 03, 2008, 08:59:54 am ---Sweet. I'm right with you on the kids not holding the flashlight where you want it. Get a hanging light, I guess. I have a couple cheap LED arrays with strings you can hook around just about anything, run on a couple AAAs and light up a small area like the second coming.
--- End quote ---
I wanted him to feel useful. I brought him along to have some father-son time and get him out of the house.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version