Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Peale's Donkey Kong Restoration/Conversion
SirPeale:
What about the coin door?
cornishHen:
I used some slot head bolts on my coin door as I didn't want to buy two sets of $10 bolts.. I still have 2 bolts left from the set I received from Mike's.. I'll try them on my coin door when I get home tonight and report back with pics..
SirPeale:
Luckily my coin door bolts are okay, they just need polishing/sealing. The CP ones didn't fare so well. I can't budge the nuts. They'll have to be replaced.
I found them locally, but I have to order them in lots of 100. I'll probably polish/seal them and sell them off.
SirPeale:
I thought I'd posted about a problem I had with this, but I guess I didn't.
Last fall I completely disassembled quite a bit of the cab - at least all the parts came out. When I reassembled it it no longer worked. :( You'd power it up, but all you would get it 1/10 of a second of the startup sound, and nothing more.
Fast forward to today, thought I'd give everything a look over.
100% user error. I plugged the video board power cable into the wrong connector. I was trying to beat the darkness that day and it got the best of me.
Luckily it seems there is no damage. Still have only 1/10 of a second of startup sound, but the game plays 100%. *shrug*
SirPeale:
Ugh...I can't believe I just did what I did...
I have a coin door I salvaged from the dumpster @ my old job. It was in FAR better condition than the door on the DK. So I thought "why don't I just swap the guts and wiring..."
So I did. I got everything in place, and then I went to close the door. It was a bit stiff, so I gave it some additional strength...
...and then I saw why it was so stiff. Stupid coin mechs...I'd put them in their place with the door completely open, which meant that the door frame was between the door and the mech. So when I assembled it without looking (it was face down) it caught it in place. I ended up bending the hell out of the frame. >:(
So it looks like I'll be refinishing the original coin door anyway. Just what I needed, something else to do.
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