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leapinlew:


--- Quote from: DP Louie on September 14, 2008, 11:56:58 am ---Sorry for the delay - better late than never right?  ;D  Anyhow, here's a few pics of what I got - the Defender is pretty rough, but complete, except for a piece of the coin door.  I plugged it in and the monitor turns on, but nothing else happens.  The leds on the pcb light up.  I am going to restore this cab, but first I'm going to work on the Mario Bros cab.  It is a converted DK jr (I thought it was a baby blue cab, but it is orange - I had looked at another MB earlier that was blue, must have got them confused!).  It's pretty rough as well.  It looked to be complete, but after I got them home and examined them closely, I discovered that there were no pcb's in the "cage"!  Oh well, my fault.  The monitor has really bad screen burn as well.  I've decided to convert this cab to a mamed Donkey Kong ala Buckethead's thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=79183.0

I'll post my progress in the Project Announcements area.  I also bought the Eight Ball Deluxe pinball machine.   Well, actually my brother bought it, but it's in my garage at the moment - it's really clean, although it's not working.  I think that the mpu is bad due to corrosion.  We paid $100 each for these, now that I have them I think they were overpriced based on there condition, but it's still really cool to have have a Defender cab, and most of my enjoyment comes from building/restoring anyway.  :applaud:

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$100 is pretty strong. Looks well worth it to me. I'll pay that for a good shell.

WunderCade:

Nice score DP!

I'm in the CA Valley as well - near Modesto. If you're close and plan on getting rid of that burned in MB monitor and go with a Mame instead. Let me know, my MB needs a monitor....perhaps I can buy it from ya and pick it up. Depending on how far away you are.

Congrats.

Mauzy:

THOSE are your version of rough? That Defender still has full sideart! Id say you got a great deal. They both look pretty solid too.

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: DP Louie on August 12, 2008, 09:21:49 pm ---Padstack - sorry, not in Ohio.  Central CA (smog capital of the US)  ;)

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I have never heard of anyone refer to any portion of CA as simply "Central CA." The valley stretches too far South and North to be meaningful to anyone but farmers and politicians I guess.  ??? Of course, I hail from the Sierras, so what do I know?  :dunno

DP Louie:

Thanks guys, I feel better about the $ I spent now.  I'm pretty picky, so I guess my definition of "rough" is strict.  The cabs do look better in the photos though.  I'm actually in Visalia, CA, which is about 40 miles south of Fresno.  Lived here my whole life, and I've always referred to it as "central CA" I guess because most of the time when I tell someone that I'm from Visalia, they give me a puzzled look and say "where's that"? ;D  Actually, Visalia has grown alot in the last 5-10 years, so it may not be so unheard of now.  You're right Mauzy, the valley is huge.  Wundercade, I'll let you know about the monitor - a friend from work has first dibs on it, but if he passes, it's all yours.  It's cool to see some local (to me) people in this great hobby.  I know that Circo (from Emumovies) lives in Fresno (at least he did last year when I ordered a DVD set from him).

Definitely going to mame the Mario cab, I already have some ideas that I'll post in the Projects section.  The Defender I want to completely restore to original condition, but one thing at a time...    :cheers:

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