Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
CHICKEN RESTORE LIKE A ROBOT (Berzerk) *IT LIVES*
ChadTower:
Woo! Moving some stuff around the basement last night I found the joystick grommets I had lost. Now I can rebuild the stick.
I had been saving it for a surprise but may as well mention it now. I ordered an original Berzerk stick from a forum member and have been really looking forward to putting that in. Still waiting on the package to arrive, though, and it was shipped at the end of March. To be fair it's coming from Australia.
ChadTower:
That stick still hasn't shown up. I have pretty much given up on it. As such I pulled the stick I have apart last night to replace the grommet. Got it back together, it's not right, so I take it apart and compare the replacement grommet to the original. Shaft diameter is different so I guess this is for a different stick. :banghead:
I did compare the stiffness of the rubber on the old grommet vs the new grommet and it is pretty much the same. So it appears that the issue is not that this grommet is worn out - I just don't like the throw on this joystick. It's really long and sometimes the thing doesn't hit the diagonals as well as I'd like.
ChadTower:
Okay, been playing with Bob Roberts' width kit for quite a while now. C38 originally had a .39uf cap in it... so I tried moving up to .47uf and the pic either didn't change or got a little worse. So I moved down to a .334uf and it almost looked like it got even wider, which makes no sense, for it to get worse with both a higher and lower cap. Just tried going to .808uf (.334 and .474 in parallel) and the width didn't seem to change but the pic got really dark.
:banghead:
Anyone have a good 4600 or electrohome for sale?
EDIT: last try, put in a .104uf... I think it fried something. This kit did more harm than good.
ChadTower:
Put the original "width cap" back in... replaced chassis... promptly smoked the ceramic resistor on the side of the chassis.
Bob Roberts' width cap kit = epic fail.
ChadTower:
More positive progress: new CP!
Shelves too close to get a good shot of the front right now.
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