Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
TheShanMan's Defender restoration - New repro wiring harnesses!!!
TheShanMan:
I finally have what will be a dedicated arcade game: Defender! Picked it up for $100, not working. It'll need some cosmetic attention, though it's not bad - artwork is relatively good for 28 yrs old, but the lower front panel, which is pressed wood, has water damage (thankfully the panels that have artwork are plywood!). I imagine that's easy enough to replace.
The big challenge for me is going to be getting it up and running, though thankfully we have some Williams experts like RetroACTIVE here (I'm counting on you guys! :)). I haven't fired it up yet, but he said the screen comes on red, and no sound. I see one of the monitor boards is popped off - not sure if that happened during transport or if that may have been part of the problem. Also I see a part of the monitor is broken off of it's mounting point, but not sure if that's a significant issue.
I probably won't want to spend a lot of time working on this in the short term (I have enough stuff to do right now), but I would like to cover the basics and see if I can get it going without a lot of effort.
The guy actually thought the corroded high score batteries might be the problem!
Pictures to follow very soon.
TheShanMan:
Here are the pics.
TheShanMan:
And some more...
SirPeale:
One of the monitor daughtercards isn't plugged in. In one of those pictures it's to the left of the monitor. Without it won't work.
Level42:
All your board-set problems are (soon) solved:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=83897.0
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version