Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
TheShanMan's Defender restoration - New repro wiring harnesses!!!
SirPeale:
The adapter is on its way. Make sure you get the empty key pin in the correct position. It may fit a bit snugly.
If you have any other questions, let me know.
TheShanMan:
Thankfully USPS got your adapter here in a hurry Peale! In time for me to try out the ram over the weekend. Thanks Peale!
Also, yesterday I got a marquee from quarterarcade.com. Mine looks great when not backlit, but it definitely won't look good backlit, hence buying one from QA. They rated it 4 out of 5 stars, and it definitely is a 4 - very nice! Expensive (I think it was $38 shipped), but what are you gonna do?
So I might sell my old marquee to someone who wants to frame it or something. It had a fair amount of cracking in the red areas particularly, which was made worse when I stupidly tried to gently clean the back side! I "repaired" it by filling in all areas with paint. Now it looks great, but since the thickness of my paint doesn't equal the thickness of the silkscreen paint, my paint globs stand out like a sore thumb when backlit! So anyway, I might get around to posting it in BST. But feel free to contact me if you're interested in it - I'll let it go for cheap since it can't be backlit.
Level42:
I received my RAMs yesterday. That was a great deal. I even got some spares I think (weren't they sold by the 25 ?). I bought 3 sets.
Great guy to deal with, even paid back 5 bucks because shipping it here was less expensive than he'd thought..... I appreciate honest people like that, thankfully the vast majority of people in this hobby are like that. Will takes some time until I can install them on my friend's Defender and Sinistar. I guess I'll just do the board mod. It's so simple.
TheShanMan:
I didn't get a chance over the weekend to install my 4164 ram chips and peale's power adapter due to my wife's 40th b-day, but I did tonight, and as I figured it made no difference with startup. So I'm officially out of things I think I'm capable of doing to diagnose based on the suggestions I've received thus far.
And that means... Retro, are you still willing to have a crack at my boards? If so, could you please PM me your address and any specific details you want to make sure I handle? I figure I'll send you my cpu/video board and rom board, and maybe include my old 4116's if you want??? I could include my sound and input boards, but I would think the odds of one of those boards causing my problems is extremely low (the sound board's diagnostic mode does work).
I've done everything I can think of to minimize the work you might have to deal with (so you don't say "why the heck couldn't he have done this before sending it to me?!"). Hopefully you can figure it out with minimal effort!
SirPeale:
All the LEDs on the ROM board still remain lit?
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