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Defender - nightmare restore

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gameguy1957:
Won this thing off of eBay a while back. Paid < $100 for it and thought I got a deal. Especially since it was only 30 minutes from the house.

The first picture shows the bad side, the second is about as perfect as you can ask for in a machine that's around 25 years old.

gameguy1957:
So , I thought I was going to pick up a machine that needed to have some of the plywood re-glued. But look what we found when we went to lift it into the truck - Major termite damage.

gameguy1957:
So I stripped out the cab and discovered that the termites had the good sense not to eat through any of the artwork layer of plywood. So I decided to try and save the cab. I started by scoring the artwork layer with a razor blade and then used a flat, wide shovel to peel the artwork off the bad wood.

Then I cut the wood straight across, just below the remaining good wood.

gameguy1957:
Can't find the pics of the wood cuts or replacement, but here's what the side looks like after putting everything back together.

I'll get some stuff up on the progress of the electronics soon....

gameguy1957:
First pic is of the original board. The machine had been in storage for many years, and they left an original set of AA batteries in it. You can see the results.

Second pic is a clean, non-working board I got from eBay.

Third pic shows the finished board. I've added a lithium battery kit, replaced the capacitors that are right behind the connector for the power harness. One of the capacitors had been put in backwards and all three looked like they were in very bad shape.

I could get a startup sound and a few square blobs of color on the screen on startup. The colors were of the orange or red and yellow I remember from the original startup screen. It also gets the startup sound when power is applied.

I had ordered new ram, but they sent the wrong parts. So I'm stuck at this point for a while until parts come in, I've got a cap kit on the way for it too.

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