Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Centipede Restoration
Spyridon:
--- Quote from: Wade on August 18, 2009, 11:01:29 pm ---Does it look more like dark blue, or more like regular blue? Just take a good look at it next time you are looking at it and let me know what you think. No rush at all. The picture Quarterarcade has also looks darker.
Thanks,
Wade
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It really depends on the angle you look at it.
Here is a comparison between the original and the QA repro:
A real good match, but change the angle and you get a different (darker) color:
sevenleaf:
--- Quote from: Spyridon on August 19, 2009, 09:35:25 am ---
--- Quote from: sevenleaf on August 19, 2009, 08:25:54 am ---Looking smart dude! How did you clean between the brass coil things on the back of the neck?
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Just spray with the degreaser and then hose down. It comes clean easily
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Excuse my ignorance but you hose it down with water?
Spyridon:
--- Quote from: sevenleaf on August 20, 2009, 06:54:25 am ---
Excuse my ignorance but you hose it down with water?
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Yes, you just need to make sure that it is discharged first and completely dry before adding power back to it.
Wade:
--- Quote from: Spyridon on August 20, 2009, 08:27:48 am ---
--- Quote from: sevenleaf on August 20, 2009, 06:54:25 am ---
Excuse my ignorance but you hose it down with water?
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Yes, you just need to make sure that it is discharged first and completely dry before adding power back to it.
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Yeah, it's the only way to really clean a monitor. I do it to any game I restore or any monitor I remove from a game.
Thanks for the info on the overlay. I'm sure it's close enough. In some pictures it just looks really dark, as does the blue on the Bezel. I'm not sure if some Centipedes have a darker bezel or if it's just the photo.
I'm thinking about going with blue or green molding on mine. Or maybe even purple! Mine has the sideart with the pink/purple outline and details in the shrooms.
Wade
Level42:
As the owner of an Irish Centi (and having seen both other Irish and US Centi's) I'm telling you there is a difference. There were also differences in the marquee and side-art, why would something "simple" as a blue color shade not be different ?
In fact, the "brighter" blue on the Irish CPO matches the blue on the Irish bezel. Like the US CPO blue matches the US bezel.
Personally I would never hose down a monitor. WAY too risky ! You never know where that water stays....
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