Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Centipede Restoration
SirPeale:
Those black connectors are interesting...I don't have them on my Centipede Mini.
Spyridon:
--- Quote from: Level42 on December 16, 2008, 05:03:50 pm ---I'm having a deja-vu feeling ;) :duckhunt
--- End quote ---
Yeah, I keep reading through your restoration. Hopefully, I won't have to go through what you went through to get the PCB working.
Spyridon:
Found this online today and ordered it:
NOS backdoor sheet
Manuals and flyer
It was $15 plus shipping.
(of course, currently I don't have a back door to put this on)
Spyridon:
I spent some time trying to stip off the black paint to see if the artwork underneath was salvagable. I wasn't too concerned if this was successful as I already have replacement art. However, if it was in good shape, I could resell the artwork. I tried about 8 different strippers and had no luck. I can't be sure what kind of paint was used, but based on the success of the chemical strippers, I think it might be an oil based paint. Goof Off worked quickly, but didn't remove the black paint, but did pull up the vinyl underneath. Citristrip did nothing. I had some success with a soy based stripper but not much. Here is what it looks like so far (pretty ugly)
Anyone know what can remove oil based paints without hurting the vinyl underneath?
Spyridon:
I tried a few more strippers on the paint, but I can't find anything that will remove the oil based paint and save the artwork underneath. Not a big deal as I have new sideart ready to go.
Decided to start the task of getting this game working. Remember, all cosmetic work will be done later when the weather gets better. The goal for now is to just get it playable.
Started by working on setting up the new (to me) control panel. First I installed the rebuilt trackball.
The control panel only came with two carriage bolts, so I'll need to come up with two more to fully secure this.
Next was to install the Atari cone buttons. I picked up some used cone lights and some NOS cones.
The wire harness that I picked up had a set of cone lights with it so I just compared my wires to that one which made figuring out what goes where relatively easy.
P1 and P2 wired up:
Now to install them into the control panel.
Okay, first problem of the day. The cones I have are too big. Comparing them to the ones that came with the wire harness I purchased you can see the difference
That's a shame as these are in perfect shape. For now, I'll use the other set I have
Looks pretty good, but one of the cones is banged up pretty good.
Anyone want to trade a set of tall cones for short ones?
And the fininshed (for now) control panel
It may be ugly, but at least it's Centipede and no longer this:
Looking forward to putting the new CPO on this, but it's too cold to do any painting.
Next up...removing the hacked up wire harness and installing the Centipede harness.
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