Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
GORF!!!!
dmel75:
--- Quote from: cmoses on June 06, 2009, 11:43:16 am ---Nice find, glad you are going to restore it. It looks very clean.
Can you answer a question I have. I am not familiar with this cabinet, but it looks to be pretty deep. Yet I notice it has plastic piece in the back that buldges out. I assume this is for the monitor, but it seems weird. That has to be a 19" monitor in there, why does it need the buldge?
I have seen other cabinets that look much smaller in depth and they have no problem with the monitors.
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I looked closely at the back panel tonight, the monitor mount protrudes just slightly enough to need the plastic basin on the back.
dmel75:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on June 07, 2009, 09:54:30 pm ---
You can buy brand new power supplies for arcade machines. I have no links right now but i'm sure someone will soon (",)
Don't be afraid of doing things like replacing capacitors. thats quite simple work. Hey, if Chadtower can do it, YOU can ;D
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Wow, that would be great. I just don't know enough about these machines to know which pieces are proprietary for the machine and which can be swapped. I poked around some more in the electronics and tried turning it off and on a few times. After reseating some cables, using a brush to knock off some dirt I got a different result. I powered it on and the screen turned a nice even red color, it sat there for a minute or two and LO AND BEHOLD, I SAW GORF!!! It was flickering and looked to have some vertical hold issues but I could CLEARLY make out the game. I heard no sound whatsoever but I could see the game. Then, about the time I got excited, it went back to the red screen and nothing I did from that point got any other result. I'm beginning to think the power system is ok, it's powering on the monitor fully and I was able to see some game output so that leads me back to looking at something like the PCB cage, the RGB unit or some connection somewhere. Anyone have any ideas about a red screen?
Thanks for reading!!!
WunderCade:
What city are you in? There may be a fellow BYOAC'er or KLOVer in your area that may come and assist you. It happens all the time.
dmel75:
--- Quote from: WunderCade on June 08, 2009, 12:29:51 am ---What city are you in? There may be a fellow BYOAC'er or KLOVer in your area that may come and assist you. It happens all the time.
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I'm in Jackson, Mississippi. Anyone out there?
IG-88:
I was just just kidding in my earlier post. If you are this close to getting it to run you HAVE to restore. If nothing else resell it to a local BYOAC'er, putting anything else in this would be a travesty.
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