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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: lonewolf88 on March 21, 2012, 12:00:24 pm
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Hello everybody. A little topic on my Gorf restoration (from France)
Midway cabs are quite rare in France and Gorf is one of the rarest.
I picked up the cab last summer. The table was in a good esthetic state (even if the glass print was starting to flake badly) but had 2 major issues
1) no PCB
2) no Monitor (and the removal of the monitor was made barbarian style)
(http://files.gamoover.net/files/forum_pics/20110725222947-Lonewolf-P1010282.JPG)
Coin door is very rusty
(http://files.gamoover.net/files/forum_pics/20110725223051-Lonewolf-P1010283.JPG)
CPs are rusty too but CPO are mint
(http://files.gamoover.net/files/forum_pics/20110725223735-Lonewolf-P1010286.JPG)
The interior : No pcb, no monitor, no monitor transfo
(http://files.gamoover.net/files/forum_pics/20110725223250-Lonewolf-P1010285.JPG)
For the PCB, it didn't take me long to understand than finding a working one in France would be almost impossible and that getting it from the US would be VERY costly. Since the game was never one of my favorites, I decided to go for the 60in1 solution. The interest of the Gorf cab was the 4 way joystick (needed for pacman style games) and fire button (needed for galaga for example) : I could play most of the games of the card
For the monitor, no real choice either, i opted for the TV and Scart solution
(http://files.gamoover.net/files/forum_pics/20120228011450-Lonewolf-P1010712.JPG)
After long hours of work, soldering cables, connecting the card, bezel cutting, etc...I managed to get the video, joysticks and sound working
(http://files.gamoover.net/files/forum_pics/20120313000808-Lonewolf-P1010747.JPG)
The electric part is done, i'm starting the "beauty" part
first : the CP. They are heavily rusted but the CPO are great. I plan on removing the rust with paper sanding and painting with roller painter (hope it's the right word). I can't use spray paint because i'm in a really small flat.
I already bought the new underlay from phoenix arcade and plan on sanding/bondo the wood frame and paint black (again with roller). a touch of new Tmolding and i'll finish with the coin door
Gonna start a thread in WTB/WTS for parts i'm missing
Thanks for reading and please accept my apologies for any errors in my english
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Midway cabs are quite rare in France and Gorf is one of the rarest.
Sad :banghead:
Please move this out of the restoration section.