Jail Break - Polishing the turd

[paigeoliver]

After the success of my "Time Soldiers - polishing the turd" project it is time to do another one.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=129416.0

Jail Break.

It came with a working boardset, working power supply and working isolation transformer. The cabinet wiring is hacked to crap, there is no monitor, the bezel belongs to 10 Yard Fight and it has seen extensive water damage on the bottom section.

Goal is to have it looking good and working good by October 29th (one month from today), while spending less than $50.

Stretch goal is to make the buttons light up and replace the grommet on that Wico stick on the same budget.

[paigeoliver]

Update number 1.

10 Yard Fight bezel replaced with smoked plexi. Smoked plexi came from stack of 30 game glasses and bezels I bought at an auction for $10.

Current total. 33 cents.

[paigeoliver]

Pulled a monitor from the pile of broken monitors. Picked one with light Joust burn since this is a Joust cabinet.

Neckboard was cracked in half. Fixed that. Verified function of game board, recapped the game board since I already had the iron hot anyway (my previously hastily soldered together Konami power and video adapter actually had the sync on the wrong pin and I had to fix that, thus the iron was already hot). I will recap the monitor tomorrow.

Monitor $10 (I buy broken/untested monitors in bulk when I can get them cheap).
Caps for cap kit and recapping mainboard. $1.40 (I cap monitors for other people so I buy in seriously large quantities for the bulk discounts).
Previous total. 33 cents.

Running total $11.73

[IG-88]

Cool Paige, love these "economical" restores. So you are bringing back it as a Jail Break or try to do a Joust?

[paigeoliver]

It will stay as Jail Break, I already have a Multiwilliams so I have little reason to do a Joust restore. Plus I don't think I could have pulled that off for $50 even if I had started 6 months ago when I had a converted Joust cabinet with monitor, Joust boardset and Joust control panel and only had about 20 bucks into it.

[IG-88]

Checked out the game in Mame. I like it.  Would be cool if this was set next to a Green Beret or Russin' Attack.

[paigeoliver]

Checked out the game in Mame. I like it.  Would be cool if this was set next to a Green Beret or Russin' Attack.

It is going to play Rush N Attack with a flip of a switch. I wasn't going to count that as part of the restore though.

[IG-88]

So, the plot thickens. Jamma switcher?

[paigeoliver]

So, the plot thickens. Jamma switcher?

I eventually want all my games to run multiple games, and to that end I have already started collecting boards, etc, but I don't really plan on starting the implementation of THAT until everything else in my gameroom is DONE.

Also, to that end, if someone could hack the Super Zaxxon roms to run on a Zaxxon boardset that would be great.

Today I repaired the water damaged cabinet bottom.

Previous total. $11.73
Shop supplies (a little bondo, a few shots of black spraypaint and a couple sander discs). $4
Current total $15.73

[paigeoliver]

And here is where we are as of this morning.

Cabinet painted, original t-molding cleaned and reapplied.

Metal parts all repainted. Coin inserts cleaned and polished.

Not pictured but I polished most of the imperfections out of the joystick knob. Joystick handle itself is frozen into the rubber grommet but the stick still works fine. Since I don't want to spend $10 of my limited budget on a new grommet I am not going to risk trying to unstick the shaft from the grommet.

Previous total. $15.73
Shop supplies $1 (couple shots of spraypaint, and the yellow paint came out of a $5 mistint gallon I already had, and I used maybe an inch worth out of the can).
Current total $16.73

[Slippyblade]

I have to say, I love the concept of these threads.  I'm learning a lot.  Had no idea one could accomplish so much with so little!

Thank you!
 

[paigeoliver]

And here is where we are now.

Still need to rewire the machine. Going to swap out that joystick handle for a longer one if I can find one, if not then I might swap the whole stick.

[SavannahLion]

Was the mistint from something you ordered or from the bargain bin at a place like Home Depot?

I used to browse the mistints at Home Depot but they've since stopped doing that. AFAIK I've never seen Lowes do it nor any of the "upper" scale paint shops. I'm not sure what Home Depot does with their mistints anymore.

[paigeoliver]

Mistint was from the bargain shelf in the paint section of either lowes or home depot. It seems that some of them have mistints all the time and others don't. Some Lowes definitely do it, since most of my mistint gallons have come from lowes.