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Author Topic: Best way to get a chassis out of a woodie cab???  (Read 1282 times)

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Best way to get a chassis out of a woodie cab???
« on: January 02, 2008, 02:56:07 pm »
Buddy has a woodie with a bad chassis. He needs it removed. I've removed them from a nanao, but never from a US cab?

I think it's a dynamo cab..maybe, lol. It's the woodie with the big wood board at a 4 degree angle in the middle of the cab. So, I can't take off the whole back.

How's it done?

lots of questions....

1: Should we remove the monitor from the front?

2: Will discharging it be the same?

3: Is discharging it this way safe?

Big screwdriver, thick 3 foot long copper wire from screwdriver to the monitor frame, wear non-conductive rubber gloves, slide under the cap, stand aside, do this 4-5 times and remove the suction cup thing.

4: Should I pull all of the plugs off of the chassis before or after discharging it?

5: Can this be done from inside a US woodie cab, or should I remove the whole monitor etc....from the cab first?


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Re: Best way to get a chassis out of a woodie cab???
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2008, 03:39:38 pm »
He,he.... he said "woodie".

Seriously, if it's the cabinet I'm thinking of then it would probably be easier to reach in from the back and unplug the power and video input then just pull the entire monitor out from the front. But I'm not totally sure which cabinet you are describing.

Aside from that, discharging and such is all the same regardless of where you do it.
I always try to unplug at least the video input to the monitor just to be certain some stray voltage doesn't find it's way back to the game pcb.
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Re: Best way to get a chassis out of a woodie cab???
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2008, 04:18:43 pm »
I'm not sure either; got a picture?