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Arcade Collecting => Restorations & repair => Topic started by: Mike A on April 05, 2023, 07:39:00 am

Title: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 05, 2023, 07:39:00 am

Buckle up.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: PL1 on April 05, 2023, 11:52:22 am

Will the Captain pistol-whip Farva?   :lol

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Scott

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: bobbyb13 on April 05, 2023, 12:51:37 pm

Yes...

Pics and video please!

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: pbj on April 05, 2023, 05:17:29 pm

I pray it involves a step ladder and zip ties for the basement wiring.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 06, 2023, 07:57:05 am

I never worked on a black and white monitor before.

It was mostly fixing broken and bad traces. The PCB is fragile.

I also recapped it.

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I didn't have a way to output a black and white composite signal in my shop.

So I grabbed an NES and made an adapter to plug it into the monitor.

And as with all of my work,

credit goes to Arroyo and Bperkins01 for help, and a kick in the ass when needed.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 06, 2023, 08:07:24 am

I recently drove to Des Moines, Iowa for an arcade auction. The auction sucked balls, but we found this place. #worthit.

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Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: JimmyU on April 07, 2023, 09:42:09 pm

What game do you need a B&W monitor?🤔🤔🤔

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 07, 2023, 09:52:11 pm

It was for Skydiver.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Howard_Casto on April 08, 2023, 09:34:01 pm

Damn.... now I have to go to Iowa....

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 10, 2023, 06:33:40 am

Building an Asteroids cab.

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Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 10, 2023, 06:35:36 am

Bought a waterlogged Asteroids cab  for 100 bucks.

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Sent from my Pixel 6 using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 10, 2023, 06:38:39 am

The power brick was pretty crusty.

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Some percussive maintenance was necessary to bag things into shape.

It looks much better now and it outputs all of the correct voltages.

Some people really clean up the transformer. I don't like to mess with it too much.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 10, 2023, 06:40:15 am

I messed with the AR board.

The 5v line is showing 14V. Hmmmm not good.

Probably the 5v regulator. Stay tuned...(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230410/6ea4ab246e5da678490da3a1a4d2cea9.jpg)

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: bobbyb13 on April 10, 2023, 02:58:07 pm

Nice to see some more action over there.
You still have room for more cabinets?

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Arroyo on April 10, 2023, 03:42:31 pm

Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 10, 2023, 02:58:07 pm

Nice to see some more action over there.
You still have room for more cabinets?

No room is safe from conversion at Mikey’s place.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Arroyo on April 10, 2023, 03:42:55 pm

Great work all around, it will be fun to see that thing come together.

Title: Re: Alpha Centuri Restoration Work (and shenanigans)
Post by: Mike A on April 10, 2023, 04:28:04 pm

Quote from: bobbyb13 on April 10, 2023, 02:58:07 pm

Nice to see some more action over there.
You still have room for more cabinets?

Yup. Plenty of space.