I keep poking around your website and thought you were out of the game. Is there enough stuff left such that I could build 2 HV boards. Put me down if so
Restoring some galaga sticks and plating everything. I can do zinc with a black chromate, which is like a satin black or nickel on the sticks and can’t tell what was original. Same effort either way.
I’d lean to chrome since I can see copper on mine, but honestly there’s a lot of black there...
I know this is old, but if these are the long skeeball board like in lightning or tower of power, the cpus and sockets were always failing on us. In a skeeball, they were getting beat to snot because skeeball mounted them flat and they were getting knocked around a lot.
Except the only thing that you can't get anymore, a 100 degree 19" CRT. Are you gonna burn out your heater? Probably not. But they are on a ticking clock.
I'd consider 8% a lot, especially with your crt filament heaters running at 6.8v. Most everything else that's gonna eat that overload is still generally available.
But i guess in the real world, I don't know how much life that equates to in a collectors ideal environment.