Mike Doyle
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A Missile Command! The seller was a really nice guy and the game had belonged to his dad and had been in his basement since the early 90's. I told him on the phone I'd take it as is and pay his asking price, I hopped in the truck and headed out. At the half way point, I called him and let him know right where I was at and that I was still on my way. Once I got there, he said someone else had called and offered him more money, asked if he had cash in hand from me yet, ect. Pretty low, but kudos to the seller for sticking to his word.
It was really dusty and had a thick coating of smoke, but a couple of hours with some Mean Green and steel wool took care of that. While I had the marquee out, I replaced the bulb and starter. The monitor wasn't coming up and a little checking showed the HOT was out and f901 had blown so I swapped in another chassis. That's when I found out the tube had gotten necked at some point in the past :-(
Luckily I had a 4600 sitting around, so I swapped that in and had a good picture. Now the remaining issue is the trackball opto. It was getting late tonight so I decided to wrap it up for the evening and put everything inside.
Here's a couple of after shots, once the dust and tar were cleaned up, the sideart really shined:
It was really dusty and had a thick coating of smoke, but a couple of hours with some Mean Green and steel wool took care of that. While I had the marquee out, I replaced the bulb and starter. The monitor wasn't coming up and a little checking showed the HOT was out and f901 had blown so I swapped in another chassis. That's when I found out the tube had gotten necked at some point in the past :-(
Luckily I had a 4600 sitting around, so I swapped that in and had a good picture. Now the remaining issue is the trackball opto. It was getting late tonight so I decided to wrap it up for the evening and put everything inside.
Here's a couple of after shots, once the dust and tar were cleaned up, the sideart really shined:


