Arcade Concentration and Extermination Camps

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The story's could not be real. Many vectors Star Wars, Tempest, Gravitar, Armor Attack along with many none vectors. Locked inside razer wire fences left to die. At first it was just rummors, but there is now proof. looking at the bones we were able to identify the remains of 3 Tempests, a broken Star Wars Ampliphone tube with the plastic bezel still attached. I was told over 100 machines died here.

We carried some of the evidence to my truck 3 intact 6100 monitors, 2 G05-802 intact monitors, 1 Arrmor Attack monitor, 3 complete Sanyo monitors. I took these monitor home for further inspection. Most of the tubes were burn free.

The Broken Star Wars tube had me close to a break down.

How could this have happened!!!!

There was one complete cab left. a poor Pong. Being there gave me a weird feeling. Death was in the air!!
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Wow, those pics are so sad. Great documentation though.

Did you grab the Pong? I would cut new wood and try to salvage parts from whats left.
 
I could use some purity rings off of one of those dead 6100's. Poor poor vectors... Did the yokes and stuff look good?
 
just looks like someone/s dumped monitors thats all.i mean if there had ben signs of the actual cabs then thats a different matter.someone might have just emptied their storage area.
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just looks like someone/s dumped monitors thats all.i mean if there had ben signs of the actual cabs then thats a different matter.someone might have just emptied their storage area.
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More likely whatever got those monitors stripped from them got turned into Rush 'n Attacks and Two Crudes 5 years before heading into bonfire oblivion!
 
I could use some purity rings off of one of those dead 6100's. Poor poor vectors... Did the yokes and stuff look good?

I did some parts research a while back when looking for a set.

WG new part number is 002A0684-001 I talked with a John Pruski at WG, and this is what he said about the new and old.

probably the only difference that I can remember from the older models is that they used a clamp to fasten them to the neck of the crt and the new ones do not have a clamp but just use friction tape on the neck to keep it from sliding of. You can call our parts dept. at 1 800-336-6630,ext. 2164



 
I could use some purity rings off of one of those dead 6100's. Poor poor vectors... Did the yokes and stuff look good?

There was one tempest monitor with a broken neck, but the yoke and chassis were gone. It did have the neck board I grabbed that for Dokert so he can make a rejuvinator plug for 6100 tubes. The other 3 6100's are complete and fully restorable.

just looks like someone/s dumped monitors thats all.i mean if there had ben signs of the actual cabs then thats a different matter.someone might have just emptied their storage area.
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No the machines were all complete in the back. The cabinets finally collapsed. I got 2 monitors from tempest they were still mounted to the inner wood piece. The guy said the junk cabinets were broken up and hauled off. There are over a hundred intact machines inside the building.

Sounds like the boards were saved. I hope to look thru that stash soon:cool:


Wow, that is realy sad. :(

As posted above, did you grab anything off that Pong?

I did not touch the pong. To much of a project for me.
 
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I did some parts research a while back when looking for a set.

WG new part number is 002A0684-001 I talked with a John Pruski at WG, and this is what he said about the new and old.

probably the only difference that I can remember from the older models is that they used a clamp to fasten them to the neck of the crt and the new ones do not have a clamp but just use friction tape on the neck to keep it from sliding of. You can call our parts dept. at 1 800-336-6630,ext. 2164




Thanks for the info. Will have to look into it. That is the only thing I am missing for my bench monitor I am cobbling together.
 
I have been cleaning up the monitors I brought home. The nicest 6100 was under some other monitors and was pretty clean. I didnt take pictures of it yet. its nice burn free.

Here is what was still attached to the other 2 6100's
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Here are 2 of the 3 6100's, 2 G05-802's, and a Armor Attack monitor.

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6100's pre clean up

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G05-802's were also connected to big chuncks of the wood cabinets that I had to remove.

one of the G05-802's is burn free, can some one tell me what the burn is in the other???

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