I might be picking up a couple of Asteroids cabinets (one is Asteroids and one is Asteroids Deluxe) which I haven't seen yet. They both "worked 7 years ago but I haven't used them since", which I know means "they don't work.
If I picked them both up, with the goal of combining them into one good, solid, working machine, and selling off the extra parts, what am I getting myself into? Monitor problems, board problems, power supply problems... what seems likely and what's the worst case?
I do not plan to do any restoration to the cabinets -- if both cabinets are in poor shape, I'll be passing on the deal.
EDIT: I guess my real question is: Should I even bother doing this? Am I really setting myself up for heartbreak, frustration, and a money pit, or should it be relatively easy to get together? I'm relatively competent with a DMM and a soldering iron... I understand it's hard to successfully predict odds of success with such a lack of information, but still.. I guess I'm looking more for advice like "Asteroids is easy to repair and maintain! Go for it" or "Vector monitors are impossible to keep up and running -- don't bother unless you know it's a good one" etc.
If I picked them both up, with the goal of combining them into one good, solid, working machine, and selling off the extra parts, what am I getting myself into? Monitor problems, board problems, power supply problems... what seems likely and what's the worst case?
I do not plan to do any restoration to the cabinets -- if both cabinets are in poor shape, I'll be passing on the deal.
EDIT: I guess my real question is: Should I even bother doing this? Am I really setting myself up for heartbreak, frustration, and a money pit, or should it be relatively easy to get together? I'm relatively competent with a DMM and a soldering iron... I understand it's hard to successfully predict odds of success with such a lack of information, but still.. I guess I'm looking more for advice like "Asteroids is easy to repair and maintain! Go for it" or "Vector monitors are impossible to keep up and running -- don't bother unless you know it's a good one" etc.
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