Data East Commando?

[Scott C]

Here are pictures of the cabinet I've spoken about. In the picture of the inside bottom, the clean rectangle is where the previously pictured power supply section was. The other pictures show the Data East stickers, including the model #, the Commando CPO remnant, the light fixture, etc.

Scott C.

 

[kidrivers]

Thanks, I haven't seen that cabinet with that layout on the inside.

 

[DonPanetta]

hopefully not confusing the situation, but no power switch that i can find in my Commando.
it's hard to see in the pic, but the line filter is fixed above the interlock


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there is a hole top center of the cabinet, maybe this is where the power switch woulda gone? dunno if this lends any clues, but good luck OP

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Thanks, I haven't seen that cabinet with that layout on the inside.

It's clear that this is a bit of a complex situation that really hasn't been addressed on KLOV before. There are in the very least some revisions of this cabinet. I'm going to go as far as to suspect there may be more than 2 manufacturers of this cabient but I don't want to elaborate much on that yet. I will just post some pics and research what I've found so far.


one very much like the one @ElectricDreamz The sticker is beat to hell but you can clearly see the DY showing this was manufactured by Dynamo

 

[DonPanetta]

Here's another one. This one clearly uses much finer grain particle board on the inside and does not have the "Manufactured by Dynamo" sticker on the back. It also does not have a "Made In Japan sticker". It could have fallen off or this could have been made by yet another company in the US or elsewhere.

 

[DonPanetta]

One very similar to @Scott C Commando with nearly identical power block (at least what we can see of it). The big difference here is the heavy use of OSB plywood everywhere.

 

[Scott C]

Thanks to everyone that posted. I never knew there were variants of this cabinet, the internal differences, the manufacturing differences, etc. Great info! That last picture also answered questions about how the ground wire is routed. Thanks @DonPanetta.

Scott C.

 

[Scott C]

I've decided for the sake of preserving as much of the original game as possible to include the original power block. Aside from a few wires being cut and missing the switcher, it's intact. I am fixing those wires, adding back a switcher, and proceeding. One point of interest is, the wood the power block is made of is the same, black melamine looking stuff as the sides are made of. The bottom of the power block matches the outer cabinet sides. It suggest the factory had extra material or the side of a cabinet was goofed, so they cut it up.

Scott C.

 

[vintagegamer]

Love Commando. Played it a ton at the local pizza shop. The sounds are timeless.

 

[Scott C]

Anyone know specifically the size of the leg levelers? All four are missing on my cabinet and it's a smaller thread (the screw in thread) than what Atari used. The threaded bolt the leg levelers screw into are embedded in the wood slats on the cabinet bottom. Just want to confirm before buying since I'm not finding the needed detsils. Thanks.

Scott C.

 

[DonPanetta]

Anyone know specifically the size of the leg levelers? All four are missing on my cabinet and it's a smaller thread (the screw in thread) than what Atari used. The threaded bolt the leg levelers screw into are embedded in the wood slats on the cabinet bottom. Just want to confirm before buying since I'm not finding the needed detsils. Thanks.

Scott C.

The only thing i can suggest is that you either grab some spare bolts (including metric) and screw them in to see if you find out which thread that is specifically and then go from there. The other thing you can do is if the leg levelers are threaded on with T-nuts is remove and replace the T-nuts with the more common size for common leg levelers.

 

[Scott C]

The only thing i can suggest is that you either grab some spare bolts (including metric) and screw them in to see if you find out which thread that is specifically and then go from there. The other thing you can do is if the leg levelers are threaded on with T-nuts is remove and replace the T-nuts with the more common size for common leg levelers.

Agreed, as I think that's where I am. APAR are out, so hopefully I can find what I need elsewhere.

Scott C.