Did they all originally come with the silver coin box, or were some of them black?
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The early production run Defenders had silver doors while the later had black. The silver door version is much more uncommon than the black (and have lower serial numbers).Did they all originally come with the silver coin box, or were some of them black?
The early production run Defenders had silver doors while the later had black. The silver door version is much more uncommon than the black (and have lower serial numbers).
Ah, OK. The Defender that I play on has a black door, and I have a really bombed out, converted, gutted one in the garage that has a silver one. I may have to put the silver one in the good machine! It's really the only part of that poor machine that isn't completely destroyed.
You will need to cut the coin door hole larger, IIRC. The silvers are slightly larger. I have a silver coin door that I am holding onto while waiting a really good Defender with a black door and I remember measuring it once and it is slightly larger than the black Coin Controls doors.
Any resemblance of the silver coin doors to pinball coin doors is purely due to the fact that they were stolen off the pinball production line before the video game production manager started ordering his own coin doors.
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Crap. It looks like I may have the sizes backwards. Damn! Now I'll have to measure them again.....
Incorrect sir, I had a silver door cab and the dude kept the silver door so I put a black one in and had to only adjust the height. Had to cut out an inch or so from the top of the opening, side to side was the same size. So to sum it up you will have to add a piece of wood on the bottom or top of the opening being the black doors are larger.
I think YellowDog is thinking about the Atari Owl Eye door vs the updated "standard" door. The Own Eye door is slightly larger than the standard door so adding one to a standard door model on Asteroids requires a slight cut.
I have switched regular Asteroids coin doors, with owl eye coin doors with no modification. I know I saw a post here on that subject, and thought I was going to have to make the door hole larger. Nope It was a prefect fit. One cab had a serial around 4000 they other 22000. So one was early series cab the other a later series.