DK 3 - Aaagh!!!

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I found a Donkey Kong Jr. that had been converted to a DK 3 today. Unfortunately, it was sitting in an alley outside a house being cleaned out for lease and sat in monsoon like rain all night.

So, being a particle-board style cabinet, it's swollen and the corners are peeling back on it.

I called the number on the sign in front of the house and the leasing company says the owner of the house owns any property left over from the previous person renting the house.

I asked for the owner's number and they wouldn't give it to me, but said that they would pass my number along to him.

Hopefully I can catch him there in the next day or two dealing with the house. By then the cab will be useless, but I can still get good parts off of it if someone doesn't strip it for scrap metal overnight.

Man that's depressing thing to look at, it would have made a decent game for someone a few days ago.

-JM
 
Go pick the game up tommorow. If they call you, figure out how much to pay them for it. If they don't call you, keep the game. Either way, the game doesn't get destroyed any worse than it already is.
 
Well, I pass by the house frequently during the week and managed to catch the owner there today.

I got the game, but not for free like I hoped. I ended up giving them $50 for it, which was worth it to me since I need a monitor to test another Nintendo game. So if it works after a cap kit then I consider it a good deal.

The cab was in worse shape today, since it got wet again through most of the night, but it managed to be loaded into the truck without falling apart.

I'll get some pics up once I get it home and get it safely unloaded. The sides are soft and I can see the shelf inside is trying to pull apart from them, so it looks like this one is going to end up being just a parts donor.

If they would have left it in the garage or put it on the front porch or anywhere else where it would not have gotten wet then it would have been a machine worth rebuilding, but I'm a couple of days late for that.

Oh well, at least it didn't end up hauled off for scrap metal. I was afraid someone was going to bust out the plastic and glass overnight and take the yoke for scrap.

-JM
 
I figure if its in the alley they didn't want it anyway. go get it
 
Here's some pics. The cab is shot, they put a small square button on the cp, and the marquee has some weird stress cracks at the bottom, but the monitor, bezel, and the board set looks nice.

Even though it still had batteries on it they don't look corroded or like they have leaked in the past.

I'm going to use the monitor for testing my other DK Jr. and then use any better parts off of this cab to make the other one nicer.

-JM
 

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In the first pic, it looks pretty good but the other pics show swelling and worse. Too bad that they left it outside like that. It would have been a pretty decent cabinet otherwise.
 
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