wxforecaster
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Well, it finally arrived! Picked up a Donkey Kong Jr. upright on CL yesterday, and I look forward to doing my first, and hopefully quick restore on it.
The Good: The price was right at $250, but it was listed as being in perfect working order. Halfway up to the gentleman's house, he calls me to tell me he went to double check everything and it won't power up. I decided to go there anyway to help him out (he was super nice on the phone and I know he wanted to make this happen). Turns out someone had yanked the cord out of the wall at some point and pulled the neutral wire off the plug. Easy fix (he was pretty happy). However, when we powered it up, the monitor (see below) has some serious issues that hopefully can be cleared up with a cap kit and adjustments. After some back and forth, we settled on $200 including him delivering it in his trailer to my garage.
The Bad: Not much! Will need to replace the two pronged cord (no ground) and repair the monitor, but the game is in really excellent shape. A few things (discussed below), but I'm really happy with this deal.
The Ugly: He had no keys, so we couldn't even look at the monitor. I was going to drill out the lock but another KLOVer is going to bail me out and send me keys so I can preserve the lock.
Summary of Plans to Repair/Restore...once I get a working rear entry key from KLOVer "Buffett"
1.) Apply cap kit and adjust monitor
2.) Acquire second coin door mechanism and wire.
3.) Add lock to coin door
4.) Replace t-molding
5.) Fix marquee light and/or starter
6.) Replace joystick
7.) Replace 2 of 3 buttons which have no spring left in them
8.) Replace severely faded instruction card, sticker and coin sticker
9.) Replace metal trim piece above marquee
10.) Replace side art
11.) Upgrade to Double Donkey Kong -- still not sold on this given the sound issue, especially the DK Mario walking sound which sounds like DK Jr climbing the vines.
I do have some questions embedded below -- please feel free to comment/answer
Evan
Game #11874
Are you the keymaster? Lord of the (key) Ring is blocking my access to the monitor.
Yikes, re-attached the neutral to test the game, but this definitely needs a proper 3-pronged plug.
Left side has about 90% of the side art, but I can't leave it this way
Right side has no side art, but looks really nice. Just a few deep gouges.
The Good: The price was right at $250, but it was listed as being in perfect working order. Halfway up to the gentleman's house, he calls me to tell me he went to double check everything and it won't power up. I decided to go there anyway to help him out (he was super nice on the phone and I know he wanted to make this happen). Turns out someone had yanked the cord out of the wall at some point and pulled the neutral wire off the plug. Easy fix (he was pretty happy). However, when we powered it up, the monitor (see below) has some serious issues that hopefully can be cleared up with a cap kit and adjustments. After some back and forth, we settled on $200 including him delivering it in his trailer to my garage.
The Bad: Not much! Will need to replace the two pronged cord (no ground) and repair the monitor, but the game is in really excellent shape. A few things (discussed below), but I'm really happy with this deal.
The Ugly: He had no keys, so we couldn't even look at the monitor. I was going to drill out the lock but another KLOVer is going to bail me out and send me keys so I can preserve the lock.
Summary of Plans to Repair/Restore...once I get a working rear entry key from KLOVer "Buffett"
1.) Apply cap kit and adjust monitor
2.) Acquire second coin door mechanism and wire.
3.) Add lock to coin door
4.) Replace t-molding
5.) Fix marquee light and/or starter
6.) Replace joystick
7.) Replace 2 of 3 buttons which have no spring left in them
8.) Replace severely faded instruction card, sticker and coin sticker
9.) Replace metal trim piece above marquee
10.) Replace side art
11.) Upgrade to Double Donkey Kong -- still not sold on this given the sound issue, especially the DK Mario walking sound which sounds like DK Jr climbing the vines.
I do have some questions embedded below -- please feel free to comment/answer
Evan
Game #11874
Are you the keymaster? Lord of the (key) Ring is blocking my access to the monitor.
Yikes, re-attached the neutral to test the game, but this definitely needs a proper 3-pronged plug.
Left side has about 90% of the side art, but I can't leave it this way
Right side has no side art, but looks really nice. Just a few deep gouges.
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