Found my first rats nest

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I am pretty happy there were not any friggin rats in it.

Picked up a free cab today. No board just a working G07. I brought a JAMMA board with me to test it out at work and the monitor is fairly decent.

Anyway, I started taking it apart to clean it. The shroud was kind of bowing in the corner...I thought it was just warped.

I took off the glass and the generic bezel and whammo! The piece of wood is the back part of the light and speaker sled in the cab (converted Kangaroo) that was somehow dislodged and this pile of stuffing fell with a bunch of rat shit and other god knows what things in it.

Good Times

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Yea I got a free rats nest too...same type of nest looking material ironically in the same area of the cab up by the monitor. Plenty of free rat droppings to go with it as well. Surprisingly it had one of the cleanest PCBs I've ever owned...huh.. Dunno how that happened. Sadly no free working G07...just a generic Kortec monitor. Don't know if nothing came on the screen because of the wire harness being potentially eaten by rats or the monitor just doesn't work because I pulled the PCB out and put it into one of my cabs and the PCB worked just fine.

Actually I just found a pic of it on my photobucket....



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I should pull the monitor clean, recap, and reflow it. Doesn't look like there's any burn so if I can get it to work I could potentially have a decent spare monitor. The cabs fate might be the dump so if anyone wants the cab for a MAME or conversion you can have it for free. The full plywood cab is nice because the cab is easily the lightest I've ever moved...

It looks like a Stern plywood cab aka the black coffin?
 
I found a rat's nest in the marquee/lightbox area of a Gravitar. It was complete with its owner, who fortunately, was dead.
 
yup i have found a couple of dry skeletons but no live or juicy ones;)
 
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