Free game from an old friend

kjeffery

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I was on facebook the other day and a friend of mine from high school sent me a message asking me if I wanted game he had. He bought this a year or two ago when he was living in Auburn, Al and recently moved to California. He said he could not bring it with him and since he knew I collected games he said its mine for free. So I contacted my other buddy from high school who lives in Auburn also and I had him pick it up for me and store it in his storage unit. My dad lives in Alabama also and makes a trip 2 times a year to see me so he will be hauling this up for me. The games does not work. My buddy doesnt know much about games but he is very smart with electronics. He said the circuit boards is bad because some of the caps were bulging and had minor board damage. He said it did work when he first got and the monitor looks and works wonderful. The cab itself is in awesome shape besides the chunk missing on one side. I plan on just cutting that straight off at an angle and it shouldnt look that bad.

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I plan on cutting like this and routing new tmolding groove and like i said it shouldnt look that bad


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Nice score, especially for free!

Personally I wouldn't cut it down, I'd biscuit or T-slot in a new piece and use a template made off the opposite side to route it to the correct shape, it shouldn't be that tough, and hacking it down would make it look strange IMHO.
 
His only issue would be artwork not there on the new piece. I would offer up high res pics, but mine was converted to a Gauntlet DL and has the midway sticker on it.
 
His only issue would be artwork not there on the new piece. I would offer up high res pics, but mine was converted to a Gauntlet DL and has the midway sticker on it.

True, he could fill it in with black so it wouldn't stick out as bad, but it'll be obvious something happened there. Still, I think it would be lot better than trimming it down, but maybe that's the preservation purist in me.

Either way it kicks ass getting it! I hope you can get the boards working, if it has swollen caps and you know how to solder you might be able to fix it for very little $.
 
True, he could fill it in with black so it wouldn't stick out as bad, but it'll be obvious something happened there. Still, I think it would be lot better than trimming it down, but maybe that's the preservation purist in me.

Hey, I'd probably end up doing the same thing as you with the filling in the piece, but it is all in what his skill set is.

As for those boards, pending on where those caps are, you might be SOL unless you know surface mount. Overall, you should be able to get it running with a bit of work, I know there are a few people who know those Vegas boards like no tomorrow. I spent some time at one point studying the architecture of the boardset along with a few other similar boardsets, but I don't really know them on a PCB level.
 
it probably broke down to the cabinets actual top. I don't know if you can go lower. Personally, I would cut the absolute minimum.. I would smooth out the break, route out a channel for the t-molding and save as much of the art as you can. Or go the other way, Fill the missing part with wood and paint it black.
 
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