Get any holiday weekend projects done?

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Managed to tick off quite a few things.

Sat - fixed cold solder joints on Wells 25" and fixed intermittent sound on Seibu SPI mobo (caps in audio section).

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Sunday - ground up Gauntlet restore finished! (Sideart and CP installed, Wicos instead of Atari sticks, can't afford Atari prices)

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Monday - disassembled Outrun control panel to clean it before installing the center cap I've had on a shelf for 4 months.

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I had a really productive weekend.

Had an original Xbox show up at my door Saturday from a garage sale 50 feet from my house. With 25 games. Wouldn't read discs. Tore it apart, blew out the dust, opened the DVD player and cleaned up the lens. Now works. Woot!

Swapped out a blown amp chip in a Panasonic All-in-one record player / stereo / cassette player. Restored it to 100% functionality. Woot Woot!

Emboldened by my repair mojo, I decided to take on the rebuild of the power, MPU and driver boards in the Black Knight pin I grabbed last winter. It's been sitting in my laundry room since January. Rebuilt the boards and the machine came back to life. Woot Woot WOOT!

I'm stopping now, while I'm ahead.
 
I was sick but I was gonna cap my dad's coworkers son's sanyo 20ez but that didnt work out. Sent my dk boards to mikes arcade i guess :(
 
I finally did the cap kits on my Vs Dualsystem, they look 100X better but I still can't get them the same or the white balance quite right. I rebuilt the sound boards and put caps on the output transformers to get rid of the "Nintendo hum" when I put the Vs mario board in there too.
 
I got my Crazy Kong cabinet (actually, an old Stern cab) painted and one side of it covered in laminate. The rest of the weekend was spent doing landscaping in my backyard...

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Moved some stuff around to make it work a little better in the basement. I managed to get around to finally swapping in the burn free monitors I had waiting for my Baby Pacman, Galaga, and ArcadeSD (Multi-Williams). I was having a monitor issue on my Attack From Mars I recently picked up and found that it was due to the monitor chassis being mounted to the frame with cable ties with a piece of cardboard box insulating it from the frame. It was causing the red and green to short out. Mounted that properly and solved the problem.

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The only thing I got done is that I tested out a couple of VS games to make sure they were working. They were. Job done in about 15 minutes. 1 minute was turning it on and seeing that it worked and the other 14 was where I lost track of time playing the games.
 
It's always great to see what others are doing. Thanks.

I had a fun, productive weekend. Finished up this scratch built, scaled down, custom Track and Field inspired cabinet.

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Also, finished up hanging a bunch of lightbox maquees in the basement, and picked up my next project cabinet.

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Not quite done, but definitely got things under way. Bought a can of wood hardener and had a go at Pole Position(put some on Lunar Lander, too).... just need to borrow some c-clamps to finish that up.

Yesterday, my wife left me alone to my projects... but I was also taking care of some other "household" things at the same time.

Edit: I also secured PPs t-molding back down. I still need to get over to Michael's craft store to pick up a new shroud for it, too. (Spaeth's idea.... and a damned good one, too.)

I still need to get some leg levelers for it, and hit the bottom of the cabinet with the wood hardener. Probably going to need another can of it..... shit's expensive. :(
 
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Kaydee and I had a very productive weekend!

* Completed monitor repair on an Asteroids Deluxe we picked up locally for $170 playing blind. The Y-channel had pretty much completely blown, taking the chassis mounted transistors for that channel with it. Took us a while to determine the full extent of the damage, but when we eventually got the monitor up, it had vertical collapse and was blowing a fuse... switched the fuse, disconnected the transistors for that channel, hooked up the transistors for the other channel, and got collapse the other way... Fry's Electronics had the NTE replacements for them, and its all running great now. We also replaced starters and tubes for the marquee and blacklight and this thing is pretty at night :)

* Applied Cap Kit and B+ kit to a Sanyo 20EZ that is in our Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters, because of course that's the monitor that would be in there. I got this machine off eBay about a decade ago. This monitor was getting some weird weakness on whites as well as having a few lines from the top of the screen cut off, so you could only see about 1/2 of the text that it puts up there. Worked great after applying these kits. Didn't take a photo of this one yet.

* Applied Cap Kit to WG4903 inside of my System I with RoadRunner installed. While working on that, found one of the disc shaped capacitors on the neckboard was dried and cracked. This monitor was very dim on one side and had pretty bad color bleed. Applied the cap kit, found a suitable replacement for the broken neck board capacitor, and it looks like a new monitor. Amazing what not having components that are cracked and split open can do!

Our next big project is Spy Hunter. We have a cabinet in bad physical shape (no water damage, just needs to start with lots of wood work)... new art on the way from This Old Game, and about three full sets of boards, none tested, a couple of monitors that might work... wish us luck! We'll share this one as it progresses, and with any luck, I'll have some Spy Hunter parts to sell when we are finished :)
 

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Washed a monitor and chassis for the first time. Kinda scary pointing a hose at it.
Spent 4 hours pulling glue and bits of old CPO off my Robotron control panel. Still feels like there are hours of work left to get it perfect.
Applied multiple coats of bonds to the bottom edge of my Robotron cab. I'm amazed at how much better it looks with a semi clean and sharp bottom edge.
 
That Outrun is looking good.

I had a chance to go down to the shop to assemble and sand the cabinet and to unroll the side art,kickplate,and cpo for the Samurai Shodown II dedicated cab. Rebuilt some Wico sticks for the TMNT project and rebuilt the control panel. But now the sound chip finally went bad and that static blast is just what I needed at 6am. And for the classics,Crystal Castles decided it plays blind now.Also I got around to ordering a scanner to backup some missing jamma games art in high-res.
 
I rebuilt the steering wheels on Super Sprint and replaced the plastic spindle with the metal ones from Championship sprint. All 3 of the plastic spindles were cracked.

Cut a new plexi for the Roadblasters cockpit. The rest of the parts to rebuild the controller won't be here until tomorrow, so that was all I could get done.
 
Picked up an Out Run mini and made a few adjustments until some of my replacement parts come in.

Also started trying to take a layer of black paint off my Gyruss which has been sitting like that for a couple of years now. It's actually going pretty well, but it'll take some time for sure...
 
Had a lot to do this weekend but managed to get a few small items done.
1. Finally got my Midway coin door bent back into shape, pieces welded back on, ground down the weld spots, wire brushed it and painted. Not perfect but I think it turned out okay.
2. Stripped the front of the Bosconian cabinet, applied wood hardener where necessary, scraped and sanded down the water damage high spots, Bondo on the bottom and put a couple of coats of high build primer on it to fill in any small scrapes. Got to get it done so I can put the coin door back in.
3. While the paint was drying I unpacked my Gunfight that I bought a few months ago. I had never turned it on. Cleaned out the cab bottom, found disconnections and broken wires but overall it wasn't bad at all! Turned it on and got a "white" screen. Checked voltages and they were great (amazing for such an old game). Took out the boards, cleaned and deoxit, re-seated chips and when I put it back together it came up and ran! Needs monitor tweaking and some joystick work but overall a success!

That's about all I got to but that's pretty good for me. Oh, but I put off cutting the grass and now I have to do it this evening. Sigh!
 

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Began the restoration of a Taito (QIX style) cabinet. Disassembled it, bondo'd, sanded, bondo'd, sanded, bondo'd sanded, primed, sanded, primed, sanded, sanded, sanded...a lot of work for something I know will ultimately still look like crap because I suck at painting :(
 
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