Gravitar into a Black Widow, Love me some twin stick shooters.

Erock75

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Purchased a Gravitar in excellent condition, Thanks @j0novision Game only has 29 plays, thats $7.25.
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Board has come issues but a couple of new IC's later and was fixed. Thanks @andrewb @lilypad19
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WG 6101 monitor, everything was original, never touched, installed a LV-2K , new cap kit, retouch up some solder areas and fix 2 burnt up components.
Works beautiful, no burn marks.

Clean up cabinet, just a nice wipe down, no big major problems.

Want to convert to a Black widow and to possible change out control panel to go back into Gravitar.
Purchased the Vector Labs, 3 in 1 Multi game.
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Now time to build a control panel for Black Widow.
Had to find a Takeman repo panel, found one, from @mopar5150 Thanks.
Already had some 3.5" original Wicos, so just needed Atari lighted start buttons and cones, from Arcadeshop, along with some molex connectors to go into existing and new controls for Black Widow.
Mockup of controls and wiring.
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Sorry reflection from my kids energy drink collection, we have alot of cans.

Overlay from ArcadeArtShop, Looks great.

Just an FYI.
My panel was completely blank, the challenge was to add the joystick holes in the proper locations.
Just remember use the right tool for the job, purchased a punch (30 mm) to knock out joystick holes then the process was a breeze, tried something earlier and was a fail.

Everything together very happy on the way it turned out, plays great.

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P.S. Found an original glass marquee, need some TLC. @Vectordreams Thanks, time to test my art skills.

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But really, in less than 5 minutes, it can easily converted back to a Gravitar.
NO modifications have been done to the original PCB / cabinet or control panel.
Back to a pristine Gravitar.
 
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