Greetings from Portland, Oregon

HedgeHog321

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Hey everyone!

I just joined up last night. Back in 2002 I built a MAME cocktail cabinet and brought it out for my kids' birthdays and New Year's Eve parties. It was always a hit. Some years back, a friend of mine "gave" me his Gauntlet machine. Apparently it gets passed around between him and a few of his old coworkers, and it was his turn to take/store it. As my basement is bigger than his garage, that's where we put it. My kids are now grown, but my nephews and nieces have love having it when they come visit.

About 10 years ago, I was also gifted a gutted Atari System 1 cabinet. It's been sitting in the basement waiting for attention.

And last year, I was given an unknown control panel with joysticks/buttons, a coin door mechanism, and a CRT that may or may not be salvageable (I'll post pics of that in a separate post). Ideally, I'd love to get that CRT into one the machines I have.

Earlier this year, the VGA monitor in the cocktail cabinet quit working. I've tried to find a local repair shop that would take a look at it, but no one wants to touch a CRT anymore. LCD/flat panel only. :( I've put an old LCD in it, but am missing the look of the CRT. Hoping to find help and idea for it here.

Additionally, I finally have time to work on the System 1 cab. Learned last night that I missed a run of custom control panels by a year or two. Ugh!!! Time to get active on here and stay alert!
 
First off.... Welcome!

If you love the CRT it really isn't hard to fix with the resources on this forum.

First step throw it in the machine and log what it's doing or not doing. Take some pics and post questions, use the process of elimination to find your next steps. If you want to attempt the repair yourself there is plenty of guidance. If not, ask for a recommendation on the repair.

LCD is not the way. o_O
 
Welcome to the best arcade forum in the world. Like these other guys said, show a pic of the monitor and we can at least tell you what you have and send you down the right path to repair.

If you like emails, we have a local arcade collector email group I can add you on. Just send me a PM with your email.
 
Always good to have more PDX folks in the mix. As Brick Top said, welcome to the best arcade resource online. Play around with the search function in the upper right and trust that the the odds are good that issues you run into have been encountered by others and hashed out to some degree. An amazing amount of knowledge about an amazing amount of games resides here. Dig in!
 
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