Holy Nintendo Restoration!

Groovie_Ghoulie

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Hello Everyone! After reading, lurking and learning as much as possible on this "killer" forum it is time for this noob to get his hands dirty!

I have acquired a few Nintendo games over the past few months as well as the parts needed to do a proper restore for each game. Props to Riptor, he was the first person I EVER bought something from over a forum! He was honest, pricing was fair and shipped quickly. I thanked him via PM and would like to do so again here. SO thanks again Riptor!

I'll post pics as I go and share any problems as well as successes.

I know I may get called a fanboy for Nintendo (and I am) but since this is my first attempt to restore, I figured I'd start with Nintendo games because the "guts" are pretty similar and I think it would be a good learning/starting point.

Below are some questions I have. Some are serious while others are not..

Q's: 1 monitor has some decent burns and 1 monitors blue gun is dead.

Is there a place to buy similar replacements?

How do you go about tube swapping?

How do you know what is compatible?

^^ Questions above are my main concern at this point. ^^

Q: How many games must you own before you can officially name your home arcade? :)

Q : I see a few Nintendo guys on the forum anyone want to take a noob under their wing for a bit?

Anyway wish me luck. If you have any answers/advice for the questions above, I appreciate any feedback.

Thanks to all ahead of time!

Mike
 

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I'm not much of a monitor guy so I can't offer any advice...

I say name your room whenever you want. If you had 2 games you could name it. Looks like you have a great start, go nuts.
 
That is a nice line-up if I do say sso myself. Major props on game selection. I am not an expert on the monitor issues but I would say you have enough games to give the space a name. And all of your games have the pedestals on them so that's one less thing to worry about. As for the tubes, I don't know if there is a compatible donor out there but there are definitely some KLOVers that have burn free or minimal burn tubes (however, they aren't cheap). Good luck on the restores...take lots of pictures and post them as you progress.
 
Q's: 1 monitor has some decent burns and 1 monitors blue gun is dead.

Is there a place to buy similar replacements?

How do you go about tube swapping?

How do you know what is compatible?

Hi, how do you know the fault is the blue beam in the tube? you replaced the chassis? if that's the case you must replace the tube, I think most 20" tubes would do but you have to transfer the deflection coil from the original tube to the new one as each yoke has it's own impedance. then you have to allign the colors using the magnet rings on the neck (be very careful there's high tension in the monitor!!!) which could take a while. And while you have the monitor pcbs out you should recap them (I am telling this to myself...).
 
Hi, how do you know the fault is the blue beam in the tube? you replaced the chassis? if that's the case you must replace the tube, I think most 20" tubes would do but you have to transfer the deflection coil from the original tube to the new one as each yoke has it's own impedance. then you have to allign the colors using the magnet rings on the neck (be very careful there's high tension in the monitor!!!) which could take a while. And while you have the monitor pcbs out you should recap them (I am telling this to myself...).



I had one of my Engineers come over with his rejuvenator. He's been in Broadcast and tv repairs for 25 + years..

Smart guy, I trust him and per the research I did sounds about right.

Funny thing is that I did soooo much research on repairing, restoring making sure things were original etc and the one thing I overlooked was monitor issues/repairs..

Boy, this is going to suck B@lls..
 
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