MaximRecoil
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How many of you are using original Nintendo marquee lamp fixtures?
When I first got my Super Punch-Out machine in late 2005 (which was also my first arcade machine), I wanted to use its original marquee lamp fixture. It had no lamp at all, though it still had its starter. I started this thread on BYOAC asking about where to get a lamp for it:
No one seemed to know. So I swapped in a standard 18" 120v fixture and it worked fine ever since:
I drilled new mounting holes in the fixture to match up with the original screw holes in the cabinet (because I had it in the back of my mind that I'd put the original fixture back in its rightful place if I could ever find a lamp for it, and I didn't want to make new screw holes in the cabinet). I also bought a cheap white extension cord from the dollar store, cut it to the right length, and spliced it into the fixture so as to have a long enough cord for an SPO machine.
A couple of years later I came across threads on this forum with information about where to get lamps and starters for Nintendo fixtures, and I was about to buy some, but I couldn't find my original fixture anywhere. It of course wasn't in the place that I thought I'd left it. So I forgot about it, and then recently I came across it while looking for something else. Then I remembered that I'd put it there so I wouldn't forget where it was, which ironically had the opposite effect. It was filthy from decades of dirt that had caked on it, so I thought I could quickly clean it up with some rubbing alcohol. Wrong. Rubbing alcohol didn't even put a dent in that caked on grime no matter how much I scrubbed. However, oven cleaner made quick work of it, and it cleaned up nicely aside from some minor staining in some areas that seems to have gotten into the white paint itself.
So I ordered a couple of FG7E starters and a couple of FL10D lamps from Bulbtronics (the glass starter in the picture is the original NEC one that was still in the fixture when I got the machine):
It works perfectly:
I know it doesn't really matter what you use for a marquee lamp fixture, but I just like having original parts whenever possible. It was nice seeing the old memory bends in its cord lining up with all of the original wire retainer things in the cabinet as I routed it along its original path and plugged it in.
So this machine is mostly original now, including its original black finish, T-molding, Sanyo 20-Z2AW monitors (burn-free), power supply, wiring harnesses, CPO, controls, bezel, marquee, etc. Some of the parts are "original" in the sense that they are original Nintendo parts, but they came from other PO or SPO machines. The only reproduction items on it now are artwork related, i.e., the screen printed "Super" side decals, screen printed "Ducking Pull" decal (both of which I helped to reproduce by vectorizing scans of NOS originals), and the screen printed "Punch-Out" sideart (from QuarterArcade, I had nothing to do with reproducing those, though they are excellent).
ETA: And here is a full picture of the machine. It isn't pristine like a machine that's been sanded down and had a full-blown restoration, but it is in rather good condition considering it is pretty much all original. The original T-molding still being in good shape (no missing chunks, no significant cracks) is what surprised me the most when I got this machine 7 years ago:
When I first got my Super Punch-Out machine in late 2005 (which was also my first arcade machine), I wanted to use its original marquee lamp fixture. It had no lamp at all, though it still had its starter. I started this thread on BYOAC asking about where to get a lamp for it:
2.) The fluorescent bulb for the marquee is missing. The fixture itself appears to be original to the machine. I have read that an exact replacement would be a 12" NEC FL10D. Where can I get one? The only references I see to that bulb online are on Japanese sites and one Australian site, and I'd imagine prohibitive shipping costs from either. I'd rather not swap in a standard 120v fixture if it is at all avoidable.
No one seemed to know. So I swapped in a standard 18" 120v fixture and it worked fine ever since:
I drilled new mounting holes in the fixture to match up with the original screw holes in the cabinet (because I had it in the back of my mind that I'd put the original fixture back in its rightful place if I could ever find a lamp for it, and I didn't want to make new screw holes in the cabinet). I also bought a cheap white extension cord from the dollar store, cut it to the right length, and spliced it into the fixture so as to have a long enough cord for an SPO machine.
A couple of years later I came across threads on this forum with information about where to get lamps and starters for Nintendo fixtures, and I was about to buy some, but I couldn't find my original fixture anywhere. It of course wasn't in the place that I thought I'd left it. So I forgot about it, and then recently I came across it while looking for something else. Then I remembered that I'd put it there so I wouldn't forget where it was, which ironically had the opposite effect. It was filthy from decades of dirt that had caked on it, so I thought I could quickly clean it up with some rubbing alcohol. Wrong. Rubbing alcohol didn't even put a dent in that caked on grime no matter how much I scrubbed. However, oven cleaner made quick work of it, and it cleaned up nicely aside from some minor staining in some areas that seems to have gotten into the white paint itself.
So I ordered a couple of FG7E starters and a couple of FL10D lamps from Bulbtronics (the glass starter in the picture is the original NEC one that was still in the fixture when I got the machine):
It works perfectly:
I know it doesn't really matter what you use for a marquee lamp fixture, but I just like having original parts whenever possible. It was nice seeing the old memory bends in its cord lining up with all of the original wire retainer things in the cabinet as I routed it along its original path and plugged it in.
So this machine is mostly original now, including its original black finish, T-molding, Sanyo 20-Z2AW monitors (burn-free), power supply, wiring harnesses, CPO, controls, bezel, marquee, etc. Some of the parts are "original" in the sense that they are original Nintendo parts, but they came from other PO or SPO machines. The only reproduction items on it now are artwork related, i.e., the screen printed "Super" side decals, screen printed "Ducking Pull" decal (both of which I helped to reproduce by vectorizing scans of NOS originals), and the screen printed "Punch-Out" sideart (from QuarterArcade, I had nothing to do with reproducing those, though they are excellent).
ETA: And here is a full picture of the machine. It isn't pristine like a machine that's been sanded down and had a full-blown restoration, but it is in rather good condition considering it is pretty much all original. The original T-molding still being in good shape (no missing chunks, no significant cracks) is what surprised me the most when I got this machine 7 years ago:
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