Missile Storm

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This has been floating around EU forums for a few weeks, I've submitted the info to the main klov site and a pic, but here's an Italian bootleg of Missile Command:

missile_storm2.jpg


http://www.system11.org/temp/Arcade/Cabs/Missile Storm/missile_storm1.jpg
http://www.system11.org/temp/Arcade/Cabs/Missile Storm/missile_storm4.jpg

It's one of the machines from the infamous Duke of Lancaster ship raid, I've got the other one of these too but will be selling that on for someone else to restore. You can't tell from the photos but the panel slopes down away from the player, and theres a gap all the way between it and the cab, it's mounted on small steel struts, very strange. Total list of work done to get that how it looks now:

Cabinet stripped.
Cabinet cleaned (gently! 25 years of sea salt on everything), metal rails removed, polished and refitted with new tacks, t-molding polished, some slight edge damage on the black touched up here and there.
Coin door totally stripped, cleaned, polished, all parts replaced or de-rusted and polished.
Control panel stripped, trackball stripped, cleaned, de-rusted, rebuilt - may have new rollers made so I have spares, unique Sidam part. Bearings reconditioned due to difficulty getting new ones that were free running enough. Buttons dismantled and cleaned. Panel cleaned and polished.
All metal control panel mounting parts cleaned and re-plated where required.
Black metal trim all removed, cleaned, polished.
PCB sound caps replaced as they were in very poor shape.
Power supply stripped, new line filter, rebuild with new diodes and caps, new power cable made up.
Monitor stripped, shielding de-rusted (created a WHOLE PILE of rust+paint from this part alone), rust protected and primered, chassis dusted out, rebuilt - did not explode, very happy.
Bezel reinforced to restore to correct shape as far as possible - may work on this again sometime to make perfect.
Light fixture and marquee cleaned, new strip light, found someone had disconnected the speaker. No idea why.
Then it was all put back together again, new screws/etc where possible, earth terminals polished and tested.

There's a bunch of photos from the dismantling stage in that same directory so you can see how bad it was.
 
I love it. One of those two had my name on it, but I had to let it go because of space reasons...

A masterful job IMHO and a lovely cabinet !!!! Sidam = king of bootleggers.

I really hope to play it one day, I am positive that the controls are more comfortable because of the inward tilt of the CP (like on Sidam's Asterock, which is in the same cab).
 
Nice work. I love seeing these cabs from other parts of the world. It would be really cool to own a game that was rescued from an epic ship raid like this one was.
 
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