Naughty Boy Restore

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Bought a bundle of 3 projects this is one. Probably the fastest restore I have ever done. It took two afternoons. The reasons it went so fast are the fact that I have now got two teenage guy helpers and some dumb luck. Here are the first pics...

NaughtyBoyFront.jpg


NaughtyBoyLeftSide.jpg


NaughtyBoyRightSide.jpg


NaughtyBoyMarquee.jpg


NaughtyBoyLowerFront.jpg


The game was super dirty. The control panel was missing the bolts to hold it onto the cab so it was just loose. The monitor was having some sync issues where the game would load fine but after a minute the screen would scramble. The control panel's 1 player start button was broke.

Not the worst condition but needed some work.
 
Opened the back door and saw that it was filled with trash (or so I thought). Saw a power supply on the bottom when everything else was mounted on the sides. I thought I had my work cut out for me. I grabbed the power supply and it had some bubble wrap on it. I grabbed a piece of cardboard from the bottom and found that this was a box for the power supply. Found a baggie that turned out to be mounting hardware. Apperently someone bought a new power supply and decided not to use it so I got a fancy NOS switching power supply for use on another project. Also found the machine's manual and a lot of record slips for keeping track of the number of plays and such. Found the bolt sets for the control panel. Turns out that whenever something was taken off they just threw it in the bottom of the cab.

Cleaned inside the cab and secured all of the monitor cables to fix the scramble issue...worked like a charm. Went to check the game and turns out all of the dip switch settings were turned off. That made the game go into cocktail mode instead of upright. So I went back and put it into factory settings (thanks to the manual). Game and monitor issues fixed.

Reattached the control panel. Then replaced the buttons and switches. It had broken leaf switches and changed it to nice micros. Also changed the white buttons for black ones to better match the cab (and black was the only color I had). Fixed the wiring for Player One Start.

Changed the bayonet bulbs for the coin rejects.

Then came the scrub down. The cab was filthy. I used rubbing alcohol, magic erasers, and even Spitfire along with about 5 clean white rags to do the job. All of the rags came out very dark brown. It was quite gross. Cleaned and shined the bezel with Novus 1, 2, and 3. Here are the after pix...

NaughtyBoyFront-1.jpg


NaughtyBoyLeftSide-1.jpg


NaughtyBoyRightSide-1.jpg


I don't try to make my games perfect as they are 30 years old and I think the little dings give it character. Someone cut on the Naughty Boy's eyes on the side art (a naughty boy must have done it). There are a couple of scratches on the cab. All this is fine with me. The only things that still need done is to change the marquee bulb and new T-molding but that stuff will have to wait until I have funds. Hope you enjoyed my mini post.
 
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Looks like whomever did the artwork for Moppet did it for that game too!

It sure does.

Neat game. So, two other things I'm noticing:

*The cab sort of has the shape of a Warrior cab...or are they identical?
*The score tables / colors / etc. make it look like it runs on hardware similar to Phoenix.
 
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