AllenBomber
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Greetings. I'm Joshua. I used to work in an arcade years ago, fell in love with the classic machines, and started learning how to fix them. After doing a tour in the military, I got out and started studying EE at the University of Colorado. I was talking to someone a week or so ago about past jobs, and it brought back enough memories for me to go searching for a cab to restore. I started surfing craigslist and it wasn't long before I found a guy dumping a non-functioning Astron Belt cabinet for 50 bucks, so I jumped in my truck and drove to Greely Colorado. I found a cabinet with a little wear, but the side art that Astron Belt is relatively famous for is nearly pristine. The guy told me that he picked it up as non-functioning as well, but couldn't figure it out. He said it worked intermittently at one time, but now nothing. After getting it home, I noticed that the coaxial video cable from the Laser Disc player to the demodulator board wasn't grounded properly, so I re-terminated it. Despite this, the LD wasn't spinning up. Eventually I found a shipping screw on the LD player that prevented spinning. As soon as I released that, everything aside from the joy stick fire button functioned perfectly. I'll be messing with that a bit later, but for now, consider another classic restored.


