Recent Pickup - Mortal Kombat 1!!!

mschwartz01

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I didn't pick up this cabinet this weekend, but I thought I would share...

Recently picked up an original MK1 converted to a UMK3. Came with the UMK3 marquee and Board installed. Got it for $140 because it had a dead k7000 in it and played blind.

Previous owner bought it at an arcade auction in a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. Said he played it for a while until the monitor went out.

Bad news is the side art has a little fade with the control panel box art being the worst... May replace that (let me know if anyone has extra lying around) Also being that it was converted to UMK3, there were run buttons drilled into the panel.

Ordered a new k7000 chassis from Mikerk (Thanks again Mike) and it was instantly playable. Swapped out the board and marquee to the original MK setup.

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The control panel itself was gross. Looked like a whole can of cola had gotten down in there. Pulled it all apart today to clean the joys, buttons, lexan, etc... Low and behold:

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Its cleaning up real nice! I'm going to leave the run buttons in so I can eventually do a multi MK with a Jamma switcher... I have everything except the switcher and MK4 board...

I watched Zen's video on the kick harness diodes a while back. Which diodes were used again?

Hope to have everything back together tonight... Buttons are drying as we speak!
 
Yes, I definitely lucked out on the price...It was higher but I got the price down to $140 while I was there. The whole can of soda spilled through the control panel and dried in the bottom of the cab really helped me there ;)
 
sweet deal!

that CPO is in really nice shape, glad that old overlay came off real easy.
 
Got the overlay cleaned... Goo Gone is much better then Goof Off when it comes to removing the left over adhesive. I was able to reuse the lexan for now even though it wasn't in the best of shape.

I replaced one of the joysticks because it was sticking too much. I could use one more black 8-way if anyone has one they would like to trade for something.

Here is where i'm ending tonight:

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Amazing, I have never been able to save a covered over control panel overlay.

That is a nice enough survivor, just polish it up, don't try to do a full restore.

That joystick is cheap enough to just replace instead of trying to trade for a used one.
 
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