Scucci
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While I was up at the arcade, Jay Gallagher stopped by to work on a few of his machines... ... he brought a rejuvenator with him.
After watching him clean his 4600 on Frogger... I had to ask him if we could do a session on my Tron. It's a 4900 with a blue gun I KNEW was messed up, but I didn't know how much. Turns out all the guns were rough, but the blue went off like a lightning storm in the tube, took something like 30 cooks to get it to were the meters looked right. The green was also a bit messy, but nothing like the blue was.
We fire the machine back up and I quickly adjusted the color levels... ... holy... shit. The monitor looks brand fucking new. This is the original monitor for the machine... and it looks like it just came from the factory. Granted, I need to do focus a little more, but without taking the shroud out, we dialed it in as best we could.
I've never been able to get the grids on the bugs, traces on the tanks, and blocks on the cycles to show without turning the color up so far that some of the other colors messed up (grey became VERY blueish, etc etc).
So, I've decided that before I get any more games (hopefully) I'll get one of these and redo every tube I have any doubts about.
World of difference... I literally can't believe how good it looks now. I'm actually giddy about it.
After watching him clean his 4600 on Frogger... I had to ask him if we could do a session on my Tron. It's a 4900 with a blue gun I KNEW was messed up, but I didn't know how much. Turns out all the guns were rough, but the blue went off like a lightning storm in the tube, took something like 30 cooks to get it to were the meters looked right. The green was also a bit messy, but nothing like the blue was.
We fire the machine back up and I quickly adjusted the color levels... ... holy... shit. The monitor looks brand fucking new. This is the original monitor for the machine... and it looks like it just came from the factory. Granted, I need to do focus a little more, but without taking the shroud out, we dialed it in as best we could.
I've never been able to get the grids on the bugs, traces on the tanks, and blocks on the cycles to show without turning the color up so far that some of the other colors messed up (grey became VERY blueish, etc etc).
So, I've decided that before I get any more games (hopefully) I'll get one of these and redo every tube I have any doubts about.
World of difference... I literally can't believe how good it looks now. I'm actually giddy about it.

