Sega Turbo upright restoration

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Picked up a working Sega Turbo upright awhile ago, just now able to get a thread going on it.

Why are these cabinets so filthy? In addition to the upright, I also have a complete Sega Turbo mini in storage that is dirtier than this one (complete with mud dauber nests in it). I'll probably be fed up with all the dirt on this upright that I'll just sell the Sega Turbo mini to someone else that wants to tackle it :)

I love this game, played it a lot as a kid. The subwoofer on this thing is what sold me on the game growing up.

First up is the condition of the game on first pickup.

Monitor needed some serious adjustment and a cap kit
 

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After monitor adjustment and cap kit

Notice the jagged lines along the side of the road? In the manual, it looks like some of the roms map to the road edges, when I get to the PCB checks, I'll have to see if any of the legs need cleaned, etc.
 

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Next time to strip everything out of the cabinet so I can clean all the crap/mold out of it and bondo/paint.
 

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Subscribed to this. Please keep it going. I have one of these sitting in my garage that needs the same treatment. Hopefully seeing yours all nice and fixed up will inspire me to get started on it.

Cheers.
Zoltan
 
ditto! nice work so far. the biggest problem I had was sourcing missing parts (mostly sorted now) and rebuilding the wiring harness (still to do) as it had been converted to pole position.

also thought I would link in my thread on the shifter knob art as you will probably be looking for that at some stage!...http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showpost.php?p=2874549&postcount=1
 
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ditto! nice work so far. the biggest problem I had was sourcing missing parts (mostly sorted now) and rebuilding the wiring harness (still to do) as it had been converted to pole position.

also thought I would link in my thread on the shifter knob art as you will probably be looking for that at some stage!...http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showpost.php?p=2874549&postcount=1

Wow, I have a Pole Position, cant imagine the Turbo harness and cabinet being used for Pole Position.

I believe bbeckwith on here in Kansas City is parting out his Turbo, might see if he wants to sell you his wiring harness

When I get to the point of cleaning up the steering wheel, I'll scan the sega center decal, my shifter knob has the decal, but the image is totally worn off. I can measure it for size though.
 
Found out that the 33 year old glue for the top back part of the cabinet was no longer holding and one side was loose, so unscrewed and will work on sanding the old glue off and re-gluing it back on once the cabinet dries out.

Sprayed a ton of simple green and a lot of paper towels to get all the crud off, also tore down the cabinet as much as possible to prep for sanding/bondo/repainting of some of the black areas.
 

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Best of luck! It's a tricky restore because of the art and t-molding.

Agreed, t-molding and sideart are in good shape, so leaving those alone (and masking them off).

I'm lucky to have a working PCB, I see these games parted out a lot due to PCB not working, speaker surround disintegrating ( I'm going to keep original speaker and see about installing a new speaker surround), and these things are like dirt magnets.

The cabinet is decent though due to quality build/material, compared to my Pole Position cabinet which needs the sides rebuilt.
 
Yeah, these are pretty durable. If you need a new sub, those are pretty cheap. It's the sound board that goes bad a lot. I still get a bunch of feedback. Sometime, when I'm bored, I'll start swapping out some caps and see if that fixes it.
 
Not a lot of time lately to work on this (exterior house repairs have priority before it gets colder).

Did squeeze in some time to work on the following.

Taped off the t-molding. I've not seen anyone reproduce this anywhere, probably not worthwhile to make and not worth the cost for little demand.

The metal trim piece above the foot petal area was completely painted over with black, and this piece is nailed to the cabinet with small nails. I didnt want to pull the nails and risk damaging anything, so I hand removed (wearing solvent resistant gloves) the black paint with goof off, then used #0000 steel wool, then metal polish.

Bottom metal trim was in good shape, but some black overspray near the back (I assume from a previous owner), so had to do the same (goof off to hand remove the black paint, #0000 steel wool, then metal polish).

Now that those pieces are finished, will tape off all the metal so I can repaint the black parts of the cabinet.

Top part of the cabinet is solid now, had to sand all the old glue off, wood glue (max) and clamp, then screw it back to the sides.
 

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Not a lot of time to work on this lately, but stripped down control panel to clean it and start removing rust/repainting areas.

Bondo applied to holes in the front of the cabinet where an ash tray was, painted the black areas, waiting for paint to dry before applying second coat.

Weather in St Louis sucks lately, but today was actually above 50F and lower humidity so I could paint. Using lights to keep temps up.
 

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Looking good. I had to drill out the anchors for the pedal on mine, they were totally rusted together. Had to McGuyver it back on, with ss hardware of course.
 
Looking good. I had to drill out the anchors for the pedal on mine, they were totally rusted together. Had to McGuyver it back on, with ss hardware of course.

Wasn't sure if the pedal anchors on mine were going to make it off either, stripped the heads getting them off, went to Home Depot to get a replacement set ( metric bolts ).
 
Mostly prep work tonight for painting tomorrow (decent weather this weekend).

All black metal pieces are sanded lightly, working on stripping the gas pedal down, and also re-painting the rusted edges of the control panel gauges.
 

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Anyone remember on Turbo if these silver metal pieces around the coin door slots/chute are supposed to have some black on them?

I'd rather not paint them, but not sure if they are supposed to be all silver (no black). If all silver, may just by hand use some goof off to remove the black paint that is there.
 

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