warmachine
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I think I might be developing a fetish for these things.
I traded my vectrex and games and made a 130 mile round trip for this cabinet.
As soon as I saw it, I instantly thought how cool it would be to have a counter
top sinistar machine, but including the coors light bowling board I've had for a while,
I now have 2 games that I can play with this cabinet.
It's also my first trackball cabinet, so I'm starting to think twice about trying
to convert it.
At first, I thought it could have originally been a pit boss or trivia whiz, but
I don't see any tags or labels indicating that this was converted from something else.
Also, This seems to be the control panels original setup since I don't see any other
holes on the underside.
Perhaps this is just a generic cabinet.
It didn't come with any keys, so I had to drill out the locks to open it up.
It's pretty nasty inside.
I'm going to remove it's guts and give it a good scrubbing.
I think it's got a 13" monitor.
It's got a fair amount of burn-in and probably needs a cap kit.
There's some gaussing on the bottom of the tube which could be caused
by the unshielded speaker close by and the picture has slight waves scrolling
vertically across the screen which could be related to the slight interference
I'm hearing from the speaker. I guess I'll find out.
There are also some strange locks on it that I haven't seen before.
The locks for the control panel have a pin built in that inserts into the control panel
and holds it down when locked.
The lock on the back door is also different, but I think a standard lock could be made
to work in it's place.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/war2thegrave/PA170074.jpg
After some TLC, it will be sitting next to my megatouch machine,
I think they'll make a good pair, unless I get another one anyway.
My wife was a bit surprised that I was trading the vectrex and I
think I'm going to miss it a bit, but I've got a cool project to work on,
so maybe I won't miss it too much.
I traded my vectrex and games and made a 130 mile round trip for this cabinet.
As soon as I saw it, I instantly thought how cool it would be to have a counter
top sinistar machine, but including the coors light bowling board I've had for a while,
I now have 2 games that I can play with this cabinet.
It's also my first trackball cabinet, so I'm starting to think twice about trying
to convert it.
At first, I thought it could have originally been a pit boss or trivia whiz, but
I don't see any tags or labels indicating that this was converted from something else.
Also, This seems to be the control panels original setup since I don't see any other
holes on the underside.
Perhaps this is just a generic cabinet.
It didn't come with any keys, so I had to drill out the locks to open it up.
It's pretty nasty inside.
I'm going to remove it's guts and give it a good scrubbing.
I think it's got a 13" monitor.
It's got a fair amount of burn-in and probably needs a cap kit.
There's some gaussing on the bottom of the tube which could be caused
by the unshielded speaker close by and the picture has slight waves scrolling
vertically across the screen which could be related to the slight interference
I'm hearing from the speaker. I guess I'll find out.
There are also some strange locks on it that I haven't seen before.
The locks for the control panel have a pin built in that inserts into the control panel
and holds it down when locked.
The lock on the back door is also different, but I think a standard lock could be made
to work in it's place.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/war2thegrave/PA170074.jpg
After some TLC, it will be sitting next to my megatouch machine,
I think they'll make a good pair, unless I get another one anyway.
My wife was a bit surprised that I was trading the vectrex and I
think I'm going to miss it a bit, but I've got a cool project to work on,
so maybe I won't miss it too much.
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