It's time for another restoration thread journey!
Just yesterday, Star Rider #1004 rolled into the shop in an enormous crate. I've finally got it unpacked, and boy is it a doozy!
First: The cabinet itself.


The left side of the cabinet (from the player perspective) is pretty good, minus one big scrape. Just a little dirty. The right side of the cabinet is HEAVILY planked. There is no repro available for the star rider art, and I'm afraid I'd make it worse, so the artwork will probably be left as is.
The chair portion of the cabinet seems to be in fairly good shape and has a williams raised letter over/under coin door which is fairly cool. However, as mentioned in another thread, the left handlebar is basically destroyed. I wonder what freaking happened to it. That is a THICK rod to bend.


As we make our way to the back of the machine, popping up the hood (so cool!) we are treated to...
Lots of rat poop. And some PCBs!
Some very.... acid damaged... pcbs...



And yes, because I assume everything was dead anyway, I tried booting it (power is ok).
It definitely doesn't work at all but it looks hella cool (not) doing it!

So. As of now. Here's the list of things I need for this cabinet:
1) PR-8210A Laserdisc Player
2) Star Rider Laserdisc (If I can find a player)
3) Star Rider PIF PCB
4) Rear door (molded plastic wheel.) Anyone got one in a warehouse???
5) Left handlebar because WOW that's borked.
Edit: for whatever reason, all the guts were from unit 1265, but the cabinet is unit 1004.
Just yesterday, Star Rider #1004 rolled into the shop in an enormous crate. I've finally got it unpacked, and boy is it a doozy!
First: The cabinet itself.


The left side of the cabinet (from the player perspective) is pretty good, minus one big scrape. Just a little dirty. The right side of the cabinet is HEAVILY planked. There is no repro available for the star rider art, and I'm afraid I'd make it worse, so the artwork will probably be left as is.
The chair portion of the cabinet seems to be in fairly good shape and has a williams raised letter over/under coin door which is fairly cool. However, as mentioned in another thread, the left handlebar is basically destroyed. I wonder what freaking happened to it. That is a THICK rod to bend.


As we make our way to the back of the machine, popping up the hood (so cool!) we are treated to...
Lots of rat poop. And some PCBs!
Some very.... acid damaged... pcbs...



And yes, because I assume everything was dead anyway, I tried booting it (power is ok).
It definitely doesn't work at all but it looks hella cool (not) doing it!

So. As of now. Here's the list of things I need for this cabinet:
1) PR-8210A Laserdisc Player
2) Star Rider Laserdisc (If I can find a player)
3) Star Rider PIF PCB
4) Rear door (molded plastic wheel.) Anyone got one in a warehouse???
5) Left handlebar because WOW that's borked.
Edit: for whatever reason, all the guts were from unit 1265, but the cabinet is unit 1004.
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