Well it was Sunday and Joe (KatanaJoe), Trey (Punksareheretostay) and myself met up at the operator's site documented in part one (link)
I'll have new pictures up tonight.
We spent some time at the main office and picked up a bunch of interesting parts. Joe picked up a couple of interesting countertop machines and a Pole Position steering wheel. Trey found a Cat Box and some CPS2 games. And I picked up some IC trays full of parts, some Williams 7 digit pinball displays, some StarWars yoke gears and most importantly a pair of Nintendo K6510 keys so I can open the Donkey Kong cocktail. In fact when I found the keys I called everybody over, showed them the keys and said we could leave now. After some verbal abuse, we all went back to picking through stuff.
This trip, we had the opportunity to look in a new building and it was really sad. This building had probably the worst water damage yet. One of the first things we saw was a Pole Position II cockpit that had collapsed over onto a Pole Position that was melting. It was gut wrenching seeing the carnage. While poking through the remains, Trey picked up a few boards, I picked up a TMNT in Time board and Joe picked up some splinters.
We also took a look through the first warehouse we had gone to and while there, I took the time to try the keys in a couple Nintendo cocktails. The first one was a DKjr cocktail and the keys worked perfectly. When I lifted the top my fingers went right through the wooden part of the top and just lifted the glass. I was really sorry I even tried. The inside was pretty corroded once we managed to get the wood part lifted so we could look inside. One cocktail down and one more to try. The other DK cocktail wasn't quite as bad, but still had a lot of internal corrosion, so it was toast as well.
Trey helped Joe try to recover some pieces for his Centipede restore but wasn't able to get the coindoor off the melting cabinet, the bolts were completely rusted.
The third stop was the former tittie bar and Trey pulled a Dynamo cab with Xmen-COTA in it. Joe decided to go for the pidgeon redecorated Outrun cab with no board (if anyone has a working outrun board, drop Joe a PM).
The last stop was the same last building from the previous spelunking. Je got his harness out of the Astro Blaster. I picked up a bunch of locks and keys, most of which will be in the for sale section soon. I salvaged about 30 or so Fort Lock double bitted locks with keys, most with high security cams on them. According to our guide, they were the original locks from the games and they had been replaced with keyed alike locks when they were put out on route. Otherwise the guys doing the collections would have been carrying 10 pounds of keys for all the various locks. Oh and we found my headlamp that Joe left on the last trip. The light was still on!!?!! Those LED flashlights are amazing.
So overall, was it worth a 4 hour drive each way? Probably. I now have my Nintendo keys and a bunch of cool chips to play with. Joe has a couple of countertop games, including one that either called me a "Space Ace" or a "Space Case" (the voice synthesis was pretty bad). Trey has a new cabinet and some CPS2 sets to play with. And we all are probably going to need our tetanus shots updated along with any other vaccines we can think of.
I know, POIDH. The pictures will be posted tonight. I am at work and I downloaded them to my home computer last night.
ken
PS: any misspellings/grammatical mistakes were purely intentional.
I'll have new pictures up tonight.
We spent some time at the main office and picked up a bunch of interesting parts. Joe picked up a couple of interesting countertop machines and a Pole Position steering wheel. Trey found a Cat Box and some CPS2 games. And I picked up some IC trays full of parts, some Williams 7 digit pinball displays, some StarWars yoke gears and most importantly a pair of Nintendo K6510 keys so I can open the Donkey Kong cocktail. In fact when I found the keys I called everybody over, showed them the keys and said we could leave now. After some verbal abuse, we all went back to picking through stuff.
This trip, we had the opportunity to look in a new building and it was really sad. This building had probably the worst water damage yet. One of the first things we saw was a Pole Position II cockpit that had collapsed over onto a Pole Position that was melting. It was gut wrenching seeing the carnage. While poking through the remains, Trey picked up a few boards, I picked up a TMNT in Time board and Joe picked up some splinters.
We also took a look through the first warehouse we had gone to and while there, I took the time to try the keys in a couple Nintendo cocktails. The first one was a DKjr cocktail and the keys worked perfectly. When I lifted the top my fingers went right through the wooden part of the top and just lifted the glass. I was really sorry I even tried. The inside was pretty corroded once we managed to get the wood part lifted so we could look inside. One cocktail down and one more to try. The other DK cocktail wasn't quite as bad, but still had a lot of internal corrosion, so it was toast as well.
Trey helped Joe try to recover some pieces for his Centipede restore but wasn't able to get the coindoor off the melting cabinet, the bolts were completely rusted.
The third stop was the former tittie bar and Trey pulled a Dynamo cab with Xmen-COTA in it. Joe decided to go for the pidgeon redecorated Outrun cab with no board (if anyone has a working outrun board, drop Joe a PM).
The last stop was the same last building from the previous spelunking. Je got his harness out of the Astro Blaster. I picked up a bunch of locks and keys, most of which will be in the for sale section soon. I salvaged about 30 or so Fort Lock double bitted locks with keys, most with high security cams on them. According to our guide, they were the original locks from the games and they had been replaced with keyed alike locks when they were put out on route. Otherwise the guys doing the collections would have been carrying 10 pounds of keys for all the various locks. Oh and we found my headlamp that Joe left on the last trip. The light was still on!!?!! Those LED flashlights are amazing.
So overall, was it worth a 4 hour drive each way? Probably. I now have my Nintendo keys and a bunch of cool chips to play with. Joe has a couple of countertop games, including one that either called me a "Space Ace" or a "Space Case" (the voice synthesis was pretty bad). Trey has a new cabinet and some CPS2 sets to play with. And we all are probably going to need our tetanus shots updated along with any other vaccines we can think of.
I know, POIDH. The pictures will be posted tonight. I am at work and I downloaded them to my home computer last night.
ken
PS: any misspellings/grammatical mistakes were purely intentional.


