Terminator 2 Pickup (And issues)

@mecha thank you I'll take a look once I'm done fixing the traces on the sound board

@quickray yup I was reading your posts on your restore it was very helpful. And oh yeah that rust is coming off 😆. Well I wanted to get it sand blasted and powder coated but the two shops I reached out to said they charge minimum $100 and $150 for just the sand blasting. So I opted to use a metal wire drill bit and finished with 120 grit sand paper for just the boxes. I plan on spraying it with Rust-Oleum automotive primer, a couple of coats, and then sanding with I think 400 grit sand paper. Believe me I would love to have the powder coat finish but can't justify the entry price of sand blasting. And yes I plan on replacing the CPO since the T1000's face is not going to recover from that scratch, I appreciate the recommendation, I'm going to order it today.
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@ArcadeTechGW you're totally right and they've been dangling for 26 years, I'll beep them out 👍

@JukeboxJon I think our cabinets came from the same person (or maybe it's stock?). Yeah it made me cringe for a second and I do plan on adding female connectors and shrink tubing. If you read above I thought these switches had an EMI ring but turns out it was the rubber stoppers that disintegrated and turned rock hard 😂. Yup I checked the gears and they're all good and have all their teeth. Interesting enough this cabinet only has 48,000 coins on its meter, seems pretty low for this game. Did you apply grease to the gear locations and the axel by chance?
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Reading through your comments. I put white lithium grease on the gears when I was finished.

Good luck with everything. It's coming along. These T2 cabs are a lot of work.
 
@JukeboxJon I think our cabinets came from the same person (or maybe it's stock?). Yeah it made me cringe for a second and I do plan on adding female connectors and shrink tubing. If you read above I thought these switches had an EMI ring but turns out it was the rubber stoppers that disintegrated and turned rock hard 😂. Yup I checked the gears and they're all good and have all their teeth. Interesting enough this cabinet only has 48,000 coins on its meter, seems pretty low for this game. Did you apply grease to the gear locations and the axel by chance?
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I did not because I had to replace all the big white gears with new ones from happ, the replacements all seemed to of been black or they were reproductions meant for Rev X and they are Nylon so technically they should not need greased and grease usually just attracts dirt and other shit. Thats just my opinion though would have to ask others if they have and if it worked ok.

I see someone else mention white lithium grease I suppose a tad bit of that probably wouldnt hurt.
 
@mecha thank you I'll take a look once I'm done fixing the traces on the sound board

@quickray yup I was reading your posts on your restore it was very helpful. And oh yeah that rust is coming off 😆. Well I wanted to get it sand blasted and powder coated but the two shops I reached out to said they charge minimum $100 and $150 for just the sand blasting. So I opted to use a metal wire drill bit and finished with 120 grit sand paper for just the boxes. I plan on spraying it with Rust-Oleum automotive primer, a couple of coats, and then sanding with I think 400 grit sand paper. Believe me I would love to have the powder coat finish but can't justify the entry price of sand blasting. And yes I plan on replacing the CPO since the T1000's face is not going to recover from that scratch, I appreciate the recommendation, I'm going to order it today.
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@ArcadeTechGW you're totally right and they've been dangling for 26 years, I'll beep them out 👍

@JukeboxJon I think our cabinets came from the same person (or maybe it's stock?). Yeah it made me cringe for a second and I do plan on adding female connectors and shrink tubing. If you read above I thought these switches had an EMI ring but turns out it was the rubber stoppers that disintegrated and turned rock hard 😂. Yup I checked the gears and they're all good and have all their teeth. Interesting enough this cabinet only has 48,000 coins on its meter, seems pretty low for this game. Did you apply grease to the gear locations and the axel by chance?
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That ground braid should be tied to the green wire ground. A missing ground can cause problems like this too.

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Latest update, the sound issue is now fixed! I replaced all the caps from the sound board and as I mentioned before I checked for continuity between the OKI chip and U12/U13 ROM chips. The only issue was pin D7 (pin 16 from the OKI data sheet or pin 5 counting pins from bottom up on the right side of the OKI chip). The trace coming from pin D7 runs underneath cap 103 and to a via on the other side of resister R89. This trace was severed underneath C103 due to corrosion and seems this is a common issue. I applied a 30 awg jumper wire from pin D7 to the via. Testing the sound board out after, I finally have clear audio and the issue of all the sound bites playing at the title screen has been resolved 👍
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As for the cosmetics, I removed all the rust and paint from the gun boxes and mechanical assemblies. For the gun boxes and the mounting plates I sprayed on three coats of "Rust-Oleum automotive primer and filler." For the gun boxes I sanded down each side with 200 and 400 grit sand paper. I then used fusion satin black spray paint adding 4 coats in total and sealed it with 3 coats of Rust-Oleum matte clear coat. Of course it's not powder coating but I'm pretty happy with the results.6880.jpg

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After cleaning the gun housings, the outside surface was extremely faded. I know the guns more than likely just had a plastic finish to them but for the sake of aesthetics, time and easy application I used Rust-Oleum Black Gloss Epoxy Enamel spray paint. Again for me the results came out great, I feel like it's not exact but closer to the original finish with this spray paint and didnt require for me to add a clear coat.

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So for now I'm just waiting for the CPO to come in before I remount the gun assemblies but in all its coming along 👍
 
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Nice resto so far! I just worked on this game 2 days ago at a friend's house. Luckily, it was only a flyback issue on his K7000 so we just need to swap it to get it back up and running.

Coincidentally, @Petekazel posted a Terminator 2 resto where he needed to weld that piece back onto one of the guns. Worth watching to learn how many issues this game has (in general for all owners).


Del
 
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Nice resto so far! I just worked on this game 2 days ago at a friend's house. Luckily, it was only a flyback issue on his K7000 so we just need to swap it to get it back up and running.

Coincidentally, @Petekazel posted a Terminator 2 resto where he needed to weld that piece back onto one of the guns. Worth watching to learn how many issues this game has (in generals for all owners).


Del
Yeah the monitor is the next thing I'm going to work on after I get the guns working. The K7000 that came with this cabinet is not powering on at all, totally dead. The next puzzle to solve 😁
 
Nice resto so far! I just worked on this game 2 days ago at a friend's house. Luckily, it was only a flyback issue on his K7000 so we just need to swap it to get it back up and running.

Coincidentally, @Petekazel posted a Terminator 2 resto where he needed to weld that piece back onto one of the guns. Worth watching to learn how many issues this game has (in general for all owners).


Del
That's a lot awesome work in your video, I'm going to have to steal your idea of adding the switches to turn on/off the recoil. If my wife loses sleep because the recoil is firing off, I'm going to get my ass kicked 😆
 
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