Tommorrow should be interesting

shardian

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I sold some machines 2 days ago, and the new owner will be picking up tommorrow. I've been working on them pretty hard since then.

Sold:
Outrun: had to bondo a top corner that was busted, then repaint the whole side. Also went through 2 faulty arcade marquee light assemblies before breaking down and buying a $7 Walmart special. Set it up for free play, cleaned it, and it is ready to hit the road

Charlie's Angels pinball: Cleaned the inside thoroughly. Replaced some bad bulbs, but then had others mysteriously go out in the process. WTF?!? I have to pull the driver board tomorrow to check the light drivers. Lost a mount screw for the bonus lights inside the spotless interior. Seriously, how does that happen? That always happens to me. Hit myself with 120volts on the live side of the power brick not once, but twice while looking for the damn thing. Mental note: there is still hot wire inside a pin with the cord plugged in, but power switch killed.

48/1 multicade: Just because 1942 looks identical to Jamma, doesn't mean it is jamma. I sold this before ever setting it up for the 48/1 because I had a false memory of there being a JAMMA adaptor in my 1942 cab. I've been trying to procure a spare JAMMA harness from the local gameroom crew all week with no luck. I have to strip out the wiring in my Xevious to get this game ready in time tommorrow. Luckily the cab is already nice and clean.


Bonus news:
After I get these games out of here and swim in my money for a while, I get to go down to a friend's house in Huntington and pick up a brand new 19" Happ monitor...for FREE! I hope to also get positive news about a High Speed pin I looked at a few months ago, but didn't have money/room for. I have both in surplus now.
 
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Awesome-ness my friend. OUTRUN...Did you repaint the entire side, meaning no sideart? New sideart? Or just paint a small section?
 
Awesome-ness my friend. OUTRUN...Did you repaint the entire side, meaning no sideart? New sideart? Or just paint a small section?

No side art at all - just black sides. The spray paint I used didn't quite match in sheen to the original gloss, so I just hit the whole side.
 
No side art at all - just black sides. The spray paint I used didn't quite match in sheen to the original gloss, so I just hit the whole side.

Ahh, I see. Coolio. Games like that are near impossible to buy new sideart for if you're gonna sell them anyway. Its tough to recoup the nearly $200 for sideart on an average sell of $150-$300. Man we had like 3 or 4 of these cabs at one point in time. We honestly can't give them away without the monitor or boards. I guess noone wants to try to build a mame-driver? oh well. I digress. Good job.
 
I sold it for $200 to get it out the door in the package deal. Basically broke even on it after the parts I had to buy. The game has not aged well at all.
 
I have High Speed, and I highly recommend adding it to your collection.

I haven't forgot about your pedals, I should get to them tomorrow. :)
 
I sold it for $200 to get it out the door in the package deal. Basically broke even on it after the parts I had to buy. The game has not aged well at all.

Looking for a job in this field? Call me 30 plus a year plus benies
 
Ahhh, bennies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzedrine

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Man, am I glad that this is a done deal now. I had the fingerboard wires on the wrong sides, so I had to pull them all out and swap them. That wasn't too bad though. I taped all the wires in order, heated and pulled them out, then just moved them up/down to the other row of solder pads. It took about 30 minutes to fix.

Went up to their house yesterday to install the 48/1. Adapter worked great - my solder skills went up 3 exp levels. ;)

Showed the guy around the three games and pointed out misc. stuff too keep an eye on, what not to touch, etc.

Their kids were awesome. My wife says they were 10 year old triplets, but I would have never guessed triplets could look so incredibly un-alike (2 boys, 1 girl, different hair colors, three different heights, 1 chubby, 1 normal, one rail thin, etc)! Must be test tube triplets. Anyways, they LOVED the games. The dad pointed to a pile of sleeping bags while I was there, and told me the kids camped out next to the games all night they were so excited.

Now I set off onto the excellent adventure of buying MORE games. :D
 
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