When 2 Tron's go to war...One is all that you can score

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When 2 Tron's go to war...One is all that you can score

Took a trip to South Philadelphia with StudioPaul to pick up "two nonworking trons, one with slight water damage". What took place from there is stuff of legend...

So turns out the guy is an old op with several buildings stashed around. This one building was leaky and let's just say I hope we don't get sick and die from the mold. Never seen so much in my life!

The "slightly water damaged" Tron disintegrated on contact - see the photos. The other one was in pretty decent shape actually. Too bad I forgot my tie-downs in my mad rush to get there - again see photos.

The warehouse had some nice titles and we plan to go back for more - 2 asteroids, moon patrol, stargate, pole position II, monaco gp, cosmic alien (NICE!) and 3 converted taito cabs (1 zoo keeper with art intact!). Plus more we couldn't see. If we manage to grab these you guys will be first to know & have crack at anything we don't want.

While driving to drop off Tron we stopped to grab some rope and tie the game down. Paul tells me "You know I'd really like a Defender" and like a genie granting a wish a guy walks up to us and said "Hi I have a Defender in my house if you want it for $250". (100% TRUE!!!!!!!!!)

We made plans to pick up Defender later in the day and went to drop off the Tron at my house. Grabbed lunch and headed to get Defender. Pushed my luck on my busted gas gauge and we ran out of gas on the PA Turnpike! Paul couldn't wait for his Defender so he ran to nearest gas station while I called AAA. Like a photo finish Paul returned with gas at the moment AAA arrived with some.

We got to the Defender which is in really really nice shape save for a willis overlay and 1 bad ram. Loaded it up and headed to Paul's recording studio (hence StudioPaul) in Manayunk. Got his Defender in and working. Took a vid board from the water damaged tron and fixed his Tron and the day was complete. Now to work on my new Tron...

Whew.
 

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Craziest Tron/Defender

It was like an arm wrestle of Good vs Evil...every time something was going bad..very very bad...a defender showed up!
 

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Yeah, slight water damage! lol

Did you save that wire harness hangin outta the Tron guts???
 
hopefully you pulled any essential parts out before the cabs fell apart. Maybe you could transplant the parts to a new cab for DPtwiz.
 
salvage tron

I was wanting to salvage the power supply and harness , but it was so rotten and probably corroded in the bottom i passed.
ScottMaggie was so freaked out by the mold that I think he got several mold symptoms just by looking at it!

However I should have took pics of him climbing over the arcade games..that guy is a picker!

Arkanerd.. the first sickness is close to what i have..I have more crack addict symptoms...Tron Blindness!
 
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trons...

Once cab is solid (just tipped over in the trailer). We took all we could off the trashed one - boards, shroud, glass, controls, coin door. The transformer block was destroyed and we left the wiring as we were ready to puke from the mold.

Paul just needed a working vid board for a Tron he already had so now his is working fine. I got the complete Tron and the extra parts to try to make myself a working one. We will sell off the extra stuff once mine is done. Could take awhile.


Paul - as for the climbing: I could smell the zoo keeper cabinet across the room...!
 
beer time

looking for that motorola 6808 chip for defender..then im off to go drink beer and play em!
not sure if MC6808P will work in its place...anyone selling them?

whos up for beer and vids?

When we going for zoo keeper?
 
Defender

Paul I have a MC6808P and yes that is the same as a 6808. It's used but if I saved it it's probably good.

Pin Wiz - we will def let you know!
 
yepper

That was them on craigslist. I really can't tell you how foul the mold was. Inches think in some areas.

Totally destroyed that 1 Tron a Burgertime and some others. A real shame.
 
Thank you

To Pimpbot5000 and Pac-Fan for getting the reference on my orig post. I was starting to feel old.

By the way: Never look up the original video for "Relax" - The one from England not the US version unless you want to puke. ;0)
 
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