I like reading others' restore threads so thought I'd share this.
Galaga is a classic. White Galagas are factory converted Bosconians with Galaga art over the Bosconian art... and since I have a Bosconian, I sought one out for a matching pair. It took me quite some time to find this. Seemingly the most common game was the very last on my checklist to obtain.
The situation:
-Game not playing, power supply out.
-Monitor buzzing and blinking like a bad neon sign. Geometry distorted.
-Cabinet flooring was caved in and broken wheels were bolted on. The bottom edges of the MDF cabinet were swelled and fluffed out.
-Glass bezel was missing inch size chunks of paint. Control panel bent and overlay shredded.
-Coin door rusty and spray painted over the 25 cent lights and label.
-Front of cab cracked and entirely painted over with a black and green speckled paint.
-PCB having issues.
The cure:
-Fixed flooring with L-brackets and screws, new casters installed.
-NOS bezel, NOS marquee and NOS control panel overlay obtained for install. Rebuilt joystick and buttons. Rebuilt coin door and mechanisms.
-I recapped and reflowed the k4600 monitor, reconverged it and used monitor strips.
-Cleaned and reseated all PCB chips and installed a switching power supply.
-Managed to save original siding and original side art with touch up pens and paint, and used bondo to reestablish missing chunks on corners and front of game.
-Stripped and painted front of cab back to black and installed new kick plate and kick plate art.
-Cleaned PCB chips and dialed in voltage to finally get a solid playing board. Added the enhancement kit and set it to slow fire default. I was never aware the fast fire version existed until a couple years ago.
As I typed in my KLOV biography when I first joined:
"I can still smell the pizza when playing Galaga from back in the day. Let's keep those memories alive.
"
Here are photos of some of the steps of the restore process.
Galaga is a classic. White Galagas are factory converted Bosconians with Galaga art over the Bosconian art... and since I have a Bosconian, I sought one out for a matching pair. It took me quite some time to find this. Seemingly the most common game was the very last on my checklist to obtain.
The situation:
-Game not playing, power supply out.
-Monitor buzzing and blinking like a bad neon sign. Geometry distorted.
-Cabinet flooring was caved in and broken wheels were bolted on. The bottom edges of the MDF cabinet were swelled and fluffed out.
-Glass bezel was missing inch size chunks of paint. Control panel bent and overlay shredded.
-Coin door rusty and spray painted over the 25 cent lights and label.
-Front of cab cracked and entirely painted over with a black and green speckled paint.
-PCB having issues.
The cure:
-Fixed flooring with L-brackets and screws, new casters installed.
-NOS bezel, NOS marquee and NOS control panel overlay obtained for install. Rebuilt joystick and buttons. Rebuilt coin door and mechanisms.
-I recapped and reflowed the k4600 monitor, reconverged it and used monitor strips.
-Cleaned and reseated all PCB chips and installed a switching power supply.
-Managed to save original siding and original side art with touch up pens and paint, and used bondo to reestablish missing chunks on corners and front of game.
-Stripped and painted front of cab back to black and installed new kick plate and kick plate art.
-Cleaned PCB chips and dialed in voltage to finally get a solid playing board. Added the enhancement kit and set it to slow fire default. I was never aware the fast fire version existed until a couple years ago.
As I typed in my KLOV biography when I first joined:
"I can still smell the pizza when playing Galaga from back in the day. Let's keep those memories alive.
Here are photos of some of the steps of the restore process.


