Yet another captain's chair post

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Well folks it's mamed. The computer is gutted and were the pcb's were. New good quality commercial carpet was installed on the base. Now before I get tomatoes thrown out at me this is a dedicated unit. No other games will be played on it. I did replace the old "contact" buttons with new happ controls and the original spinner is functional. Other then the montior slightly different (it has been covered) an untrained eye would never know the difference. The original harness is still in the unit, ninety five percent untouched. I still have some other things I want to do like install micro switches behind the reject buttons to activate the "quarter" going in. I.E. push the reject button and that activates play mode. Will post pics soon. Does anyone know how many of these chairs were made? Now I want to save a real arcade classic...
 
As long as it'd be reasonably easy to get back to original working shape by someone with the monitor/pcb/etc I don't think too many people are going to be tomato-throwing. It's easily restorable, if it's not a massive eyesore and you didn't put 30 different buttons on the panel (thus most people asking about pics, heh) you probably don't need to invest in body armor. :)
 
nope, no new buttons drillled in fact I got the original colors. I will try to get pics tomarrow. Come to think of it I do need to get a black start button.
 
as flames shoot out the monitor Scotty synthesized voice says "I'm givin her all she's got!" "She canna take much more of this!"

Sparks fly of of the cpo and spinner, cause in the 23rd century they forgot circuit breakers...
 
as flames shoot out the monitor Scotty synthesized voice says "I'm givin her all she's got!" "She canna take much more of this!"

Sparks fly of of the cpo and spinner, cause in the 23rd century they forgot circuit breakers...

That would be awesome if the game would have Mccoy's voice say "I am doctor not
a arcade repair man", when the monitor gets too hot.
 
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The only reason your going to get lynched around these parts is for TEXT descriptions of your work with no pics. :D
 
astron belt chair

i have an astron belt chair NOS....front part of game fell off truck when new and delivered...totaled out and was paid...i have kept the chair in the warehouse all these years...i would part with the chair
 
Well folks it's mamed. The computer is gutted and were the pcb's were. New good quality commercial carpet was installed on the base. Now before I get tomatoes thrown out at me this is a dedicated unit. No other games will be played on it. I did replace the old "contact" buttons with new happ controls and the original spinner is functional. Other then the montior slightly different (it has been covered) an untrained eye would never know the difference. The original harness is still in the unit, ninety five percent untouched. I still have some other things I want to do like install micro switches behind the reject buttons to activate the "quarter" going in. I.E. push the reject button and that activates play mode. Will post pics soon. Does anyone know how many of these chairs were made? Now I want to save a real arcade classic...
I did the same exact thing with my Star Trek cockpit... only MAME machine I have. Clean install, nothing hacked or drilled, I got it dead and missing most of the parts with an old dos computer installed in it. Previous owner bought optipac and I-pac and almost had it but couldn't get the spinner to work... thats how I got it. You're right, its hardly noticable that its playing MAME, emulates and feels great. I've got multi-spinner games also playing in mine, the other Sega's like Space Fury and Tac/Scan, Tempest, and a really cool game called Cameltry!

I think as long as the cabinet is not hacked/drilled/damaged and presentable there's no reason that a MAME is a horrible idea on a Star Trek machine... they're horribly unreliable and difficult to repair the stack of boards, the monitors are a fire death trap from what I read. If it weren't for finishing the MAME job on my cockpit with a newer computer I still would have not played it to this day looking for parts! I figure someday if I find a complete/descent upright Star Trek I will gut it and use the parts for the cockpit to turn it back original, but until then I actually want to play and enjoy the thing and buy MAIMING mine it actually saved the cabinet from an uncertain fate.

KUDOS! But we need some pics!!
 
Bigtime and apparently they are very unreliable. Plus I couldn't afford the ones with the boards in it.

i did that when i had my seawolf. had a bad boardset and an on it's way out monitor, and maming it dedicated was far more easier and less costly then waiting forever to pay a bunch to get it fixed would've cost.
 
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