The following will detail the
conversion/restoration of this cabinet.
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Okay, We're going to work
with this 1-player cabinet I've had sitting in the garage for a
while. It had a homemade 'exerion' marquee, a monitor with
a broken neck and an unknown jamma board in it. I don't
recognize the artwork, it may be generic, but it's staying just
in case this used to be a classic cab! |
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The control panel had two old leafswitch
buttons and a wico joystick. By the looks of it, it used
to have a trackball and two fire buttons. Well, I'll
replace the wico stick, and put microswitch buttons on the
panel, and cover it with some new overlay material and
plexiglas. That way I'm not changing the layout any more.
If this is a classic, it can be reversed nice and easy! |
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I had a nice surprise
when I opened it up, a mouse nest! The mouse was long
gone, but it had made quite a home out of the clippings from my
lawn mower. I cleared most of it out by hand, then took
the shop vac to it, and bleached it up good. |
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The interior was dirty, but not too bad.
Nothing a brush, shop vac and bleach can't fix. I'll use
the jamma harness that's in there, and leave the power supply
and isolating transformer. No need to take those out. I'll
even leave that boardset in there. |
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Since I'm always more
comfortable using a computer monitor for emulation (leave the
working arcade monitors for real machines!), I'll install a
shelf and mouth this 20" monitor. This machine will only
play vertical classics such as pacman and galaga, so this will
be perfect. |
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Another reason I
don't think this cab is a classic: There's no lighting source in
the marquee area. No sign of there ever being one too.
Strange. I'll install a florescent strip in there. I also
ordered fresh t-molding for the edges. |
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I don't think the
pictures showed it, but the original coin door had been kicked
in pretty good, then some one had tried to pry it open, so the
front of the cabinet had a bit of damage and some weak points
around the door opening. So instead of bondo I added some
aluminum strips to reinforce the door. The bottom front of
the cabinet had similar strips, so this fit in. I also
replaced the green start buttons with lighted red ones.
You can also see the paint I used to match up scratches and
damage on the sideart. |
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Here you can see the marquee light (temporary
printer-paper marquee in place). I've ordered a print and
will place that between the sheets of plexi.
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No graphics under this panel, but they could
be added qiute easily. Very simple. One joystick,
two buttons. Just what he wanted, so it works out well.
There will be maybe a hundred games on here that will work with
that configuration.
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In the back, you can't really make out, but
there is the monitor mount, PC, and home-grade wiring for the
rear power switch.
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i will try and remember to take a shot of
this in my friend's basement "lounge". It fit in well with
a pool table, pinball and one of those "break your wrist"
punching machines.
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